Linux Kernel in a Nutshell

Name

EMBEDDED — Configure standard kernel features (for small systems)

This option allows certain base kernel options and settings to be disabled or tweaked. This is for specialized environments that can tolerate a "non-standard" kernel. This is recommend only for experts, as it is very easy to change the options to create a kernel that will not even boot properly.

On it's own, this option does not do anything except allow you to select other options.