1# 2# Character device configuration 3# 4 5menu "Character devices" 6 7config VT 8 bool "Virtual terminal" if EMBEDDED 9 select INPUT 10 default y if !VIOCONS 11 ---help--- 12 If you say Y here, you will get support for terminal devices with 13 display and keyboard devices. These are called "virtual" because you 14 can run several virtual terminals (also called virtual consoles) on 15 one physical terminal. This is rather useful, for example one 16 virtual terminal can collect system messages and warnings, another 17 one can be used for a text-mode user session, and a third could run 18 an X session, all in parallel. Switching between virtual terminals 19 is done with certain key combinations, usually Alt-<function key>. 20 21 The setterm command ("man setterm") can be used to change the 22 properties (such as colors or beeping) of a virtual terminal. The 23 man page console_codes(4) ("man console_codes") contains the special 24 character sequences that can be used to change those properties 25 directly. The fonts used on virtual terminals can be changed with 26 the setfont ("man setfont") command and the key bindings are defined 27 with the loadkeys ("man loadkeys") command. 28 29 You need at least one virtual terminal device in order to make use 30 of your keyboard and monitor. Therefore, only people configuring an 31 embedded system would want to say N here in order to save some 32 memory; the only way to log into such a system is then via a serial 33 or network connection. 34 35 If unsure, say Y, or else you won't be able to do much with your new 36 shiny Linux system :-) 37 38config VT_CONSOLE 39 bool "Support for console on virtual terminal" if EMBEDDED 40 depends on VT 41 default y 42 ---help--- 43 The system console is the device which receives all kernel messages 44 and warnings and which allows logins in single user mode. If you 45 answer Y here, a virtual terminal (the device used to interact with 46 a physical terminal) can be used as system console. This is the most 47 common mode of operations, so you should say Y here unless you want 48 the kernel messages be output only to a serial port (in which case 49 you should say Y to "Console on serial port", below). 50 51 If you do say Y here, by default the currently visible virtual 52 terminal (/dev/tty0) will be used as system console. You can change 53 that with a kernel command line option such as "console=tty3" which 54 would use the third virtual terminal as system console. (Try "man 55 bootparam" or see the documentation of your boot loader (lilo or 56 loadlin) about how to pass options to the kernel at boot time.) 57 58 If unsure, say Y. 59 60config HW_CONSOLE 61 bool 62 depends on VT && !S390 && !UML 63 default y 64 65config SERIAL_NONSTANDARD 66 bool "Non-standard serial port support" 67 ---help--- 68 Say Y here if you have any non-standard serial boards -- boards 69 which aren't supported using the standard "dumb" serial driver. 70 This includes intelligent serial boards such as Cyclades, 71 Digiboards, etc. These are usually used for systems that need many 72 serial ports because they serve many terminals or dial-in 73 connections. 74 75 Note that the answer to this question won't directly affect the 76 kernel: saying N will just cause the configurator to skip all 77 the questions about non-standard serial boards. 78 79 Most people can say N here. 80 81config COMPUTONE 82 tristate "Computone IntelliPort Plus serial support" 83 depends on SERIAL_NONSTANDARD && BROKEN_ON_SMP 84 ---help--- 85 This driver supports the entire family of Intelliport II/Plus 86 controllers with the exception of the MicroChannel controllers and 87 products previous to the Intelliport II. These are multiport cards, 88 which give you many serial ports. You would need something like this 89 to connect more than two modems to your Linux box, for instance in 90 order to become a dial-in server. If you have a card like that, say 91 Y here and read <file:Documentation/computone.txt>. 92 93 To compile this driver as modules, choose M here: the 94 modules will be called ip2 and ip2main. 95 96config ROCKETPORT 97 tristate "Comtrol RocketPort support" 98 depends on SERIAL_NONSTANDARD 99 help 100 This driver supports Comtrol RocketPort and RocketModem PCI boards. 101 These boards provide 2, 4, 8, 16, or 32 high-speed serial ports or 102 modems. For information about the RocketPort/RocketModem boards 103 and this driver read <file:Documentation/rocket.txt>. 104 105 To compile this driver as a module, choose M here: the 106 module will be called rocket. 107 108 If you want to compile this driver into the kernel, say Y here. If 109 you don't have a Comtrol RocketPort/RocketModem card installed, say N. 110 111config CYCLADES 112 tristate "Cyclades async mux support" 113 depends on SERIAL_NONSTANDARD 114 ---help--- 115 This driver supports Cyclades Z and Y multiserial boards. 