| Linus Torvalds | 1da177e | 2005-04-16 15:20:36 -0700 | [diff] [blame] | 1 |  | 
|  | 2 | menu "Character Devices" | 
|  | 3 |  | 
|  | 4 | config STDERR_CONSOLE | 
|  | 5 | bool "stderr console" | 
|  | 6 | default y | 
|  | 7 | help | 
| Jeff Dike | 4c9e138 | 2007-10-16 01:26:54 -0700 | [diff] [blame] | 8 | console driver which dumps all printk messages to stderr. | 
| Linus Torvalds | 1da177e | 2005-04-16 15:20:36 -0700 | [diff] [blame] | 9 |  | 
|  | 10 | config STDIO_CONSOLE | 
|  | 11 | bool | 
|  | 12 | default y | 
|  | 13 |  | 
|  | 14 | config SSL | 
|  | 15 | bool "Virtual serial line" | 
|  | 16 | help | 
| Jeff Dike | 4c9e138 | 2007-10-16 01:26:54 -0700 | [diff] [blame] | 17 | The User-Mode Linux environment allows you to create virtual serial | 
|  | 18 | lines on the UML that are usually made to show up on the host as | 
|  | 19 | ttys or ptys. | 
| Linus Torvalds | 1da177e | 2005-04-16 15:20:36 -0700 | [diff] [blame] | 20 |  | 
| Karol Swietlicki | 0ba9d3f | 2008-02-04 22:30:38 -0800 | [diff] [blame] | 21 | See <http://user-mode-linux.sourceforge.net/old/input.html> for more | 
| Jeff Dike | 4c9e138 | 2007-10-16 01:26:54 -0700 | [diff] [blame] | 22 | information and command line examples of how to use this facility. | 
| Linus Torvalds | 1da177e | 2005-04-16 15:20:36 -0700 | [diff] [blame] | 23 |  | 
| Jeff Dike | 4c9e138 | 2007-10-16 01:26:54 -0700 | [diff] [blame] | 24 | Unless you have a specific reason for disabling this, say Y. | 
| Linus Torvalds | 1da177e | 2005-04-16 15:20:36 -0700 | [diff] [blame] | 25 |  | 
|  | 26 | config NULL_CHAN | 
|  | 27 | bool "null channel support" | 
|  | 28 | help | 
| Jeff Dike | 4c9e138 | 2007-10-16 01:26:54 -0700 | [diff] [blame] | 29 | This option enables support for attaching UML consoles and serial | 
|  | 30 | lines to a device similar to /dev/null.  Data written to it disappears | 
|  | 31 | and there is never any data to be read. | 
| Linus Torvalds | 1da177e | 2005-04-16 15:20:36 -0700 | [diff] [blame] | 32 |  | 
|  | 33 | config PORT_CHAN | 
|  | 34 | bool "port channel support" | 
|  | 35 | help | 
| Jeff Dike | 4c9e138 | 2007-10-16 01:26:54 -0700 | [diff] [blame] | 36 | This option enables support for attaching UML consoles and serial | 
|  | 37 | lines to host portals.  They may be accessed with 'telnet <host> | 
|  | 38 | <port number>'.  Any number of consoles and serial lines may be | 
|  | 39 | attached to a single portal, although what UML device you get when | 
|  | 40 | you telnet to that portal will be unpredictable. | 
|  | 41 | It is safe to say 'Y' here. | 
| Linus Torvalds | 1da177e | 2005-04-16 15:20:36 -0700 | [diff] [blame] | 42 |  | 
|  | 43 | config PTY_CHAN | 
|  | 44 | bool "pty channel support" | 
|  | 45 | help | 
| Jeff Dike | 4c9e138 | 2007-10-16 01:26:54 -0700 | [diff] [blame] | 46 | This option enables support for attaching UML consoles and serial | 
|  | 47 | lines to host pseudo-terminals.  Access to both traditional | 
|  | 48 | pseudo-terminals (/dev/pty*) and pts pseudo-terminals are controlled | 
|  | 49 | with this option.  The assignment of UML devices to host devices | 
|  | 50 | will be announced in the kernel message log. | 
|  | 51 | It is safe to say 'Y' here. | 
| Linus Torvalds | 1da177e | 2005-04-16 15:20:36 -0700 | [diff] [blame] | 52 |  | 
|  | 53 | config TTY_CHAN | 
|  | 54 | bool "tty channel support" | 
|  | 55 | help | 
| Jeff Dike | 4c9e138 | 2007-10-16 01:26:54 -0700 | [diff] [blame] | 56 | This option enables support for attaching UML consoles and serial | 
|  | 57 | lines to host terminals.  Access to both virtual consoles | 
