1 # SPDX-License-Identifier: GPL-2.0
3 # The 8250/16550 serial drivers. You shouldn't be in this list unless
4 # you somehow have an implicit or explicit dependency on SERIAL_8250.
8 tristate "8250/16550 and compatible serial support"
11 select SERIAL_MCTRL_GPIO if GPIOLIB
13 This selects whether you want to include the driver for the standard
14 serial ports. The standard answer is Y. People who might say N
15 here are those that are setting up dedicated Ethernet WWW/FTP
16 servers, or users that have one of the various bus mice instead of a
17 serial mouse and don't intend to use their machine's standard serial
18 port for anything. (Note that the Cyclades multi serial port driver
19 does not need this driver built in for it to work.)
21 To compile this driver as a module, choose M here: the
22 module will be called 8250.
23 [WARNING: Do not compile this driver as a module if you are using
24 non-standard serial ports, since the configuration information will
25 be lost when the driver is unloaded. This limitation may be lifted
28 BTW1: If you have a mouseman serial mouse which is not recognized by
29 the X window system, try running gpm first.
31 BTW2: If you intend to use a software modem (also called Winmodem)
32 under Linux, forget it. These modems are crippled and require
33 proprietary drivers which are only available under Windows.
35 Most people will say Y or M here, so that they can use serial mice,
36 modems and similar devices connecting to the standard serial ports.
38 config SERIAL_8250_DEPRECATED_OPTIONS
39 bool "Support 8250_core.* kernel options (DEPRECATED)"
40 depends on SERIAL_8250
43 In 3.7 we renamed 8250 to 8250_core by mistake, so now we have to
44 accept kernel parameters in both forms like 8250_core.nr_uarts=4 and
45 8250.nr_uarts=4. We now renamed the module back to 8250, but if
46 anybody noticed in 3.7 and changed their userspace we still have to
47 keep the 8250_core.* options around until they revert the changes
50 If 8250 is built as a module, this adds 8250_core alias instead.
52 If you did not notice yet and/or you have userspace from pre-3.7, it
53 is safe (and recommended) to say N here.
55 config SERIAL_8250_PNP
56 bool "8250/16550 PNP device support" if EXPERT
57 depends on SERIAL_8250 && PNP
60 This builds standard PNP serial support. You may be able to
61 disable this feature if you only need legacy serial support.
63 config SERIAL_8250_16550A_VARIANTS
64 bool "Support for variants of the 16550A serial port"
65 depends on SERIAL_8250
68 The 8250 driver can probe for many variants of the venerable 16550A
69 serial port. Doing so takes additional time at boot.
71 On modern systems, especially those using serial only for a simple
72 console, you can say N here.
74 config SERIAL_8250_FINTEK
75 bool "Support for Fintek F81216A LPC to 4 UART RS485 API"
76 depends on SERIAL_8250
78 Selecting this option will add support for the RS485 capabilities
79 of the Fintek F81216A LPC to 4 UART.
81 If this option is not selected the device will be configured as a
82 standard 16550A serial port.
86 config SERIAL_8250_CONSOLE
87 bool "Console on 8250/16550 and compatible serial port"
88 depends on SERIAL_8250=y
89 select SERIAL_CORE_CONSOLE
90 select SERIAL_EARLYCON
92 If you say Y here, it will be possible to use a serial port as the
93 system console (the system console is the device which receives all
94 kernel messages and warnings and which allows logins in single user
95 mode). This could be useful if some terminal or printer is connected
98 Even if you say Y here, the currently visible virtual console
99 (/dev/tty0) will still be used as the system console by default, but
100 you can alter that using a kernel command line option such as
101 "console=ttyS1". (Try "man bootparam" or see the documentation of
102 your boot loader (grub or lilo or loadlin) about how to pass options
103 to the kernel at boot time.)
105 If you don't have a VGA card installed and you say Y here, the
106 kernel will automatically use the first serial line, /dev/ttyS0, as
109 You can set that using a kernel command line option such as
110 "console=uart8250,io,0x3f8,9600n8"
111 "console=uart8250,mmio,0xff5e0000,115200n8".
112 and it will switch to normal serial console when the corresponding
114 "earlycon=uart8250,io,0x3f8,9600n8"
115 "earlycon=uart8250,mmio,0xff5e0000,115200n8".
116 it will not only setup early console.
120 config SERIAL_8250_GSC
122 depends on SERIAL_8250 && GSC
125 config SERIAL_8250_DMA
126 bool "DMA support for 16550 compatible UART controllers" if EXPERT
127 depends on SERIAL_8250 && DMADEVICES=y
130 This builds DMA support that can be used with 8250/16650
131 compatible UART controllers that support DMA signaling.
133 config SERIAL_8250_PCI
134 tristate "8250/16550 PCI device support"
135 depends on SERIAL_8250 && PCI
138 This builds standard PCI serial support. You may be able to
139 disable this feature if you only need legacy serial support.
141 Note that serial ports on NetMos 9835 Multi-I/O cards are handled
142 by the parport_serial driver, enabled with CONFIG_PARPORT_SERIAL.