116 You would need something like this to connect more than two modems to 117 your Linux box, for instance in order to become a dial-in server. 118 119 For information about the Cyclades-Z card, read 120 <file:drivers/char/README.cycladesZ>. 121 122 To compile this driver as a module, choose M here: the 123 module will be called cyclades. 124 125 If you haven't heard about it, it's safe to say N. 126 127config CYZ_INTR 128 bool "Cyclades-Z interrupt mode operation (EXPERIMENTAL)" 129 depends on EXPERIMENTAL && CYCLADES 130 help 131 The Cyclades-Z family of multiport cards allows 2 (two) driver op 132 modes: polling and interrupt. In polling mode, the driver will check 133 the status of the Cyclades-Z ports every certain amount of time 134 (which is called polling cycle and is configurable). In interrupt 135 mode, it will use an interrupt line (IRQ) in order to check the 136 status of the Cyclades-Z ports. The default op mode is polling. If 137 unsure, say N. 138 139config DIGIEPCA 140 tristate "Digiboard Intelligent Async Support" 141 depends on SERIAL_NONSTANDARD && BROKEN_ON_SMP 142 ---help--- 143 This is a driver for Digi International's Xx, Xeve, and Xem series 144 of cards which provide multiple serial ports. You would need 145 something like this to connect more than two modems to your Linux 146 box, for instance in order to become a dial-in server. This driver 147 supports the original PC (ISA) boards as well as PCI, and EISA. If 148 you have a card like this, say Y here and read the file 149 <file:Documentation/digiepca.txt>. 150 151 To compile this driver as a module, choose M here: the 152 module will be called epca. 153 154config ESPSERIAL 155 tristate "Hayes ESP serial port support" 156 depends on SERIAL_NONSTANDARD && ISA && BROKEN_ON_SMP 157 help 158 This is a driver which supports Hayes ESP serial ports. Both single 159 port cards and multiport cards are supported. Make sure to read 160 <file:Documentation/hayes-esp.txt>. 161 162 To compile this driver as a module, choose M here: the 163 module will be called esp. 164 165 If unsure, say N. 166 167config MOXA_INTELLIO 168 tristate "Moxa Intellio support" 169 depends on SERIAL_NONSTANDARD && BROKEN_ON_SMP 170 help 171 Say Y here if you have a Moxa Intellio multiport serial card. 172 173 To compile this driver as a module, choose M here: the 174 module will be called moxa. 175 176config MOXA_SMARTIO 177 tristate "Moxa SmartIO support" 178 depends on SERIAL_NONSTANDARD 179 help 180 Say Y here if you have a Moxa SmartIO multiport serial card. 181 182 This driver can also be built as a module ( = code which can be 183 inserted in and removed from the running kernel whenever you want). 184 The module will be called mxser. If you want to do that, say M 185 here. 186 187config ISI 188 tristate "Multi-Tech multiport card support (EXPERIMENTAL)" 189 depends on SERIAL_NONSTANDARD 190 help 191 This is a driver for the Multi-Tech cards which provide several 192 serial ports. The driver is experimental and can currently only be 193 built as a module. The module will be called isicom. 194 If you want to do that, choose M here. 195 196config SYNCLINK 197 tristate "Microgate SyncLink card support" 198 depends on SERIAL_NONSTANDARD && PCI 199 help 200 Provides support for the SyncLink ISA and PCI multiprotocol serial 201 adapters. These adapters support asynchronous and HDLC bit 202 synchronous communication up to 10Mbps (PCI adapter). 203 204 This driver can only be built as a module ( = code which can be 205 inserted in and removed from the running kernel whenever you want). 206 The module will be called synclink. If you want to do that, say M 207 here. 208 209config SYNCLINKMP 210 tristate "SyncLink Multiport support" 211 depends on SERIAL_NONSTANDARD 212 help 213 Enable support for the SyncLink Multiport (2 or 4 ports) 214 serial adapter, running asynchronous and HDLC communications up 215 to 2.048Mbps. Each ports is independently selectable for 216 RS-232, V.35, RS-449, RS-530, and X.21 217 218 This driver may be built as a module ( = code which can be 219 inserted in and removed from the running kernel whenever you want). 220 The module will be called synclinkmp. If you want to do that, say M 221 here. 222 223config N_HDLC 224 tristate "HDLC line discipline support" 225 depends on SERIAL_NONSTANDARD 226 help 227 Allows synchronous HDLC communications with tty device drivers that 228 support synchronous HDLC such as the Microgate SyncLink adapter. 229 230 This driver can only be built as a module ( = code which can be 231 inserted in and removed from the running kernel whenever you want). 