1# 2# Character device configuration 3# 4 5menu "Character devices" 6 7config VT 8 bool "Virtual terminal" if EMBEDDED 9 depends on !S390 10 select INPUT 11 default y if !VIOCONS 12 ---help--- 13 If you say Y here, you will get support for terminal devices with 14 display and keyboard devices. These are called "virtual" because you 15 can run several virtual terminals (also called virtual consoles) on 16 one physical terminal. This is rather useful, for example one 17 virtual terminal can collect system messages and warnings, another 18 one can be used for a text-mode user session, and a third could run 19 an X session, all in parallel. Switching between virtual terminals 20 is done with certain key combinations, usually Alt-<function key>. 21 22 The setterm command ("man setterm") can be used to change the 23 properties (such as colors or beeping) of a virtual terminal. The 24 man page console_codes(4) ("man console_codes") contains the special 25 character sequences that can be used to change those properties 26 directly. The fonts used on virtual terminals can be changed with 27 the setfont ("man setfont") command and the key bindings are defined 28 with the loadkeys ("man loadkeys") command. 29 30 You need at least one virtual terminal device in order to make use 31 of your keyboard and monitor. Therefore, only people configuring an 32 embedded system would want to say N here in order to save some 33 memory; the only way to log into such a system is then via a serial 34 or network connection. 35 36 If unsure, say Y, or else you won't be able to do much with your new 37 shiny Linux system :-) 38 39config VT_CONSOLE 40 bool "Support for console on virtual terminal" if EMBEDDED 41 depends on VT 42 default y 43 ---help--- 44 The system console is the device which receives all kernel messages 45 and warnings and which allows logins in single user mode. If you 46 answer Y here, a virtual terminal (the device used to interact with 47 a physical terminal) can be used as system console. This is the most 48 common mode of operations, so you should say Y here unless you want 49 the kernel messages be output only to a serial port (in which case 50 you should say Y to "Console on serial port", below). 51 52 If you do say Y here, by default the currently visible virtual 53 terminal (/dev/tty0) will be used as system console. You can change 54 that with a kernel command line option such as "console=tty3" which 55 would use the third virtual terminal as system console. (Try "man 56 bootparam" or see the documentation of your boot loader (lilo or 57 loadlin) about how to pass options to the kernel at boot time.) 58 59 If unsure, say Y. 60 61config HW_CONSOLE 62 bool 63 depends on VT && !S390 && !UML 64 default y 65 66config VT_HW_CONSOLE_BINDING 67 bool "Support for binding and unbinding console drivers" 68 depends on HW_CONSOLE 69 default n 70 ---help--- 71 The virtual terminal is the device that interacts with the physical 72 terminal through console drivers. On these systems, at least one 73 console driver is loaded. In other configurations, additional console 74 drivers may be enabled, such as the framebuffer console. If more than 75 1 console driver is enabled, setting this to 'y' will allow you to 76 select the console driver that will serve as the backend for the 77 virtual terminals. 78 79 See <file:Documentation/console/console.txt> for more 80 information. For framebuffer console users, please refer to 81 <file:Documentation/fb/fbcon.txt>. 82 83config SERIAL_NONSTANDARD 84 bool "Non-standard serial port support" 85 depends on HAS_IOMEM 86 ---help--- 87 Say Y here if you have any non-standard serial boards -- boards 88 which aren't supported using the standard "dumb" serial driver. 89 This includes intelligent serial boards such as Cyclades, 90 Digiboards, etc. These are usually used for systems that need many 91 serial ports because they serve many terminals or dial-in 92 connections. 93 94 Note that the answer to this question won't directly affect the 95 kernel: saying N will just cause the configurator to skip all 96 the questions about non-standard serial boards. 97 98 Most people can say N here. 99 100config COMPUTONE 101 tristate "Computone IntelliPort Plus serial support" 102 depends on SERIAL_NONSTANDARD && (ISA || EISA || PCI) 103 ---help--- 104 This driver supports the entire family of Intelliport II/Plus 105 controllers with the exception of the MicroChannel controllers and 106 products previous to the Intelliport II. These are multiport cards, 107 which give you many serial ports. You would need something like this 108 to connect more than two modems to your Linux box, for instance in 109 order to become a dial-in server. If you have a card like that, say 110 Y here and read <file:Documentation/computone.txt>. 111 112 To compile this driver as modules, choose M here: the 113 modules will be called ip2 and ip2main. 114 115config ROCKETPORT 116 tristate "Comtrol RocketPort support" 117 depends on SERIAL_NONSTANDARD 118 help 119 This driver supports Comtrol RocketPort and RocketModem PCI boards. 120 These boards provide 2, 4, 8, 16, or 32 high-speed serial ports or 121 modems. For information about the RocketPort/RocketModem boards 122 and this driver read <file:Documentation/rocket.txt>. 