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diff --git a/src/Kconfig b/src/Kconfig
index 273d770a5f..6458037497 100644
--- a/src/Kconfig
+++ b/src/Kconfig
@@ -30,10 +30,15 @@ mainmenu "Coreboot Configuration"
menu "General setup"
config LOCALVERSION
- string "Local version - append to coreboot release"
+ string "Local version string"
help
Append an extra string to the end of the coreboot version.
+ This can be useful if, for instance, you want to append the
+ respective board's hostname or some other identifying string to
+ the coreboot version number, so that you can easily distinguish
+ boot logs of different boards from each other.
+
endmenu
source src/mainboard/Kconfig
@@ -225,10 +230,10 @@ config GFXUMA
# TODO
# menu "Drivers"
-#
+#
# endmenu
-menu "Generated System Tables"
+menu "System tables"
config HAVE_LOW_TABLES
bool
@@ -239,7 +244,7 @@ config HAVE_HIGH_TABLES
default y
config MULTIBOOT
- bool "Add Multiboot tables (for grub2)"
+ bool "Generate Multiboot tables (for GRUB2)"
default n
config HAVE_ACPI_TABLES
@@ -258,16 +263,22 @@ endmenu
menu "Payload"
-config COMPRESSED_PAYLOAD_LZMA
- bool "Use LZMA compression for payloads"
- default yes
-
choice
- prompt "Payload type"
+ prompt "Add a payload"
default PAYLOAD_NONE
+config PAYLOAD_NONE
+ bool "None"
+ help
+ Select this option if you want to create an "empty" coreboot
+ ROM image for a certain mainboard, i.e. a coreboot ROM image
+ which does not yet contain a payload.
+
+ For such an image to be useful, you have to use 'cbfstool'
+ to add a payload to the ROM image later.
+
config PAYLOAD_ELF
- bool "An ELF executable payload file"
+ bool "An ELF executable payload"
help
Select this option if you have a payload image (an ELF file)
which coreboot should run as soon as the basic hardware
@@ -275,15 +286,6 @@ config PAYLOAD_ELF
You will be able to specify the location and file name of the
payload image later.
-config PAYLOAD_NONE
- bool "No payload"
- help
- Select this option if you want to create an "empty" coreboot
- ROM image for a certain mainboard, i.e. a coreboot ROM image
- which does not yet contain a payload.
-
- For such an image to be useful, you have to use the 'cbfs' tool
- to add a payload to the ROM image later.
endchoice
@@ -294,6 +296,15 @@ config FALLBACK_PAYLOAD_FILE
help
The path and filename of the ELF executable file to use as payload.
+# TODO: Defined if no payload? Breaks build?
+config COMPRESSED_PAYLOAD_LZMA
+ bool "Use LZMA compression for payloads"
+ default y
+ depends on PAYLOAD_ELF
+ help
+ In order to reduce the size payloads take up in the ROM chip
+ coreboot can compress them using the LZMA algorithm.
+
endmenu
menu "VGA BIOS"
@@ -319,11 +330,20 @@ config FALLBACK_VGA_BIOS_ID
depends on VGA_BIOS
default "1106,3230"
help
- The ID that would associate your VGA BIOS to your video card.
- (PCI VendorID, PCI Device ID)
+ The comma-separated PCI vendor and device ID that would associate
+ your VGA BIOS to your video card.
+
+ Example: 1106,3230
+
+ In the above example 1106 is the PCI vendor ID (in hex, but without
+ the "0x" prefix) and 3230 specifies the PCI device ID of the
+ video card (also in hex, without "0x" prefix).
endmenu
+menu "Debugging"
+
+# TODO: Better help text and detailed instructions.
config GDB_STUB
bool "GDB debugging support"
default y
@@ -331,3 +351,5 @@ config GDB_STUB
If enabled, you will be able to set breakpoints for gdb debugging.
See src/arch/i386/lib/c_start.S for details.
+endmenu
+