232 The module will be called n_hdlc. If you want to do that, say M 233 here. 234 235config RISCOM8 236 tristate "SDL RISCom/8 card support" 237 depends on SERIAL_NONSTANDARD && BROKEN_ON_SMP 238 help 239 This is a driver for the SDL Communications RISCom/8 multiport card, 240 which gives you many serial ports. You would need something like 241 this to connect more than two modems to your Linux box, for instance 242 in order to become a dial-in server. If you have a card like that, 243 say Y here and read the file <file:Documentation/riscom8.txt>. 244 245 Also it's possible to say M here and compile this driver as kernel 246 loadable module; the module will be called riscom8. 247 248config SPECIALIX 249 tristate "Specialix IO8+ card support" 250 depends on SERIAL_NONSTANDARD 251 help 252 This is a driver for the Specialix IO8+ multiport card (both the 253 ISA and the PCI version) which gives you many serial ports. You 254 would need something like this to connect more than two modems to 255 your Linux box, for instance in order to become a dial-in server. 256 257 If you have a card like that, say Y here and read the file 258 <file:Documentation/specialix.txt>. Also it's possible to say M here 259 and compile this driver as kernel loadable module which will be 260 called specialix. 261 262config SPECIALIX_RTSCTS 263 bool "Specialix DTR/RTS pin is RTS" 264 depends on SPECIALIX 265 help 266 The Specialix IO8+ card can only support either RTS or DTR. If you 267 say N here, the driver will use the pin as "DTR" when the tty is in 268 software handshake mode. If you say Y here or hardware handshake is 269 on, it will always be RTS. Read the file 270 <file:Documentation/specialix.txt> for more information. 271 272config SX 273 tristate "Specialix SX (and SI) card support" 274 depends on SERIAL_NONSTANDARD 275 help 276 This is a driver for the SX and SI multiport serial cards. 277 Please read the file <file:Documentation/sx.txt> for details. 278 279 This driver can only be built as a module ( = code which can be 280 inserted in and removed from the running kernel whenever you want). 281 The module will be called sx. If you want to do that, say M here. 282 283config RIO 284 tristate "Specialix RIO system support" 285 depends on SERIAL_NONSTANDARD && BROKEN_ON_SMP 286 help 287 This is a driver for the Specialix RIO, a smart serial card which 288 drives an outboard box that can support up to 128 ports. Product 289 information is at <http://www.perle.com/support/documentation.html#multiport>. 290 There are both ISA and PCI versions. 291 292config RIO_OLDPCI 293 bool "Support really old RIO/PCI cards" 294 depends on RIO 295 help 296 Older RIO PCI cards need some initialization-time configuration to 297 determine the IRQ and some control addresses. If you have a RIO and 298 this doesn't seem to work, try setting this to Y. 299 300config STALDRV 301 bool "Stallion multiport serial support" 302 depends on SERIAL_NONSTANDARD 303 help 304 Stallion cards give you many serial ports. You would need something 305 like this to connect more than two modems to your Linux box, for 306 instance in order to become a dial-in server. If you say Y here, 307 you will be asked for your specific card model in the next 308 questions. Make sure to read <file:Documentation/stallion.txt> in 309 this case. If you have never heard about all this, it's safe to 310 say N. 311 312config STALLION 313 tristate "Stallion EasyIO or EC8/32 support" 314 depends on STALDRV && BROKEN_ON_SMP 315 help 316 If you have an EasyIO or EasyConnection 8/32 multiport Stallion 317 card, then this is for you; say Y. Make sure to read 318 <file:Documentation/stallion.txt>. 319 320 To compile this driver as a module, choose M here: the 321 module will be called stallion. 322 323config ISTALLION 324 tristate "Stallion EC8/64, ONboard, Brumby support" 325 depends on STALDRV && BROKEN_ON_SMP 326 help 327 If you have an EasyConnection 8/64, ONboard, Brumby or Stallion 328 serial multiport card, say Y here. Make sure to read 329 <file:Documentation/stallion.txt>. 330 331 To compile this driver as a module, choose M here: the 332 module will be called istallion. 333 334config AU1000_UART 335 bool "Enable Au1000 UART Support" 336 depends on SERIAL_NONSTANDARD && MIPS 337 help 338 If you have an Alchemy AU1000 processor (MIPS based) and you want 339 to use serial ports, say Y. Otherwise, say N. 340 341config AU1000_SERIAL_CONSOLE 342 bool "Enable Au1000 serial console" 343 depends on AU1000_UART 344 help 345 If you have an Alchemy AU1000 processor (MIPS based) and you want 346 to use a console on a serial port, say Y. Otherwise, say N. 347 348config QTRONIX_KEYBOARD 349 bool "Enable Qtronix 990P Keyboard Support" 350 depends on IT8712 351 help 352 Images of Qtronix keyboards are at 353 <http://www.qtronix.com/keyboard.html>. 354 355config IT8172_CIR 356 bool 357 depends on QTRONIX_KEYBOARD 358 default y 359 360config IT8172_SCR0 361 bool "Enable Smart Card Reader 0 Support " 362 depends on IT8712 363 help 364 Say Y here to support smart-card reader 0 (SCR0) on the Integrated 365 Technology Express, Inc. ITE8172 SBC. Vendor page at 366 <http://www.ite.com.tw/ia/brief_it8172bsp.htm>; picture of the 367 board at <http://www.mvista.com/partners/semiconductor/ite.html>. 