123 124 To compile this driver as a module, choose M here: the 125 module will be called rocket. 126 127 If you want to compile this driver into the kernel, say Y here. If 128 you don't have a Comtrol RocketPort/RocketModem card installed, say N. 129 130config CYCLADES 131 tristate "Cyclades async mux support" 132 depends on SERIAL_NONSTANDARD && (PCI || ISA) 133 ---help--- 134 This driver supports Cyclades Z and Y multiserial boards. 135 You would need something like this to connect more than two modems to 136 your Linux box, for instance in order to become a dial-in server. 137 138 For information about the Cyclades-Z card, read 139 <file:drivers/char/README.cycladesZ>. 140 141 To compile this driver as a module, choose M here: the 142 module will be called cyclades. 143 144 If you haven't heard about it, it's safe to say N. 145 146config CYZ_INTR 147 bool "Cyclades-Z interrupt mode operation (EXPERIMENTAL)" 148 depends on EXPERIMENTAL && CYCLADES 149 help 150 The Cyclades-Z family of multiport cards allows 2 (two) driver op 151 modes: polling and interrupt. In polling mode, the driver will check 152 the status of the Cyclades-Z ports every certain amount of time 153 (which is called polling cycle and is configurable). In interrupt 154 mode, it will use an interrupt line (IRQ) in order to check the 155 status of the Cyclades-Z ports. The default op mode is polling. If 156 unsure, say N. 157 158config DIGIEPCA 159 tristate "Digiboard Intelligent Async Support" 160 depends on SERIAL_NONSTANDARD 161 ---help--- 162 This is a driver for Digi International's Xx, Xeve, and Xem series 163 of cards which provide multiple serial ports. You would need 164 something like this to connect more than two modems to your Linux 165 box, for instance in order to become a dial-in server. This driver 166 supports the original PC (ISA) boards as well as PCI, and EISA. If 167 you have a card like this, say Y here and read the file 168 <file:Documentation/digiepca.txt>. 169 170 To compile this driver as a module, choose M here: the 171 module will be called epca. 172 173config ESPSERIAL 174 tristate "Hayes ESP serial port support" 175 depends on SERIAL_NONSTANDARD && ISA && ISA_DMA_API 176 help 177 This is a driver which supports Hayes ESP serial ports. Both single 178 port cards and multiport cards are supported. Make sure to read 179 <file:Documentation/hayes-esp.txt>. 180 181 To compile this driver as a module, choose M here: the 182 module will be called esp. 183 184 If unsure, say N. 185 186config MOXA_INTELLIO 187 tristate "Moxa Intellio support" 188 depends on SERIAL_NONSTANDARD 189 help 190 Say Y here if you have a Moxa Intellio multiport serial card. 191 192 To compile this driver as a module, choose M here: the 193 module will be called moxa. 194 195config MOXA_SMARTIO 196 tristate "Moxa SmartIO support (OBSOLETE)" 197 depends on SERIAL_NONSTANDARD 198 help 199 Say Y here if you have a Moxa SmartIO multiport serial card. 200 201 This driver can also be built as a module ( = code which can be 202 inserted in and removed from the running kernel whenever you want). 203 The module will be called mxser. If you want to do that, say M 204 here. 205 206config MOXA_SMARTIO_NEW 207 tristate "Moxa SmartIO support v. 2.0" 208 depends on SERIAL_NONSTANDARD && (PCI || EISA || ISA) 209 help 210 Say Y here if you have a Moxa SmartIO multiport serial card and/or 211 want to help develop a new version of this driver. 212 213 This is upgraded (1.9.1) driver from original Moxa drivers with 214 changes finally resulting in PCI probing. 215 216 Use at your own risk. 217 218 This driver can also be built as a module. The module will be called 219 mxser_new. If you want to do that, say M here. 220 221config ISI 222 tristate "Multi-Tech multiport card support (EXPERIMENTAL)" 223 depends on SERIAL_NONSTANDARD && PCI 224 select FW_LOADER 225 help 226 This is a driver for the Multi-Tech cards which provide several 227 serial ports. The driver is experimental and can currently only be 228 built as a module. The module will be called isicom. 229 If you want to do that, choose M here. 230 231config SYNCLINK 232 tristate "Microgate SyncLink card support" 233 depends on SERIAL_NONSTANDARD && PCI && ISA_DMA_API 234 help 235 Provides support for the SyncLink ISA and PCI multiprotocol serial 236 adapters. These adapters support asynchronous and HDLC bit 237 synchronous communication up to 10Mbps (PCI adapter). 238 239 This driver can only be built as a module ( = code which can be 240 inserted in and removed from the running kernel whenever you want). 241 The module will be called synclink. If you want to do that, say M 242 here. 243 244config SYNCLINKMP 245 tristate "SyncLink Multiport support" 246 depends on SERIAL_NONSTANDARD 247 help 248 Enable support for the SyncLink Multiport (2 or 4 ports) 249 serial adapter, running asynchronous and HDLC communications up 250 to 2.048Mbps. Each ports is independently selectable for 251 RS-232, V.35, RS-449, RS-530, and X.21 252 253 This driver may be built as a module ( = code which can be 254 inserted in and removed from the running kernel whenever you want). 