Re: [PATCH 01/34] AMD IOMMU: add Kconfig entry

[Andi Kleen]

Adrian Bunk <bunk@xxxxxxxxxx> writes:
>
> This tells neither what as IOMMU is nor whether my system actually has 
> one.
>
> Please shortly describe in the help text what an IOMMU is and which
> AMD systems have an IOMMU.
>
> The goal is that a system administrator building a kernel for his system 
> gets enough information for deciding whether to enable or disable this 
> option.

Also it should ideally describe that there is a trade off between
reliability and performance with IOMMU enabled.

-Andi
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