default n help This option enables generic access to platform level persistent storage via "pstore" filesystem that can be mounted as /dev/pstore. Only useful if you have a platform level driver that registers with pstore to provide the data, so you probably should just go say "Y" (or "M") to a platform specific persistent store driver (e.g. ACPI_APEI on X86) which will select this for you. If you don't have a platform persistent store driver, say N.
config PSTORE_RAM tristate "Log panic/oops to a RAM buffer" depends on HAS_IOMEM depends on PSTORE default n help This enables panic and oops messages to be logged to a circular buffer in RAM where it can be read back at some later point. Note that for historical reasons, the module will be named "ramoops.ko". For more information, see Documentation/ramoops.txt.