255 The module will be called synclinkmp. If you want to do that, say M 256 here. 257 258config SYNCLINK_GT 259 tristate "SyncLink GT/AC support" 260 depends on SERIAL_NONSTANDARD && PCI 261 help 262 Support for SyncLink GT and SyncLink AC families of 263 synchronous and asynchronous serial adapters 264 manufactured by Microgate Systems, Ltd. (www.microgate.com) 265 266config N_HDLC 267 tristate "HDLC line discipline support" 268 depends on SERIAL_NONSTANDARD 269 help 270 Allows synchronous HDLC communications with tty device drivers that 271 support synchronous HDLC such as the Microgate SyncLink adapter. 272 273 This driver can only be built as a module ( = code which can be 274 inserted in and removed from the running kernel whenever you want). 275 The module will be called n_hdlc. If you want to do that, say M 276 here. 277 278config RISCOM8 279 tristate "SDL RISCom/8 card support" 280 depends on SERIAL_NONSTANDARD && BROKEN_ON_SMP 281 help 282 This is a driver for the SDL Communications RISCom/8 multiport card, 283 which gives you many serial ports. You would need something like 284 this to connect more than two modems to your Linux box, for instance 285 in order to become a dial-in server. If you have a card like that, 286 say Y here and read the file <file:Documentation/riscom8.txt>. 287 288 Also it's possible to say M here and compile this driver as kernel 289 loadable module; the module will be called riscom8. 290 291config SPECIALIX 292 tristate "Specialix IO8+ card support" 293 depends on SERIAL_NONSTANDARD 294 help 295 This is a driver for the Specialix IO8+ multiport card (both the 296 ISA and the PCI version) which gives you many serial ports. You 297 would need something like this to connect more than two modems to 298 your Linux box, for instance in order to become a dial-in server. 299 300 If you have a card like that, say Y here and read the file 301 <file:Documentation/specialix.txt>. Also it's possible to say M here 302 and compile this driver as kernel loadable module which will be 303 called specialix. 304 305config SPECIALIX_RTSCTS 306 bool "Specialix DTR/RTS pin is RTS" 307 depends on SPECIALIX 308 help 309 The Specialix IO8+ card can only support either RTS or DTR. If you 310 say N here, the driver will use the pin as "DTR" when the tty is in 311 software handshake mode. If you say Y here or hardware handshake is 312 on, it will always be RTS. Read the file 313 <file:Documentation/specialix.txt> for more information. 314 315config SX 316 tristate "Specialix SX (and SI) card support" 317 depends on SERIAL_NONSTANDARD && (PCI || EISA || ISA) 318 help 319 This is a driver for the SX and SI multiport serial cards. 320 Please read the file <file:Documentation/sx.txt> for details. 321 322 This driver can only be built as a module ( = code which can be 323 inserted in and removed from the running kernel whenever you want). 324 The module will be called sx. If you want to do that, say M here. 325 326config RIO 327 tristate "Specialix RIO system support" 328 depends on SERIAL_NONSTANDARD 329 help 330 This is a driver for the Specialix RIO, a smart serial card which 331 drives an outboard box that can support up to 128 ports. Product 332 information is at <http://www.perle.com/support/documentation.html#multiport>. 333 There are both ISA and PCI versions. 334 335config RIO_OLDPCI 336 bool "Support really old RIO/PCI cards" 337 depends on RIO 338 help 339 Older RIO PCI cards need some initialization-time configuration to 340 determine the IRQ and some control addresses. If you have a RIO and 341 this doesn't seem to work, try setting this to Y. 342 343config STALDRV 344 bool "Stallion multiport serial support" 345 depends on SERIAL_NONSTANDARD 346 help 347 Stallion cards give you many serial ports. You would need something 348 like this to connect more than two modems to your Linux box, for 349 instance in order to become a dial-in server. If you say Y here, 350 you will be asked for your specific card model in the next 351 questions. Make sure to read <file:Documentation/stallion.txt> in 352 this case. If you have never heard about all this, it's safe to 353 say N. 354 355config STALLION 356 tristate "Stallion EasyIO or EC8/32 support" 357 depends on STALDRV && BROKEN_ON_SMP 358 help 359 If you have an EasyIO or EasyConnection 8/32 multiport Stallion 360 card, then this is for you; say Y. Make sure to read 361 <file:Documentation/stallion.txt>. 362 363 To compile this driver as a module, choose M here: the 364 module will be called stallion. 365 366config ISTALLION 367 tristate "Stallion EC8/64, ONboard, Brumby support" 368 depends on STALDRV && BROKEN_ON_SMP 369 help 370 If you have an EasyConnection 8/64, ONboard, Brumby or Stallion 371 serial multiport card, say Y here. Make sure to read 372 <file:Documentation/stallion.txt>. 373 374 To compile this driver as a module, choose M here: the 375 module will be called istallion. 376 377config AU1000_UART 378 bool "Enable Au1000 UART Support" 379 depends on SERIAL_NONSTANDARD && MIPS 380 help 381 If you have an Alchemy AU1000 processor (MIPS based) and you want 382 to use serial ports, say Y. Otherwise, say N. 383 384config AU1000_SERIAL_CONSOLE 385 bool "Enable Au1000 serial console" 386 depends on AU1000_UART 387 help 388 If you have an Alchemy AU1000 processor (MIPS based) and you want 389 to use a console on a serial port, say Y. Otherwise, say N. 390 391config SERIAL_DEC 392 bool "DECstation serial support" 393 depends on MACH_DECSTATION 394 default y 395 help 396 This selects whether you want to be asked about drivers for 397 DECstation serial ports. 