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diff --git a/arch/um/Kconfig.char b/arch/um/Kconfig.char new file mode 100644 index 000000000000..62d87b71179b --- /dev/null +++ b/arch/um/Kconfig.char @@ -0,0 +1,214 @@ + +menu "Character Devices" + +config STDERR_CONSOLE + bool "stderr console" + default y + help + console driver which dumps all printk messages to stderr. + +config STDIO_CONSOLE + bool + default y + +config SSL + bool "Virtual serial line" + help + The User-Mode Linux environment allows you to create virtual serial + lines on the UML that are usually made to show up on the host as + ttys or ptys. + + See <http://user-mode-linux.sourceforge.net/input.html> for more + information and command line examples of how to use this facility. + + Unless you have a specific reason for disabling this, say Y. + +config NULL_CHAN + bool "null channel support" + help + This option enables support for attaching UML consoles and serial + lines to a device similar to /dev/null. Data written to it disappears + and there is never any data to be read. + +config PORT_CHAN + bool "port channel support" + help + This option enables support for attaching UML consoles and serial + lines to host portals. They may be accessed with 'telnet <host> + <port number>'. Any number of consoles and serial lines may be + attached to a single portal, although what UML device you get when + you telnet to that portal will be unpredictable. + It is safe to say 'Y' here. + +config PTY_CHAN + bool "pty channel support" + help + This option enables support for attaching UML consoles and serial + lines to host pseudo-terminals. Access to both traditional + pseudo-terminals (/dev/pty*) and pts pseudo-terminals are controlled + with this option. The assignment of UML devices to host devices + will be announced in the kernel message log. + It is safe to say 'Y' here. + +config TTY_CHAN + bool "tty channel support" + help + This option enables support for attaching UML consoles and serial + lines to host terminals. Access to both virtual consoles + (/dev/tty*) and the slave side of pseudo-terminals (/dev/ttyp* and + /dev/pts/*) are controlled by this option. + It is safe to say 'Y' here. + +config XTERM_CHAN + bool "xterm channel support" + help + This option enables support for attaching UML consoles and serial + lines to xterms. Each UML device so assigned will be brought up in + its own xterm. + If you disable this option, then CONFIG_PT_PROXY will be disabled as + well, since UML's gdb currently requires an xterm. + It is safe to say 'Y' here. + +config NOCONFIG_CHAN + bool + default !(XTERM_CHAN && TTY_CHAN && PTY_CHAN && PORT_CHAN && NULL_CHAN) + +config CON_ZERO_CHAN + string "Default main console channel initialization" + default "fd:0,fd:1" + help + This is the string describing the channel to which the main console + will be attached by default. This value can be overridden from the + command line. The default value is "fd:0,fd:1", which attaches the + main console to stdin and stdout. + It is safe to leave this unchanged. + +config CON_CHAN + string "Default console channel initialization" + default "xterm" + help + This is the string describing the channel to which all consoles + except the main console will be attached by default. This value can + be overridden from the command line. The default value is "xterm", + which brings them up in xterms. + It is safe to leave this unchanged, although you may wish to change + this if you expect the UML that you build to be run in environments + which don't have X or xterm available. + +config SSL_CHAN + string "Default serial line channel initialization" + default "pty" + help + This is the string describing the channel to which the serial lines + will be attached by default. This value can be overridden from the + command line. The default value is "pty", which attaches them to + traditional pseudo-terminals. + It is safe to leave this unchanged, although you may wish to change + this if you expect the UML that you build to be run in environments + which don't have a set of /dev/pty* devices. + +config UNIX98_PTYS + bool "Unix98 PTY support" + ---help--- + A pseudo terminal (PTY) is a software device consisting of two + halves: a master and a slave. The slave device behaves identical to + a physical terminal; the master device is used by a process to + read data from and write data to the slave, thereby emulating a + terminal. Typical programs for the master side are telnet servers + and xterms. + + Linux has traditionally used the BSD-like names /dev/ptyxx for + masters and /dev/ttyxx for slaves of pseudo terminals. This scheme + has a number of problems. The GNU C library glibc 2.1 and later, + however, supports the Unix98 naming standard: in order to acquire a + pseudo terminal, a process opens /dev/ptmx; the number of the pseudo + terminal is then made available to the process and the pseudo + terminal slave can be accessed as /dev/pts/<number>. What was + traditionally /dev/ttyp2 will then be /dev/pts/2, for example. + + All modern Linux systems use the Unix98 ptys. Say Y unless + you're on an embedded system and want to conserve memory. + +config LEGACY_PTYS + bool "Legacy (BSD) PTY support" + default y + ---help--- + A pseudo terminal (PTY) is a software device consisting of two + halves: a master and a slave. The slave device behaves identical to + a physical terminal; the master device is used by a process to + read data from and write data to the slave, thereby emulating a + terminal. Typical programs for the master side are telnet servers + and xterms. + + Linux has traditionally used the BSD-like names /dev/ptyxx + for masters and /dev/ttyxx for slaves of pseudo + terminals. This scheme has a number of problems, including + security. This option enables these legacy devices; on most + systems, it is safe to say N. + + +config LEGACY_PTY_COUNT + int "Maximum number of legacy PTY in use" + depends on LEGACY_PTYS + default "256" + ---help--- + The maximum number of legacy PTYs that can be used at any one time. + The default is 256, and should be more than enough. Embedded + systems may want to reduce this to save memory. + + When not in use, each legacy PTY occupies 12 bytes on 32-bit + architectures and 24 bytes on 64-bit architectures. + +config WATCHDOG + bool "Watchdog Timer Support" + +config WATCHDOG_NOWAYOUT + bool "Disable watchdog shutdown on close" + depends on WATCHDOG + +config SOFT_WATCHDOG + tristate "Software Watchdog" + depends on WATCHDOG + +config UML_WATCHDOG + tristate "UML watchdog" + depends on WATCHDOG + +config UML_SOUND + tristate "Sound support" + help + This option enables UML sound support. If enabled, it will pull in + soundcore and the UML hostaudio relay, which acts as a intermediary + between the host's dsp and mixer devices and the UML sound system. + It is safe to say 'Y' here. + +config SOUND + tristate + default UML_SOUND + +config HOSTAUDIO + tristate + default UML_SOUND + +config UML_RANDOM + tristate "Hardware random number generator" + help + This option enables UML's "hardware" random number generator. It + attaches itself to the host's /dev/random, supplying as much entropy + as the host has, rather than the small amount the UML gets from its + own drivers. It registers itself as a standard hardware random number + generator, major 10, minor 183, and the canonical device name is + /dev/hwrng. + The way to make use of this is to install the rng-tools package + (check your distro, or download from + http://sourceforge.net/projects/gkernel/). rngd periodically reads + /dev/hwrng and injects the entropy into /dev/random. + +config MMAPPER + tristate "iomem emulation driver" + help + This driver allows a host file to be used as emulated IO memory inside + UML. + +endmenu + |