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Diffstat (limited to 'drivers/dma')
| -rw-r--r-- | drivers/dma/Kconfig | 8 |
1 files changed, 5 insertions, 3 deletions
diff --git a/drivers/dma/Kconfig b/drivers/dma/Kconfig index 6a7d25fc247..c46b7c219ee 100644 --- a/drivers/dma/Kconfig +++ b/drivers/dma/Kconfig @@ -3,11 +3,13 @@ # menuconfig DMADEVICES - bool "DMA Offload Engine support" + bool "DMA Engine support" depends on (PCI && X86) || ARCH_IOP32X || ARCH_IOP33X || ARCH_IOP13XX help - Intel(R) offload engines enable offloading memory copies in the - network stack and RAID operations in the MD driver. + DMA engines can do asynchronous data transfers without + involving the host CPU. Currently, this framework can be + used to offload memory copies in the network stack and + RAID operations in the MD driver. if DMADEVICES |