398 399 Note that the answer to this question won't directly affect the 400 kernel: saying N will just cause the configurator to skip all 401 the questions about DECstation serial ports. 402 403config SERIAL_DEC_CONSOLE 404 bool "Support for console on a DECstation serial port" 405 depends on SERIAL_DEC 406 default y 407 help 408 If you say Y here, it will be possible to use a serial port as the 409 system console (the system console is the device which receives all 410 kernel messages and warnings and which allows logins in single user 411 mode). Note that the firmware uses ttyS0 as the serial console on 412 the Maxine and ttyS2 on the others. 413 414 If unsure, say Y. 415 416config ZS 417 bool "Z85C30 Serial Support" 418 depends on SERIAL_DEC 419 default y 420 help 421 Documentation on the Zilog 85C350 serial communications controller 422 is downloadable at <http://www.zilog.com/pdfs/serial/z85c30.pdf> 423 424config A2232 425 tristate "Commodore A2232 serial support (EXPERIMENTAL)" 426 depends on EXPERIMENTAL && ZORRO && BROKEN_ON_SMP 427 ---help--- 428 This option supports the 2232 7-port serial card shipped with the 429 Amiga 2000 and other Zorro-bus machines, dating from 1989. At 430 a max of 19,200 bps, the ports are served by a 6551 ACIA UART chip 431 each, plus a 8520 CIA, and a master 6502 CPU and buffer as well. The 432 ports were connected with 8 pin DIN connectors on the card bracket, 433 for which 8 pin to DB25 adapters were supplied. The card also had 434 jumpers internally to toggle various pinning configurations. 435 436 This driver can be built as a module; but then "generic_serial" 437 will also be built as a module. This has to be loaded before 438 "ser_a2232". If you want to do this, answer M here. 439 440config SGI_SNSC 441 bool "SGI Altix system controller communication support" 442 depends on (IA64_SGI_SN2 || IA64_GENERIC) 443 help 444 If you have an SGI Altix and you want to enable system 445 controller communication from user space (you want this!), 446 say Y. Otherwise, say N. 447 448config SGI_TIOCX 449 bool "SGI TIO CX driver support" 450 depends on (IA64_SGI_SN2 || IA64_GENERIC) 451 help 452 If you have an SGI Altix and you have fpga devices attached 453 to your TIO, say Y here, otherwise say N. 454 455config SGI_MBCS 456 tristate "SGI FPGA Core Services driver support" 457 depends on SGI_TIOCX 458 help 459 If you have an SGI Altix with an attached SABrick 460 say Y or M here, otherwise say N. 461 462source "drivers/serial/Kconfig" 463 464config UNIX98_PTYS 465 bool "Unix98 PTY support" if EMBEDDED 466 default y 467 ---help--- 468 A pseudo terminal (PTY) is a software device consisting of two 469 halves: a master and a slave. The slave device behaves identical to 470 a physical terminal; the master device is used by a process to 471 read data from and write data to the slave, thereby emulating a 472 terminal. Typical programs for the master side are telnet servers 473 and xterms. 474 475 Linux has traditionally used the BSD-like names /dev/ptyxx for 476 masters and /dev/ttyxx for slaves of pseudo terminals. This scheme 477 has a number of problems. The GNU C library glibc 2.1 and later, 478 however, supports the Unix98 naming standard: in order to acquire a 479 pseudo terminal, a process opens /dev/ptmx; the number of the pseudo 480 terminal is then made available to the process and the pseudo 481 terminal slave can be accessed as /dev/pts/<number>. What was 482 traditionally /dev/ttyp2 will then be /dev/pts/2, for example. 483 484 All modern Linux systems use the Unix98 ptys. Say Y unless 485 you're on an embedded system and want to conserve memory. 486 487config LEGACY_PTYS 488 bool "Legacy (BSD) PTY support" 489 default y 490 ---help--- 491 A pseudo terminal (PTY) is a software device consisting of two 492 halves: a master and a slave. The slave device behaves identical to 493 a physical terminal; the master device is used by a process to 494 read data from and write data to the slave, thereby emulating a 495 terminal. Typical programs for the master side are telnet servers 496 and xterms. 497 498 Linux has traditionally used the BSD-like names /dev/ptyxx 499 for masters and /dev/ttyxx for slaves of pseudo 500 terminals. This scheme has a number of problems, including 501 security. This option enables these legacy devices; on most 502 systems, it is safe to say N. 503 504 505config LEGACY_PTY_COUNT 506 int "Maximum number of legacy PTY in use" 507 depends on LEGACY_PTYS 508 range 1 256 509 default "256" 510 ---help--- 511 The maximum number of legacy PTYs that can be used at any one time. 512 The default is 256, and should be more than enough. Embedded 513 systems may want to reduce this to save memory. 514 515 When not in use, each legacy PTY occupies 12 bytes on 32-bit 516 architectures and 24 bytes on 64-bit architectures. 517 518config BRIQ_PANEL 519 tristate 'Total Impact briQ front panel driver' 520 depends on PPC_CHRP 521 ---help--- 522 The briQ is a small footprint CHRP computer with a frontpanel VFD, a 523 tristate led and two switches. It is the size of a CDROM drive. 