|  | 58 | (/dev/tty*) and the slave side of pseudo-terminals (/dev/ttyp* and | 
|  | 59 | /dev/pts/*) are controlled by this option. | 
|  | 60 | It is safe to say 'Y' here. | 
| Linus Torvalds | 1da177e | 2005-04-16 15:20:36 -0700 | [diff] [blame] | 61 |  | 
|  | 62 | config XTERM_CHAN | 
|  | 63 | bool "xterm channel support" | 
|  | 64 | help | 
| Jeff Dike | 4c9e138 | 2007-10-16 01:26:54 -0700 | [diff] [blame] | 65 | This option enables support for attaching UML consoles and serial | 
|  | 66 | lines to xterms.  Each UML device so assigned will be brought up in | 
|  | 67 | its own xterm. | 
|  | 68 | It is safe to say 'Y' here. | 
| Linus Torvalds | 1da177e | 2005-04-16 15:20:36 -0700 | [diff] [blame] | 69 |  | 
|  | 70 | config NOCONFIG_CHAN | 
|  | 71 | bool | 
|  | 72 | default !(XTERM_CHAN && TTY_CHAN && PTY_CHAN && PORT_CHAN && NULL_CHAN) | 
|  | 73 |  | 
|  | 74 | config CON_ZERO_CHAN | 
|  | 75 | string "Default main console channel initialization" | 
|  | 76 | default "fd:0,fd:1" | 
|  | 77 | help | 
| Jeff Dike | 4c9e138 | 2007-10-16 01:26:54 -0700 | [diff] [blame] | 78 | This is the string describing the channel to which the main console | 
|  | 79 | will be attached by default.  This value can be overridden from the | 
|  | 80 | command line.  The default value is "fd:0,fd:1", which attaches the | 
|  | 81 | main console to stdin and stdout. | 
|  | 82 | It is safe to leave this unchanged. | 
| Linus Torvalds | 1da177e | 2005-04-16 15:20:36 -0700 | [diff] [blame] | 83 |  | 
|  | 84 | config CON_CHAN | 
|  | 85 | string "Default console channel initialization" | 
|  | 86 | default "xterm" | 
|  | 87 | help | 
| Jeff Dike | 4c9e138 | 2007-10-16 01:26:54 -0700 | [diff] [blame] | 88 | This is the string describing the channel to which all consoles | 
|  | 89 | except the main console will be attached by default.  This value can | 
|  | 90 | be overridden from the command line.  The default value is "xterm", | 
|  | 91 | which brings them up in xterms. | 
|  | 92 | It is safe to leave this unchanged, although you may wish to change | 
|  | 93 | this if you expect the UML that you build to be run in environments | 
|  | 94 | which don't have X or xterm available. | 
| Linus Torvalds | 1da177e | 2005-04-16 15:20:36 -0700 | [diff] [blame] | 95 |  | 
|  | 96 | config SSL_CHAN | 
|  | 97 | string "Default serial line channel initialization" | 
|  | 98 | default "pty" | 
|  | 99 | help | 
| Jeff Dike | 4c9e138 | 2007-10-16 01:26:54 -0700 | [diff] [blame] | 100 | This is the string describing the channel to which the serial lines | 
|  | 101 | will be attached by default.  This value can be overridden from the | 
|  | 102 | command line.  The default value is "pty", which attaches them to | 
|  | 103 | traditional pseudo-terminals. | 
|  | 104 | It is safe to leave this unchanged, although you may wish to change | 
|  | 105 | this if you expect the UML that you build to be run in environments | 
|  | 106 | which don't have a set of /dev/pty* devices. | 
| Linus Torvalds | 1da177e | 2005-04-16 15:20:36 -0700 | [diff] [blame] | 107 |  | 
|  | 108 | config UNIX98_PTYS | 
|  | 109 | bool "Unix98 PTY support" | 
| Jeff Dike | 4c9e138 | 2007-10-16 01:26:54 -0700 | [diff] [blame] | 110 | help | 
| Linus Torvalds | 1da177e | 2005-04-16 15:20:36 -0700 | [diff] [blame] | 111 | A pseudo terminal (PTY) is a software device consisting of two | 
|  | 112 | halves: a master and a slave. The slave device behaves identical to | 
|  | 113 | a physical terminal; the master device is used by a process to | 
|  | 114 | read data from and write data to the slave, thereby emulating a | 