368 369config IT8172_SCR1 370 bool "Enable Smart Card Reader 1 Support " 371 depends on IT8712 372 help 373 Say Y here to support smart-card reader 1 (SCR1) on the Integrated 374 Technology Express, Inc. ITE8172 SBC. Vendor page at 375 <http://www.ite.com.tw/ia/brief_it8172bsp.htm>; picture of the 376 board at <http://www.mvista.com/partners/semiconductor/ite.html>. 377 378config A2232 379 tristate "Commodore A2232 serial support (EXPERIMENTAL)" 380 depends on EXPERIMENTAL && ZORRO && BROKEN_ON_SMP 381 ---help--- 382 This option supports the 2232 7-port serial card shipped with the 383 Amiga 2000 and other Zorro-bus machines, dating from 1989. At 384 a max of 19,200 bps, the ports are served by a 6551 ACIA UART chip 385 each, plus a 8520 CIA, and a master 6502 CPU and buffer as well. The 386 ports were connected with 8 pin DIN connectors on the card bracket, 387 for which 8 pin to DB25 adapters were supplied. The card also had 388 jumpers internally to toggle various pinning configurations. 389 390 This driver can be built as a module; but then "generic_serial" 391 will also be built as a module. This has to be loaded before 392 "ser_a2232". If you want to do this, answer M here. 393 394config SGI_SNSC 395 bool "SGI Altix system controller communication support" 396 depends on (IA64_SGI_SN2 || IA64_GENERIC) 397 help 398 If you have an SGI Altix and you want to enable system 399 controller communication from user space (you want this!), 400 say Y. Otherwise, say N. 401 402source "drivers/serial/Kconfig" 403 404config UNIX98_PTYS 405 bool "Unix98 PTY support" if EMBEDDED 406 default y 407 ---help--- 408 A pseudo terminal (PTY) is a software device consisting of two 409 halves: a master and a slave. The slave device behaves identical to 410 a physical terminal; the master device is used by a process to 411 read data from and write data to the slave, thereby emulating a 412 terminal. Typical programs for the master side are telnet servers 413 and xterms. 414 415 Linux has traditionally used the BSD-like names /dev/ptyxx for 416 masters and /dev/ttyxx for slaves of pseudo terminals. This scheme 417 has a number of problems. The GNU C library glibc 2.1 and later, 418 however, supports the Unix98 naming standard: in order to acquire a 419 pseudo terminal, a process opens /dev/ptmx; the number of the pseudo 420 terminal is then made available to the process and the pseudo 421 terminal slave can be accessed as /dev/pts/<number>. What was 422 traditionally /dev/ttyp2 will then be /dev/pts/2, for example. 423 424 All modern Linux systems use the Unix98 ptys. Say Y unless 425 you're on an embedded system and want to conserve memory. 426 427config LEGACY_PTYS 428 bool "Legacy (BSD) PTY support" 429 default y 430 ---help--- 431 A pseudo terminal (PTY) is a software device consisting of two 432 halves: a master and a slave. The slave device behaves identical to 433 a physical terminal; the master device is used by a process to 434 read data from and write data to the slave, thereby emulating a 435 terminal. Typical programs for the master side are telnet servers 436 and xterms. 437 438 Linux has traditionally used the BSD-like names /dev/ptyxx 439 for masters and /dev/ttyxx for slaves of pseudo 440 terminals. This scheme has a number of problems, including 441 security. This option enables these legacy devices; on most 442 systems, it is safe to say N. 443 444 445config LEGACY_PTY_COUNT 446 int "Maximum number of legacy PTY in use" 447 depends on LEGACY_PTYS 448 range 1 256 449 default "256" 450 ---help--- 451 The maximum number of legacy PTYs that can be used at any one time. 452 The default is 256, and should be more than enough. Embedded 453 systems may want to reduce this to save memory. 454 455 When not in use, each legacy PTY occupies 12 bytes on 32-bit 456 architectures and 24 bytes on 64-bit architectures. 457 458config PRINTER 459 tristate "Parallel printer support" 460 depends on PARPORT 461 ---help--- 462 If you intend to attach a printer to the parallel port of your Linux 463 box (as opposed to using a serial printer; if the connector at the 464 printer has 9 or 25 holes ["female"], then it's serial), say Y. 465 Also read the Printing-HOWTO, available from 466 <http://www.tldp.org/docs.html#howto>. 467 468 It is possible to share one parallel port among several devices 469 (e.g. printer and ZIP drive) and it is safe to compile the 470 corresponding drivers into the kernel. 471 472 To compile this driver as a module, choose M here and read 473 <file:Documentation/parport.txt>. The module will be called lp. 474 475 If you have several parallel ports, you can specify which ports to 476 use with the "lp" kernel command line option. (Try "man bootparam" 477 or see the documentation of your boot loader (lilo or loadlin) about 478 how to pass options to the kernel at boot time.) The syntax of the 479 "lp" command line option can be found in <file:drivers/char/lp.c>. 