524 525 If you have such one and want anything showing on the VFD then you 526 must answer Y here. 527 528 To compile this driver as a module, choose M here: the 529 module will be called briq_panel. 530 531 It's safe to say N here. 532 533config PRINTER 534 tristate "Parallel printer support" 535 depends on PARPORT 536 ---help--- 537 If you intend to attach a printer to the parallel port of your Linux 538 box (as opposed to using a serial printer; if the connector at the 539 printer has 9 or 25 holes ["female"], then it's serial), say Y. 540 Also read the Printing-HOWTO, available from 541 <http://www.tldp.org/docs.html#howto>. 542 543 It is possible to share one parallel port among several devices 544 (e.g. printer and ZIP drive) and it is safe to compile the 545 corresponding drivers into the kernel. 546 547 To compile this driver as a module, choose M here and read 548 <file:Documentation/parport.txt>. The module will be called lp. 549 550 If you have several parallel ports, you can specify which ports to 551 use with the "lp" kernel command line option. (Try "man bootparam" 552 or see the documentation of your boot loader (lilo or loadlin) about 553 how to pass options to the kernel at boot time.) The syntax of the 554 "lp" command line option can be found in <file:drivers/char/lp.c>. 555 556 If you have more than 8 printers, you need to increase the LP_NO 557 macro in lp.c and the PARPORT_MAX macro in parport.h. 558 559config LP_CONSOLE 560 bool "Support for console on line printer" 561 depends on PRINTER 562 ---help--- 563 If you want kernel messages to be printed out as they occur, you 564 can have a console on the printer. This option adds support for 565 doing that; to actually get it to happen you need to pass the 566 option "console=lp0" to the kernel at boot time. 567 568 If the printer is out of paper (or off, or unplugged, or too 569 busy..) the kernel will stall until the printer is ready again. 570 By defining CONSOLE_LP_STRICT to 0 (at your own risk) you 571 can make the kernel continue when this happens, 572 but it'll lose the kernel messages. 573 574 If unsure, say N. 575 576config PPDEV 577 tristate "Support for user-space parallel port device drivers" 578 depends on PARPORT 579 ---help--- 580 Saying Y to this adds support for /dev/parport device nodes. This 581 is needed for programs that want portable access to the parallel 582 port, for instance deviceid (which displays Plug-and-Play device 583 IDs). 584 585 This is the parallel port equivalent of SCSI generic support (sg). 586 It is safe to say N to this -- it is not needed for normal printing 587 or parallel port CD-ROM/disk support. 588 589 To compile this driver as a module, choose M here: the 590 module will be called ppdev. 591 592 If unsure, say N. 593 594config TIPAR 595 tristate "Texas Instruments parallel link cable support" 596 depends on PARPORT 597 ---help--- 598 If you own a Texas Instruments graphing calculator and use a 599 parallel link cable, then you might be interested in this driver. 600 601 If you enable this driver, you will be able to communicate with 602 your calculator through a set of device nodes under /dev. The 603 main advantage of this driver is that you don't have to be root 604 to use this precise link cable (depending on the permissions on 605 the device nodes, though). 606 607 To compile this driver as a module, choose M here: the 608 module will be called tipar. 609 610 If you don't know what a parallel link cable is or what a Texas 611 Instruments graphing calculator is, then you probably don't need this 612 driver. 613 614 If unsure, say N. 615 616config HVC_DRIVER 617 bool 618 help 619 Users of pSeries machines that want to utilize the hvc console front-end 620 module for their backend console driver should select this option. 621 It will automatically be selected if one of the back-end console drivers 622 is selected. 623 624 625config HVC_CONSOLE 626 bool "pSeries Hypervisor Virtual Console support" 627 depends on PPC_PSERIES 628 select HVC_DRIVER 629 help 630 pSeries machines when partitioned support a hypervisor virtual 631 console. This driver allows each pSeries partition to have a console 632 which is accessed via the HMC. 633 634config HVC_ISERIES 635 bool "iSeries Hypervisor Virtual Console support" 636 depends on PPC_ISERIES 637 default y 638 select HVC_DRIVER 639 help 640 iSeries machines support a hypervisor virtual console. 641 642config HVC_RTAS 643 bool "IBM RTAS Console support" 644 depends on PPC_RTAS 645 select HVC_DRIVER 646 help 647 IBM Console device driver which makes use of RTAS 648 649config HVC_BEAT 650 bool "Toshiba's Beat Hypervisor Console support" 651 depends on PPC_CELLEB 652 select HVC_DRIVER 653 help 654 Toshiba's Cell Reference Set Beat Console device driver 655 656config HVCS 657 tristate "IBM Hypervisor Virtual Console Server support" 658 depends on PPC_PSERIES 659 help 660 Partitionable IBM Power5 ppc64 machines allow hosting of 661 firmware virtual consoles from one Linux partition by 662 another Linux partition. This driver allows console data 663 from Linux partitions to be accessed through TTY device 664 interfaces in the device tree of a Linux partition running 665 this driver. 