|  | 115 | terminal. Typical programs for the master side are telnet servers | 
|  | 116 | and xterms. | 
|  | 117 |  | 
|  | 118 | Linux has traditionally used the BSD-like names /dev/ptyxx for | 
|  | 119 | masters and /dev/ttyxx for slaves of pseudo terminals. This scheme | 
|  | 120 | has a number of problems. The GNU C library glibc 2.1 and later, | 
|  | 121 | however, supports the Unix98 naming standard: in order to acquire a | 
|  | 122 | pseudo terminal, a process opens /dev/ptmx; the number of the pseudo | 
|  | 123 | terminal is then made available to the process and the pseudo | 
|  | 124 | terminal slave can be accessed as /dev/pts/<number>. What was | 
|  | 125 | traditionally /dev/ttyp2 will then be /dev/pts/2, for example. | 
|  | 126 |  | 
|  | 127 | All modern Linux systems use the Unix98 ptys.  Say Y unless | 
|  | 128 | you're on an embedded system and want to conserve memory. | 
|  | 129 |  | 
|  | 130 | config LEGACY_PTYS | 
|  | 131 | bool "Legacy (BSD) PTY support" | 
|  | 132 | default y | 
| Jeff Dike | 4c9e138 | 2007-10-16 01:26:54 -0700 | [diff] [blame] | 133 | help | 
| Linus Torvalds | 1da177e | 2005-04-16 15:20:36 -0700 | [diff] [blame] | 134 | A pseudo terminal (PTY) is a software device consisting of two | 
|  | 135 | halves: a master and a slave. The slave device behaves identical to | 
|  | 136 | a physical terminal; the master device is used by a process to | 
|  | 137 | read data from and write data to the slave, thereby emulating a | 
|  | 138 | terminal. Typical programs for the master side are telnet servers | 
|  | 139 | and xterms. | 
|  | 140 |  | 
|  | 141 | Linux has traditionally used the BSD-like names /dev/ptyxx | 
|  | 142 | for masters and /dev/ttyxx for slaves of pseudo | 
|  | 143 | terminals. This scheme has a number of problems, including | 
|  | 144 | security.  This option enables these legacy devices; on most | 
|  | 145 | systems, it is safe to say N. | 
|  | 146 |  | 
| Allan Graves | cf2775f | 2007-02-28 20:13:29 -0800 | [diff] [blame] | 147 | config RAW_DRIVER | 
| Robert P. J. Day | 63b9871 | 2008-05-12 14:01:55 -0700 | [diff] [blame] | 148 | tristate "RAW driver (/dev/raw/rawN)" | 
|  | 149 | depends on BLOCK | 
| Allan Graves | cf2775f | 2007-02-28 20:13:29 -0800 | [diff] [blame] | 150 | help | 
|  | 151 | The raw driver permits block devices to be bound to /dev/raw/rawN. | 
|  | 152 | Once bound, I/O against /dev/raw/rawN uses efficient zero-copy I/O. | 
|  | 153 | See the raw(8) manpage for more details. | 
|  | 154 |  | 
| Robert P. J. Day | 63b9871 | 2008-05-12 14:01:55 -0700 | [diff] [blame] | 155 | Applications should preferably open the device (eg /dev/hda1) | 
| Allan Graves | cf2775f | 2007-02-28 20:13:29 -0800 | [diff] [blame] | 156 | with the O_DIRECT flag. | 
|  | 157 |  | 
|  | 158 | config MAX_RAW_DEVS | 
|  | 159 | int "Maximum number of RAW devices to support (1-8192)" | 
|  | 160 | depends on RAW_DRIVER | 
|  | 161 | default "256" | 
|  | 162 | help | 
|  | 163 | The maximum number of RAW devices that are supported. | 
|  | 164 | Default is 256. Increase this number in case you need lots of | 
|  | 165 | raw devices. | 
| Linus Torvalds | 1da177e | 2005-04-16 15:20:36 -0700 | [diff] [blame] | 166 |  | 
|  | 167 | config LEGACY_PTY_COUNT | 
|  | 168 | int "Maximum number of legacy PTY in use" | 
|  | 169 | depends on LEGACY_PTYS | 
|  | 170 | default "256" | 
| Jeff Dike | 4c9e138 | 2007-10-16 01:26:54 -0700 | [diff] [blame] | 171 | help | 
| Linus Torvalds | 1da177e | 2005-04-16 15:20:36 -0700 | [diff] [blame] | 172 | The maximum number of legacy PTYs that can be used at any one time. | 