480 481 If you have more than 8 printers, you need to increase the LP_NO 482 macro in lp.c and the PARPORT_MAX macro in parport.h. 483 484config LP_CONSOLE 485 bool "Support for console on line printer" 486 depends on PRINTER 487 ---help--- 488 If you want kernel messages to be printed out as they occur, you 489 can have a console on the printer. This option adds support for 490 doing that; to actually get it to happen you need to pass the 491 option "console=lp0" to the kernel at boot time. 492 493 If the printer is out of paper (or off, or unplugged, or too 494 busy..) the kernel will stall until the printer is ready again. 495 By defining CONSOLE_LP_STRICT to 0 (at your own risk) you 496 can make the kernel continue when this happens, 497 but it'll lose the kernel messages. 498 499 If unsure, say N. 500 501config PPDEV 502 tristate "Support for user-space parallel port device drivers" 503 depends on PARPORT 504 ---help--- 505 Saying Y to this adds support for /dev/parport device nodes. This 506 is needed for programs that want portable access to the parallel 507 port, for instance deviceid (which displays Plug-and-Play device 508 IDs). 509 510 This is the parallel port equivalent of SCSI generic support (sg). 511 It is safe to say N to this -- it is not needed for normal printing 512 or parallel port CD-ROM/disk support. 513 514 To compile this driver as a module, choose M here: the 515 module will be called ppdev. 516 517 If unsure, say N. 518 519config TIPAR 520 tristate "Texas Instruments parallel link cable support" 521 depends on PARPORT 522 ---help--- 523 If you own a Texas Instruments graphing calculator and use a 524 parallel link cable, then you might be interested in this driver. 525 526 If you enable this driver, you will be able to communicate with 527 your calculator through a set of device nodes under /dev. The 528 main advantage of this driver is that you don't have to be root 529 to use this precise link cable (depending on the permissions on 530 the device nodes, though). 531 532 To compile this driver as a module, choose M here: the 533 module will be called tipar. 534 535 If you don't know what a parallel link cable is or what a Texas 536 Instruments graphing calculator is, then you probably don't need this 537 driver. 538 539 If unsure, say N. 540 541config HVC_CONSOLE 542 bool "pSeries Hypervisor Virtual Console support" 543 depends on PPC_PSERIES 544 help 545 pSeries machines when partitioned support a hypervisor virtual 546 console. This driver allows each pSeries partition to have a console 547 which is accessed via the HMC. 548 549config HVCS 550 tristate "IBM Hypervisor Virtual Console Server support" 551 depends on PPC_PSERIES 552 help 553 Partitionable IBM Power5 ppc64 machines allow hosting of 554 firmware virtual consoles from one Linux partition by 555 another Linux partition. This driver allows console data 556 from Linux partitions to be accessed through TTY device 557 interfaces in the device tree of a Linux partition running 558 this driver. 559 560 To compile this driver as a module, choose M here: the 561 module will be called hvcs.ko. Additionally, this module 562 will depend on arch specific APIs exported from hvcserver.ko 563 which will also be compiled when this driver is built as a 564 module. 565 566source "drivers/char/ipmi/Kconfig" 567 568source "drivers/char/watchdog/Kconfig" 569 570config DS1620 571 tristate "NetWinder thermometer support" 572 depends on ARCH_NETWINDER 573 help 574 Say Y here to include support for the thermal management hardware 575 found in the NetWinder. This driver allows the user to control the 576 temperature set points and to read the current temperature. 577 578 It is also possible to say M here to build it as a module (ds1620) 579 It is recommended to be used on a NetWinder, but it is not a 580 necessity. 581 582config NWBUTTON 583 tristate "NetWinder Button" 584 depends on ARCH_NETWINDER 585 ---help--- 586 If you say Y here and create a character device node /dev/nwbutton 587 with major and minor numbers 10 and 158 ("man mknod"), then every 588 time the orange button is pressed a number of times, the number of 589 times the button was pressed will be written to that device. 590 591 This is most useful for applications, as yet unwritten, which 592 perform actions based on how many times the button is pressed in a 593 row. 594 595 Do not hold the button down for too long, as the driver does not 596 alter the behaviour of the hardware reset circuitry attached to the 597 button; it will still execute a hard reset if the button is held 598 down for longer than approximately five seconds. 599 600 To compile this driver as a module, choose M here: the 601 module will be called nwbutton. 