666 667 To compile this driver as a module, choose M here: the 668 module will be called hvcs.ko. Additionally, this module 669 will depend on arch specific APIs exported from hvcserver.ko 670 which will also be compiled when this driver is built as a 671 module. 672 673source "drivers/char/ipmi/Kconfig" 674 675source "drivers/char/watchdog/Kconfig" 676 677config DS1620 678 tristate "NetWinder thermometer support" 679 depends on ARCH_NETWINDER 680 help 681 Say Y here to include support for the thermal management hardware 682 found in the NetWinder. This driver allows the user to control the 683 temperature set points and to read the current temperature. 684 685 It is also possible to say M here to build it as a module (ds1620) 686 It is recommended to be used on a NetWinder, but it is not a 687 necessity. 688 689config NWBUTTON 690 tristate "NetWinder Button" 691 depends on ARCH_NETWINDER 692 ---help--- 693 If you say Y here and create a character device node /dev/nwbutton 694 with major and minor numbers 10 and 158 ("man mknod"), then every 695 time the orange button is pressed a number of times, the number of 696 times the button was pressed will be written to that device. 697 698 This is most useful for applications, as yet unwritten, which 699 perform actions based on how many times the button is pressed in a 700 row. 701 702 Do not hold the button down for too long, as the driver does not 703 alter the behaviour of the hardware reset circuitry attached to the 704 button; it will still execute a hard reset if the button is held 705 down for longer than approximately five seconds. 706 707 To compile this driver as a module, choose M here: the 708 module will be called nwbutton. 709 710 Most people will answer Y to this question and "Reboot Using Button" 711 below to be able to initiate a system shutdown from the button. 712 713config NWBUTTON_REBOOT 714 bool "Reboot Using Button" 715 depends on NWBUTTON 716 help 717 If you say Y here, then you will be able to initiate a system 718 shutdown and reboot by pressing the orange button a number of times. 719 The number of presses to initiate the shutdown is two by default, 720 but this can be altered by modifying the value of NUM_PRESSES_REBOOT 721 in nwbutton.h and recompiling the driver or, if you compile the 722 driver as a module, you can specify the number of presses at load 723 time with "insmod button reboot_count=<something>". 724 725config NWFLASH 726 tristate "NetWinder flash support" 727 depends on ARCH_NETWINDER 728 ---help--- 729 If you say Y here and create a character device /dev/flash with 730 major 10 and minor 160 you can manipulate the flash ROM containing 731 the NetWinder firmware. Be careful as accidentally overwriting the 732 flash contents can render your computer unbootable. On no account 733 allow random users access to this device. :-) 734 735 To compile this driver as a module, choose M here: the 736 module will be called nwflash. 737 738 If you're not sure, say N. 739 740source "drivers/char/hw_random/Kconfig" 741 742config NVRAM 743 tristate "/dev/nvram support" 744 depends on ATARI || X86 || ARM || GENERIC_NVRAM 745 ---help--- 746 If you say Y here and create a character special file /dev/nvram 747 with major number 10 and minor number 144 using mknod ("man mknod"), 748 you get read and write access to the extra bytes of non-volatile 749 memory in the real time clock (RTC), which is contained in every PC 750 and most Ataris. The actual number of bytes varies, depending on the 751 nvram in the system, but is usually 114 (128-14 for the RTC). 752 753 This memory is conventionally called "CMOS RAM" on PCs and "NVRAM" 754 on Ataris. /dev/nvram may be used to view settings there, or to 755 change them (with some utility). It could also be used to frequently 756 save a few bits of very important data that may not be lost over 757 power-off and for which writing to disk is too insecure. Note 758 however that most NVRAM space in a PC belongs to the BIOS and you 759 should NEVER idly tamper with it. See Ralf Brown's interrupt list 760 for a guide to the use of CMOS bytes by your BIOS. 761 762 On Atari machines, /dev/nvram is always configured and does not need 763 to be selected. 764 765 To compile this driver as a module, choose M here: the 766 module will be called nvram. 767 768config RTC 769 tristate "Enhanced Real Time Clock Support" 770 depends on !PPC && !PARISC && !IA64 && !M68K && (!SPARC || PCI) && !FRV && !ARM && !SUPERH && !S390 771 ---help--- 772 If you say Y here and create a character special file /dev/rtc with 773 major number 10 and minor number 135 using mknod ("man mknod"), you 774 will get access to the real time clock (or hardware clock) built 775 into your computer. 776 777 Every PC has such a clock built in. It can be used to generate 778 signals from as low as 1Hz up to 8192Hz, and can also be used 779 as a 24 hour alarm. It reports status information via the file 780 /proc/driver/rtc and its behaviour is set by various ioctls on 781 /dev/rtc. 782 783 If you run Linux on a multiprocessor machine and said Y to 784 "Symmetric Multi Processing" above, you should say Y here to read 785 and set the RTC in an SMP compatible fashion. 