--- linux-2.6/drivers/dma/Kconfig 2006-09-22 06:20:16.000000000 +0100 +++ linux-2.6/drivers/dma/Kconfig.edited 2006-10-02 19:04:25.000000000 +0100 @@ -8,7 +8,11 @@ config DMA_ENGINE bool "Support for DMA engines" ---help--- DMA engines offload copy operations from the CPU to dedicated - hardware, allowing the copies to happen asynchronously. + hardware, allowing the copies to happen asynchronously. Special + hardware is required for this, currently only the Intel E5000 + chipset is supported, certain RAID controllers might support + this too. Note that this has nothing to do with PCI-DMA in + the first place. comment "DMA Clients"