602 603 Most people will answer Y to this question and "Reboot Using Button" 604 below to be able to initiate a system shutdown from the button. 605 606config NWBUTTON_REBOOT 607 bool "Reboot Using Button" 608 depends on NWBUTTON 609 help 610 If you say Y here, then you will be able to initiate a system 611 shutdown and reboot by pressing the orange button a number of times. 612 The number of presses to initiate the shutdown is two by default, 613 but this can be altered by modifying the value of NUM_PRESSES_REBOOT 614 in nwbutton.h and recompiling the driver or, if you compile the 615 driver as a module, you can specify the number of presses at load 616 time with "insmod button reboot_count=<something>". 617 618config NWFLASH 619 tristate "NetWinder flash support" 620 depends on ARCH_NETWINDER 621 ---help--- 622 If you say Y here and create a character device /dev/flash with 623 major 10 and minor 160 you can manipulate the flash ROM containing 624 the NetWinder firmware. Be careful as accidentally overwriting the 625 flash contents can render your computer unbootable. On no account 626 allow random users access to this device. :-) 627 628 To compile this driver as a module, choose M here: the 629 module will be called nwflash. 630 631 If you're not sure, say N. 632 633config HW_RANDOM 634 tristate "Intel/AMD/VIA HW Random Number Generator support" 635 depends on (X86 || IA64) && PCI 636 ---help--- 637 This driver provides kernel-side support for the Random Number 638 Generator hardware found on Intel i8xx-based motherboards, 639 AMD 76x-based motherboards, and Via Nehemiah CPUs. 640 641 Provides a character driver, used to read() entropy data. 642 643 To compile this driver as a module, choose M here: the 644 module will be called hw_random. 645 646 If unsure, say N. 647 648config NVRAM 649 tristate "/dev/nvram support" 650 depends on ATARI || X86 || X86_64 || ARM || GENERIC_NVRAM 651 ---help--- 652 If you say Y here and create a character special file /dev/nvram 653 with major number 10 and minor number 144 using mknod ("man mknod"), 654 you get read and write access to the extra bytes of non-volatile 655 memory in the real time clock (RTC), which is contained in every PC 656 and most Ataris. The actual number of bytes varies, depending on the 657 nvram in the system, but is usually 114 (128-14 for the RTC). 658 659 This memory is conventionally called "CMOS RAM" on PCs and "NVRAM" 660 on Ataris. /dev/nvram may be used to view settings there, or to 661 change them (with some utility). It could also be used to frequently 662 save a few bits of very important data that may not be lost over 663 power-off and for which writing to disk is too insecure. Note 664 however that most NVRAM space in a PC belongs to the BIOS and you 665 should NEVER idly tamper with it. See Ralf Brown's interrupt list 666 for a guide to the use of CMOS bytes by your BIOS. 667 668 On Atari machines, /dev/nvram is always configured and does not need 669 to be selected. 670 671 To compile this driver as a module, choose M here: the 672 module will be called nvram. 673 674config RTC 675 tristate "Enhanced Real Time Clock Support" 676 depends on !PPC32 && !PARISC && !IA64 && !M68K 677 ---help--- 678 If you say Y here and create a character special file /dev/rtc with 679 major number 10 and minor number 135 using mknod ("man mknod"), you 680 will get access to the real time clock (or hardware clock) built 681 into your computer. 682 683 Every PC has such a clock built in. It can be used to generate 684 signals from as low as 1Hz up to 8192Hz, and can also be used 685 as a 24 hour alarm. It reports status information via the file 686 /proc/driver/rtc and its behaviour is set by various ioctls on 687 /dev/rtc. 688 689 If you run Linux on a multiprocessor machine and said Y to 690 "Symmetric Multi Processing" above, you should say Y here to read 691 and set the RTC in an SMP compatible fashion. 692 693 If you think you have a use for such a device (such as periodic data 694 sampling), then say Y here, and read <file:Documentation/rtc.txt> 695 for details. 696 697 To compile this driver as a module, choose M here: the 698 module will be called rtc. 699 700config SGI_DS1286 701 tristate "SGI DS1286 RTC support" 702 depends on SGI_IP22 703 help 704 If you say Y here and create a character special file /dev/rtc with 705 major number 10 and minor number 135 using mknod ("man mknod"), you 706 will get access to the real time clock built into your computer. 707 Every SGI has such a clock built in. It reports status information 708 via the file /proc/rtc and its behaviour is set by various ioctls on 709 /dev/rtc. 710 711config SGI_IP27_RTC 712 bool "SGI M48T35 RTC support" 713 depends on SGI_IP27 714 help 715 If you say Y here and create a character special file /dev/rtc with 716 major number 10 and minor number 135 using mknod ("man mknod"), you 717 will get access to the real time clock built into your computer. 