786 787 If you think you have a use for such a device (such as periodic data 788 sampling), then say Y here, and read <file:Documentation/rtc.txt> 789 for details. 790 791 To compile this driver as a module, choose M here: the 792 module will be called rtc. 793 794config SGI_DS1286 795 tristate "SGI DS1286 RTC support" 796 depends on SGI_IP22 797 help 798 If you say Y here and create a character special file /dev/rtc with 799 major number 10 and minor number 135 using mknod ("man mknod"), you 800 will get access to the real time clock built into your computer. 801 Every SGI has such a clock built in. It reports status information 802 via the file /proc/rtc and its behaviour is set by various ioctls on 803 /dev/rtc. 804 805config SGI_IP27_RTC 806 bool "SGI M48T35 RTC support" 807 depends on SGI_IP27 808 help 809 If you say Y here and create a character special file /dev/rtc with 810 major number 10 and minor number 135 using mknod ("man mknod"), you 811 will get access to the real time clock built into your computer. 812 Every SGI has such a clock built in. It reports status information 813 via the file /proc/rtc and its behaviour is set by various ioctls on 814 /dev/rtc. 815 816config GEN_RTC 817 tristate "Generic /dev/rtc emulation" 818 depends on RTC!=y && !IA64 && !ARM && !M32R && !SPARC && !FRV && !S390 && !SUPERH 819 ---help--- 820 If you say Y here and create a character special file /dev/rtc with 821 major number 10 and minor number 135 using mknod ("man mknod"), you 822 will get access to the real time clock (or hardware clock) built 823 into your computer. 824 825 It reports status information via the file /proc/driver/rtc and its 826 behaviour is set by various ioctls on /dev/rtc. If you enable the 827 "extended RTC operation" below it will also provide an emulation 828 for RTC_UIE which is required by some programs and may improve 829 precision in some cases. 830 831 To compile this driver as a module, choose M here: the 832 module will be called genrtc. 833 834config GEN_RTC_X 835 bool "Extended RTC operation" 836 depends on GEN_RTC 837 help 838 Provides an emulation for RTC_UIE which is required by some programs 839 and may improve precision of the generic RTC support in some cases. 840 841config EFI_RTC 842 bool "EFI Real Time Clock Services" 843 depends on IA64 844 845config DS1302 846 tristate "DS1302 RTC support" 847 depends on M32R && (PLAT_M32700UT || PLAT_OPSPUT) 848 help 849 If you say Y here and create a character special file /dev/rtc with 850 major number 121 and minor number 0 using mknod ("man mknod"), you 851 will get access to the real time clock (or hardware clock) built 852 into your computer. 853 854config COBALT_LCD 855 bool "Support for Cobalt LCD" 856 depends on MIPS_COBALT 857 help 858 This option enables support for the LCD display and buttons found 859 on Cobalt systems through a misc device. 860 861config DTLK 862 tristate "Double Talk PC internal speech card support" 863 depends on ISA 864 help 865 This driver is for the DoubleTalk PC, a speech synthesizer 866 manufactured by RC Systems (<http://www.rcsys.com/>). It is also 867 called the `internal DoubleTalk'. 868 869 To compile this driver as a module, choose M here: the 870 module will be called dtlk. 871 872config R3964 873 tristate "Siemens R3964 line discipline" 874 ---help--- 875 This driver allows synchronous communication with devices using the 876 Siemens R3964 packet protocol. Unless you are dealing with special 877 hardware like PLCs, you are unlikely to need this. 878 879 To compile this driver as a module, choose M here: the 880 module will be called n_r3964. 881 882 If unsure, say N. 883 884config APPLICOM 885 tristate "Applicom intelligent fieldbus card support" 886 depends on PCI 887 ---help--- 888 This driver provides the kernel-side support for the intelligent 889 fieldbus cards made by Applicom International. More information 890 about these cards can be found on the WWW at the address 891 <http://www.applicom-int.com/>, or by email from David Woodhouse 892 <dwmw2@infradead.org>. 893 894 To compile this driver as a module, choose M here: the 895 module will be called applicom. 896 897 If unsure, say N. 898 899config SONYPI 900 tristate "Sony Vaio Programmable I/O Control Device support (EXPERIMENTAL)" 901 depends on EXPERIMENTAL && X86 && PCI && INPUT && !64BIT 902 ---help--- 903 This driver enables access to the Sony Programmable I/O Control 904 Device which can be found in many (all ?) Sony Vaio laptops. 905 906 If you have one of those laptops, read 907 <file:Documentation/sonypi.txt>, and say Y or M here. 908 909 To compile this driver as a module, choose M here: the 910 module will be called sonypi. 911 912config GPIO_TB0219 913 tristate "TANBAC TB0219 GPIO support" 914 depends on TANBAC_TB022X 915 select GPIO_VR41XX 916 917source "drivers/char/agp/Kconfig" 918 919source "drivers/char/drm/Kconfig" 920 921source "drivers/char/pcmcia/Kconfig" 922 923config MWAVE 924 tristate "ACP Modem (Mwave) support" 925 depends on X86 926 select SERIAL_8250 927 ---help--- 928 The ACP modem (Mwave) for Linux is a WinModem. It is composed of a 929 kernel driver and a user level application. Together these components 930 support direct attachment to public switched telephone networks (PSTNs) 931 and support selected world wide countries. 