2 menu "Character Devices"
8 console driver which dumps all printk messages to stderr.
15 bool "Virtual serial line"
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
21 See <http://user-mode-linux.sourceforge.net/input.html> for more
22 information and command line examples of how to use this facility.
24 Unless you have a specific reason for disabling this, say Y.
27 bool "null channel support"
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.
34 bool "port channel support"
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.
44 bool "pty channel support"
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.
54 bool "tty channel support"
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.
63 bool "xterm channel support"
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
68 If you disable this option, then CONFIG_PT_PROXY will be disabled as
69 well, since UML's gdb currently requires an xterm.
70 It is safe to say 'Y' here.
74 default !(XTERM_CHAN && TTY_CHAN && PTY_CHAN && PORT_CHAN && NULL_CHAN)
77 string "Default main console channel initialization"
80 This is the string describing the channel to which the main console
81 will be attached by default. This value can be overridden from the
82 command line. The default value is "fd:0,fd:1", which attaches the
83 main console to stdin and stdout.
84 It is safe to leave this unchanged.
87 string "Default console channel initialization"
90 This is the string describing the channel to which all consoles
91 except the main console will be attached by default. This value can
92 be overridden from the command line. The default value is "xterm",
93 which brings them up in xterms.
94 It is safe to leave this unchanged, although you may wish to change
95 this if you expect the UML that you build to be run in environments
96 which don't have X or xterm available.
99 string "Default serial line channel initialization"
102 This is the string describing the channel to which the serial lines
103 will be attached by default. This value can be overridden from the
104 command line. The default value is "pty", which attaches them to
105 traditional pseudo-terminals.
106 It is safe to leave this unchanged, although you may wish to change
107 this if you expect the UML that you build to be run in environments
108 which don't have a set of /dev/pty* devices.
111 bool "Unix98 PTY support"
113 A pseudo terminal (PTY) is a software device consisting of two
114 halves: a master and a slave. The slave device behaves identical to
115 a physical terminal; the master device is used by a process to
116 read data from and write data to the slave, thereby emulating a
117 terminal. Typical programs for the master side are telnet servers
120 Linux has traditionally used the BSD-like names /dev/ptyxx for
121 masters and /dev/ttyxx for slaves of pseudo terminals. This scheme
122 has a number of problems. The GNU C library glibc 2.1 and later,
123 however, supports the Unix98 naming standard: in order to acquire a
124 pseudo terminal, a process opens /dev/ptmx; the number of the pseudo
125 terminal is then made available to the process and the pseudo
126 terminal slave can be accessed as /dev/pts/<number>. What was
127 traditionally /dev/ttyp2 will then be /dev/pts/2, for example.
129 All modern Linux systems use the Unix98 ptys. Say Y unless
130 you're on an embedded system and want to conserve memory.
133 bool "Legacy (BSD) PTY support"
136 A pseudo terminal (PTY) is a software device consisting of two
137 halves: a master and a slave. The slave device behaves identical to
138 a physical terminal; the master device is used by a process to
139 read data from and write data to the slave, thereby emulating a
140 terminal. Typical programs for the master side are telnet servers
143 Linux has traditionally used the BSD-like names /dev/ptyxx
144 for masters and /dev/ttyxx for slaves of pseudo
145 terminals. This scheme has a number of problems, including
146 security. This option enables these legacy devices; on most
147 systems, it is safe to say N.
150 config LEGACY_PTY_COUNT
151 int "Maximum number of legacy PTY in use"
152 depends on LEGACY_PTYS
155 The maximum number of legacy PTYs that can be used at any one time.
156 The default is 256, and should be more than enough. Embedded
157 systems may want to reduce this to save memory.
159 When not in use, each legacy PTY occupies 12 bytes on 32-bit
160 architectures and 24 bytes on 64-bit architectures.
163 bool "Watchdog Timer Support"
165 config WATCHDOG_NOWAYOUT
166 bool "Disable watchdog shutdown on close"
170 tristate "Software Watchdog"
174 tristate "UML watchdog"
178 tristate "Sound support"
180 This option enables UML sound support. If enabled, it will pull in
181 soundcore and the UML hostaudio relay, which acts as a intermediary
182 between the host's dsp and mixer devices and the UML sound system.
183 It is safe to say 'Y' here.
194 tristate "Hardware random number generator"
196 This option enables UML's "hardware" random number generator. It
197 attaches itself to the host's /dev/random, supplying as much entropy
198 as the host has, rather than the small amount the UML gets from its
199 own drivers. It registers itself as a standard hardware random number
200 generator, major 10, minor 183, and the canonical device name is
202 The way to make use of this is to install the rng-tools package
203 (check your distro, or download from
204 http://sourceforge.net/projects/gkernel/). rngd periodically reads
205 /dev/hwrng and injects the entropy into /dev/random.