718 Every SGI has such a clock built in. It reports status information 719 via the file /proc/rtc and its behaviour is set by various ioctls on 720 /dev/rtc. 721 722config GEN_RTC 723 tristate "Generic /dev/rtc emulation" 724 depends on RTC!=y && !IA64 && !ARM 725 ---help--- 726 If you say Y here and create a character special file /dev/rtc with 727 major number 10 and minor number 135 using mknod ("man mknod"), you 728 will get access to the real time clock (or hardware clock) built 729 into your computer. 730 731 It reports status information via the file /proc/driver/rtc and its 732 behaviour is set by various ioctls on /dev/rtc. If you enable the 733 "extended RTC operation" below it will also provide an emulation 734 for RTC_UIE which is required by some programs and may improve 735 precision in some cases. 736 737 To compile this driver as a module, choose M here: the 738 module will be called genrtc. 739 740config GEN_RTC_X 741 bool "Extended RTC operation" 742 depends on GEN_RTC 743 help 744 Provides an emulation for RTC_UIE which is required by some programs 745 and may improve precision of the generic RTC support in some cases. 746 747config EFI_RTC 748 bool "EFI Real Time Clock Services" 749 depends on IA64 750 751config DS1302 752 tristate "DS1302 RTC support" 753 depends on M32R && (PLAT_M32700UT || PLAT_OPSPUT) 754 help 755 If you say Y here and create a character special file /dev/rtc with 756 major number 121 and minor number 0 using mknod ("man mknod"), you 757 will get access to the real time clock (or hardware clock) built 758 into your computer. 759 760config S3C2410_RTC 761 bool "S3C2410 RTC Driver" 762 depends on ARCH_S3C2410 763 help 764 RTC (Realtime Clock) driver for the clock inbuilt into the 765 Samsung S3C2410. This can provide periodic interrupt rates 766 from 1Hz to 64Hz for user programs, and wakeup from Alarm. 767 768config RTC_VR41XX 769 tristate "NEC VR4100 series Real Time Clock Support" 770 depends on CPU_VR41XX 771 772config COBALT_LCD 773 bool "Support for Cobalt LCD" 774 depends on MIPS_COBALT 775 help 776 This option enables support for the LCD display and buttons found 777 on Cobalt systems through a misc device. 778 779config DTLK 780 tristate "Double Talk PC internal speech card support" 781 help 782 This driver is for the DoubleTalk PC, a speech synthesizer 783 manufactured by RC Systems (<http://www.rcsys.com/>). It is also 784 called the `internal DoubleTalk'. 785 786 To compile this driver as a module, choose M here: the 787 module will be called dtlk. 788 789config R3964 790 tristate "Siemens R3964 line discipline" 791 ---help--- 792 This driver allows synchronous communication with devices using the 793 Siemens R3964 packet protocol. Unless you are dealing with special 794 hardware like PLCs, you are unlikely to need this. 795 796 To compile this driver as a module, choose M here: the 797 module will be called n_r3964. 798 799 If unsure, say N. 800 801config APPLICOM 802 tristate "Applicom intelligent fieldbus card support" 803 depends on PCI 804 ---help--- 805 This driver provides the kernel-side support for the intelligent 806 fieldbus cards made by Applicom International. More information 807 about these cards can be found on the WWW at the address 808 <http://www.applicom-int.com/>, or by email from David Woodhouse 809 <dwmw2@infradead.org>. 810 811 To compile this driver as a module, choose M here: the 812 module will be called applicom. 813 814 If unsure, say N. 815 816config SONYPI 817 tristate "Sony Vaio Programmable I/O Control Device support (EXPERIMENTAL)" 818 depends on EXPERIMENTAL && X86 && PCI && INPUT && !64BIT 819 ---help--- 820 This driver enables access to the Sony Programmable I/O Control 821 Device which can be found in many (all ?) Sony Vaio laptops. 822 823 If you have one of those laptops, read 824 <file:Documentation/sonypi.txt>, and say Y or M here. 825 826 To compile this driver as a module, choose M here: the 827 module will be called sonypi. 828 829config TANBAC_TB0219 830 tristate "TANBAC TB0219 base board support" 831 depends TANBAC_TB0229 832 833 834menu "Ftape, the floppy tape device driver" 835 836config FTAPE 837 tristate "Ftape (QIC-80/Travan) support" 838 depends on BROKEN_ON_SMP && (ALPHA || X86) 839 ---help--- 840 If you have a tape drive that is connected to your floppy 841 controller, say Y here. 842 843 Some tape drives (like the Seagate "Tape Store 3200" or the Iomega 844 "Ditto 3200" or the Exabyte "Eagle TR-3") come with a "high speed" 845 controller of their own. These drives (and their companion 846 controllers) are also supported if you say Y here. 847 848 If you have a special controller (such as the CMS FC-10, FC-20, 849 Mountain Mach-II, or any controller that is based on the Intel 82078 850 FDC like the high speed controllers by Seagate and Exabyte and 851 Iomega's "Ditto Dash") you must configure it by selecting the 852 appropriate entries from the "Floppy tape controllers" sub-menu 853 below and possibly modify the default values for the IRQ and DMA 854 channel and the IO base in ftape's configuration menu. 855 856 If you want to use your floppy tape drive on a PCI-bus based system, 857 please read the file <file:drivers/char/ftape/README.PCI>. 