932 933 This version of the ACP Modem driver supports the IBM Thinkpad 600E, 934 600, and 770 that include on board ACP modem hardware. 935 936 The modem also supports the standard communications port interface 937 (ttySx) and is compatible with the Hayes AT Command Set. 938 939 The user level application needed to use this driver can be found at 940 the IBM Linux Technology Center (LTC) web site: 941 <http://www.ibm.com/linux/ltc/>. 942 943 If you own one of the above IBM Thinkpads which has the Mwave chipset 944 in it, say Y. 945 946 To compile this driver as a module, choose M here: the 947 module will be called mwave. 948 949config SCx200_GPIO 950 tristate "NatSemi SCx200 GPIO Support" 951 depends on SCx200 952 select NSC_GPIO 953 help 954 Give userspace access to the GPIO pins on the National 955 Semiconductor SCx200 processors. 956 957 If compiled as a module, it will be called scx200_gpio. 958 959config PC8736x_GPIO 960 tristate "NatSemi PC8736x GPIO Support" 961 depends on X86 962 default SCx200_GPIO # mostly N 963 select NSC_GPIO # needed for support routines 964 help 965 Give userspace access to the GPIO pins on the National 966 Semiconductor PC-8736x (x=[03456]) SuperIO chip. The chip 967 has multiple functional units, inc several managed by 968 hwmon/pc87360 driver. Tested with PC-87366 969 970 If compiled as a module, it will be called pc8736x_gpio. 971 972config NSC_GPIO 973 tristate "NatSemi Base GPIO Support" 974 depends on X86_32 975 # selected by SCx200_GPIO and PC8736x_GPIO 976 # what about 2 selectors differing: m != y 977 help 978 Common support used (and needed) by scx200_gpio and 979 pc8736x_gpio drivers. If those drivers are built as 980 modules, this one will be too, named nsc_gpio 981 982config CS5535_GPIO 983 tristate "AMD CS5535/CS5536 GPIO (Geode Companion Device)" 984 depends on X86_32 985 help 986 Give userspace access to the GPIO pins on the AMD CS5535 and 987 CS5536 Geode companion devices. 988 989 If compiled as a module, it will be called cs5535_gpio. 990 991config GPIO_VR41XX 992 tristate "NEC VR4100 series General-purpose I/O Unit support" 993 depends on CPU_VR41XX 994 995config RAW_DRIVER 996 tristate "RAW driver (/dev/raw/rawN) (OBSOLETE)" 997 depends on BLOCK 998 help 999 The raw driver permits block devices to be bound to /dev/raw/rawN. 1000 Once bound, I/O against /dev/raw/rawN uses efficient zero-copy I/O. 1001 See the raw(8) manpage for more details. 1002 1003 The raw driver is deprecated and will be removed soon. 1004 Applications should simply open the device (eg /dev/hda1) 1005 with the O_DIRECT flag. 1006 1007config MAX_RAW_DEVS 1008 int "Maximum number of RAW devices to support (1-8192)" 1009 depends on RAW_DRIVER 1010 default "256" 1011 help 1012 The maximum number of RAW devices that are supported. 1013 Default is 256. Increase this number in case you need lots of 1014 raw devices. 1015 1016config HPET 1017 bool "HPET - High Precision Event Timer" if (X86 || IA64) 1018 default n 1019 depends on ACPI 1020 help 1021 If you say Y here, you will have a miscdevice named "/dev/hpet/". Each 1022 open selects one of the timers supported by the HPET. The timers are 1023 non-periodic and/or periodic. 1024 1025config HPET_RTC_IRQ 1026 bool "HPET Control RTC IRQ" if !HPET_EMULATE_RTC 1027 default n 1028 depends on HPET 1029 help 1030 If you say Y here, you will disable RTC_IRQ in drivers/char/rtc.c. It 1031 is assumed the platform called hpet_alloc with the RTC IRQ values for 1032 the HPET timers. 1033 1034config HPET_MMAP 1035 bool "Allow mmap of HPET" 1036 default y 1037 depends on HPET 1038 help 1039 If you say Y here, user applications will be able to mmap 1040 the HPET registers. 1041 1042 In some hardware implementations, the page containing HPET 1043 registers may also contain other things that shouldn't be 1044 exposed to the user. If this applies to your hardware, 1045 say N here. 1046 1047config HANGCHECK_TIMER 1048 tristate "Hangcheck timer" 1049 depends on X86 || IA64 || PPC64 || S390 1050 help 1051 The hangcheck-timer module detects when the system has gone 1052 out to lunch past a certain margin. It can reboot the system 1053 or merely print a warning. 1054 1055config MMTIMER 1056 tristate "MMTIMER Memory mapped RTC for SGI Altix" 1057 depends on IA64_GENERIC || IA64_SGI_SN2 1058 default y 1059 help 1060 The mmtimer device allows direct userspace access to the 1061 Altix system timer. 1062 1063source "drivers/char/tpm/Kconfig" 1064 1065config TELCLOCK 1066 tristate "Telecom clock driver for ATCA SBC" 1067 depends on EXPERIMENTAL && X86 1068 default n 1069 help 1070 The telecom clock device is specific to the MPCBL0010 and MPCBL0050 1071 ATCA computers and allows direct userspace access to the 1072 configuration of the telecom clock configuration settings. This 1073 device is used for hardware synchronization across the ATCA backplane 1074 fabric. Upon loading, the driver exports a sysfs directory, 1075 /sys/devices/platform/telco_clock, with a number of files for 1076 controlling the behavior of this hardware. 1077 1078config DEVPORT 1079 bool 1080 depends on !M68K 1081 depends on ISA || PCI 1082 default y 1083 1084source "drivers/s390/char/Kconfig" 1085 1086endmenu 1087 1088