|  | 173 | The default is 256, and should be more than enough.  Embedded | 
|  | 174 | systems may want to reduce this to save memory. | 
|  | 175 |  | 
|  | 176 | When not in use, each legacy PTY occupies 12 bytes on 32-bit | 
|  | 177 | architectures and 24 bytes on 64-bit architectures. | 
|  | 178 |  | 
|  | 179 | config WATCHDOG | 
|  | 180 | bool "Watchdog Timer Support" | 
|  | 181 |  | 
|  | 182 | config WATCHDOG_NOWAYOUT | 
|  | 183 | bool "Disable watchdog shutdown on close" | 
|  | 184 | depends on WATCHDOG | 
|  | 185 |  | 
|  | 186 | config SOFT_WATCHDOG | 
|  | 187 | tristate "Software Watchdog" | 
|  | 188 | depends on WATCHDOG | 
|  | 189 |  | 
|  | 190 | config UML_WATCHDOG | 
|  | 191 | tristate "UML watchdog" | 
|  | 192 | depends on WATCHDOG | 
|  | 193 |  | 
|  | 194 | config UML_SOUND | 
|  | 195 | tristate "Sound support" | 
|  | 196 | help | 
| Jeff Dike | 4c9e138 | 2007-10-16 01:26:54 -0700 | [diff] [blame] | 197 | This option enables UML sound support.  If enabled, it will pull in | 
|  | 198 | soundcore and the UML hostaudio relay, which acts as a intermediary | 
|  | 199 | between the host's dsp and mixer devices and the UML sound system. | 
|  | 200 | It is safe to say 'Y' here. | 
| Linus Torvalds | 1da177e | 2005-04-16 15:20:36 -0700 | [diff] [blame] | 201 |  | 
|  | 202 | config SOUND | 
|  | 203 | tristate | 
|  | 204 | default UML_SOUND | 
|  | 205 |  | 
| Tejun Heo | d886e87 | 2008-08-28 16:42:51 +0200 | [diff] [blame] | 206 | config SOUND_OSS_CORE | 
|  | 207 | bool | 
|  | 208 | default UML_SOUND | 
|  | 209 |  | 
| Linus Torvalds | 1da177e | 2005-04-16 15:20:36 -0700 | [diff] [blame] | 210 | config HOSTAUDIO | 
|  | 211 | tristate | 
|  | 212 | default UML_SOUND | 
|  | 213 |  | 
| Paolo 'Blaisorblade' Giarrusso | f43e6a5 | 2006-10-19 23:28:25 -0700 | [diff] [blame] | 214 | #It is selected elsewhere, so kconfig would warn without this. | 
|  | 215 | config HW_RANDOM | 
|  | 216 | tristate | 
|  | 217 | default n | 
|  | 218 |  | 
| Linus Torvalds | 1da177e | 2005-04-16 15:20:36 -0700 | [diff] [blame] | 219 | config UML_RANDOM | 
|  | 220 | tristate "Hardware random number generator" | 
|  | 221 | help | 
| Jeff Dike | 4c9e138 | 2007-10-16 01:26:54 -0700 | [diff] [blame] | 222 | This option enables UML's "hardware" random number generator.  It | 
|  | 223 | attaches itself to the host's /dev/random, supplying as much entropy | 
|  | 224 | as the host has, rather than the small amount the UML gets from its | 
|  | 225 | own drivers.  It registers itself as a standard hardware random number | 
|  | 226 | generator, major 10, minor 183, and the canonical device name is | 
|  | 227 | /dev/hwrng. | 
|  | 228 | The way to make use of this is to install the rng-tools package | 
|  | 229 | (check your distro, or download from | 
|  | 230 | http://sourceforge.net/projects/gkernel/).  rngd periodically reads | 
|  | 231 | /dev/hwrng and injects the entropy into /dev/random. | 
| Linus Torvalds | 1da177e | 2005-04-16 15:20:36 -0700 | [diff] [blame] | 232 |  | 
| Jeff Dike | 3df5952 | 2005-06-08 15:47:50 -0700 | [diff] [blame] | 233 | config MMAPPER | 
|  | 234 | tristate "iomem emulation driver" | 
|  | 235 | help | 
| Jeff Dike | 4c9e138 | 2007-10-16 01:26:54 -0700 | [diff] [blame] | 236 | This driver allows a host file to be used as emulated IO memory inside | 
|  | 237 | UML. | 
| Jeff Dike | 3df5952 | 2005-06-08 15:47:50 -0700 | [diff] [blame] | 238 |  | 
| Linus Torvalds | 1da177e | 2005-04-16 15:20:36 -0700 | [diff] [blame] | 239 | endmenu |