858 859 The ftape kernel driver is also available as a runtime loadable 860 module. To compile this driver as a module, choose M here: the 861 module will be called ftape. 862 863 Note that the Ftape-HOWTO is out of date (sorry) and documents the 864 older version 2.08 of this software but still contains useful 865 information. There is a web page with more recent documentation at 866 <http://www.instmath.rwth-aachen.de/~heine/ftape/>. This page 867 always contains the latest release of the ftape driver and useful 868 information (backup software, ftape related patches and 869 documentation, FAQ). Note that the file system interface has 870 changed quite a bit compared to previous versions of ftape. Please 871 read <file:Documentation/ftape.txt>. 872 873source "drivers/char/ftape/Kconfig" 874 875endmenu 876 877source "drivers/char/agp/Kconfig" 878 879source "drivers/char/drm/Kconfig" 880 881source "drivers/char/pcmcia/Kconfig" 882 883config MWAVE 884 tristate "ACP Modem (Mwave) support" 885 depends on X86 886 select SERIAL_8250 887 ---help--- 888 The ACP modem (Mwave) for Linux is a WinModem. It is composed of a 889 kernel driver and a user level application. Together these components 890 support direct attachment to public switched telephone networks (PSTNs) 891 and support selected world wide countries. 892 893 This version of the ACP Modem driver supports the IBM Thinkpad 600E, 894 600, and 770 that include on board ACP modem hardware. 895 896 The modem also supports the standard communications port interface 897 (ttySx) and is compatible with the Hayes AT Command Set. 898 899 The user level application needed to use this driver can be found at 900 the IBM Linux Technology Center (LTC) web site: 901 <http://www.ibm.com/linux/ltc/>. 902 903 If you own one of the above IBM Thinkpads which has the Mwave chipset 904 in it, say Y. 905 906 To compile this driver as a module, choose M here: the 907 module will be called mwave. 908 909config SCx200_GPIO 910 tristate "NatSemi SCx200 GPIO Support" 911 depends on SCx200 912 help 913 Give userspace access to the GPIO pins on the National 914 Semiconductor SCx200 processors. 915 916 If compiled as a module, it will be called scx200_gpio. 917 918config RAW_DRIVER 919 tristate "RAW driver (/dev/raw/rawN) (OBSOLETE)" 920 help 921 The raw driver permits block devices to be bound to /dev/raw/rawN. 922 Once bound, I/O against /dev/raw/rawN uses efficient zero-copy I/O. 923 See the raw(8) manpage for more details. 924 925 The raw driver is deprecated and may be removed from 2.7 926 kernels. Applications should simply open the device (eg /dev/hda1) 927 with the O_DIRECT flag. 928 929config HPET 930 bool "HPET - High Precision Event Timer" if (X86 || IA64) 931 default n 932 depends on ACPI 933 help 934 If you say Y here, you will have a miscdevice named "/dev/hpet/". Each 935 open selects one of the timers supported by the HPET. The timers are 936 non-periodioc and/or periodic. 937 938config HPET_RTC_IRQ 939 bool "HPET Control RTC IRQ" if !HPET_EMULATE_RTC 940 default n 941 depends on HPET 942 help 943 If you say Y here, you will disable RTC_IRQ in drivers/char/rtc.c. It 944 is assumed the platform called hpet_alloc with the RTC IRQ values for 945 the HPET timers. 946 947config HPET_MMAP 948 bool "Allow mmap of HPET" 949 default y 950 depends on HPET 951 help 952 If you say Y here, user applications will be able to mmap 953 the HPET registers. 954 955 In some hardware implementations, the page containing HPET 956 registers may also contain other things that shouldn't be 957 exposed to the user. If this applies to your hardware, 958 say N here. 959 960config MAX_RAW_DEVS 961 int "Maximum number of RAW devices to support (1-8192)" 962 depends on RAW_DRIVER 963 default "256" 964 help 965 The maximum number of RAW devices that are supported. 966 Default is 256. Increase this number in case you need lots of 967 raw devices. 968 969config HANGCHECK_TIMER 970 tristate "Hangcheck timer" 971 depends on X86_64 || X86 972 help 973 The hangcheck-timer module detects when the system has gone 974 out to lunch past a certain margin. It can reboot the system 975 or merely print a warning. 976 977config MMTIMER 978 tristate "MMTIMER Memory mapped RTC for SGI Altix" 979 depends on IA64_GENERIC || IA64_SGI_SN2 980 default y 981 help 982 The mmtimer device allows direct userspace access to the 983 Altix system timer. 984 985source "drivers/char/tpm/Kconfig" 986 987endmenu 988 989