144 config SERIAL_8250_EXAR
145 tristate "8250/16550 Exar/Commtech PCI/PCIe device support"
146 depends on SERIAL_8250_PCI
149 This builds support for XR17C1xx, XR17V3xx and some Commtech
150 422x PCIe serial cards that are not covered by the more generic
151 SERIAL_8250_PCI option.
153 config SERIAL_8250_HP300
155 depends on SERIAL_8250 && HP300
158 config SERIAL_8250_CS
159 tristate "8250/16550 PCMCIA device support"
160 depends on PCMCIA && SERIAL_8250
162 Say Y here to enable support for 16-bit PCMCIA serial devices,
163 including serial port cards, modems, and the modem functions of
164 multi-function Ethernet/modem cards. (PCMCIA- or PC-cards are
165 credit-card size devices often used with laptops.)
167 To compile this driver as a module, choose M here: the
168 module will be called serial_cs.
172 config SERIAL_8250_MEN_MCB
173 tristate "MEN MCB UART device support"
174 depends on MCB && SERIAL_8250
176 This enables support for FPGA based UARTs found on many MEN
177 boards. This driver enables support for the 16z025, 16z057
180 To compile this driver as a module, chose M here: the
181 module will be called 8250_men_mcb.
184 config SERIAL_8250_NR_UARTS
185 int "Maximum number of 8250/16550 serial ports"
186 depends on SERIAL_8250
189 Set this to the number of serial ports you want the driver
190 to support. This includes any ports discovered via ACPI or
191 PCI enumeration and any ports that may be added at run-time
192 via hot-plug, or any ISA multi-port serial cards.
194 config SERIAL_8250_RUNTIME_UARTS
195 int "Number of 8250/16550 serial ports to register at runtime"
196 depends on SERIAL_8250
197 range 0 SERIAL_8250_NR_UARTS
200 Set this to the maximum number of serial ports you want
201 the kernel to register at boot time. This can be overridden
202 with the module parameter "nr_uarts", or boot-time parameter
205 config SERIAL_8250_EXTENDED
206 bool "Extended 8250/16550 serial driver options"
207 depends on SERIAL_8250
209 If you wish to use any non-standard features of the standard "dumb"
210 driver, say Y here. This includes HUB6 support, shared serial
211 interrupts, special multiport support, support for more than the
212 four COM 1/2/3/4 boards, etc.
214 Note that the answer to this question won't directly affect the
215 kernel: saying N will just cause the configurator to skip all
216 the questions about serial driver options. If unsure, say N.
218 config SERIAL_8250_MANY_PORTS
219 bool "Support more than 4 legacy serial ports"
220 depends on SERIAL_8250_EXTENDED && !IA64
222 Say Y here if you have dumb serial boards other than the four
223 standard COM 1/2/3/4 ports. This may happen if you have an AST
224 FourPort, Accent Async, Boca (read the Boca mini-HOWTO, available
225 from <https://www.tldp.org/docs.html#howto>), or other custom
226 serial port hardware which acts similar to standard serial port
227 hardware. If you only use the standard COM 1/2/3/4 ports, you can
228 say N here to save some memory. You can also say Y if you have an
229 "intelligent" multiport card such as Cyclades, Digiboards, etc.
232 # Multi-port serial cards
235 config SERIAL_8250_FOURPORT
236 tristate "Support Fourport cards"
237 depends on SERIAL_8250 != n && ISA && SERIAL_8250_MANY_PORTS
239 Say Y here if you have an AST FourPort serial board.
241 To compile this driver as a module, choose M here: the module
242 will be called 8250_fourport.
244 config SERIAL_8250_ACCENT
245 tristate "Support Accent cards"
246 depends on SERIAL_8250 != n && ISA && SERIAL_8250_MANY_PORTS
248 Say Y here if you have an Accent Async serial board.
250 To compile this driver as a module, choose M here: the module
251 will be called 8250_accent.
253 config SERIAL_8250_ASPEED_VUART
254 tristate "Aspeed Virtual UART"
255 depends on SERIAL_8250
257 depends on REGMAP && MFD_SYSCON
259 If you want to use the virtual UART (VUART) device on Aspeed
260 BMC platforms, enable this option. This enables the 16550A-
261 compatible device on the local LPC bus, giving a UART device
262 with no physical RS232 connections.
264 config SERIAL_8250_BOCA
265 tristate "Support Boca cards"
266 depends on SERIAL_8250 != n && ISA && SERIAL_8250_MANY_PORTS
268 Say Y here if you have a Boca serial board. Please read the Boca
269 mini-HOWTO, available from <https://www.tldp.org/docs.html#howto>
271 To compile this driver as a module, choose M here: the module
272 will be called 8250_boca.
274 config SERIAL_8250_EXAR_ST16C554
275 tristate "Support Exar ST16C554/554D Quad UART"
276 depends on SERIAL_8250 != n && ISA && SERIAL_8250_MANY_PORTS
278 The Uplogix Envoy TU301 uses this Exar Quad UART. If you are
279 tinkering with your Envoy TU301, or have a machine with this UART,
282 To compile this driver as a module, choose M here: the module
283 will be called 8250_exar_st16c554.
285 config SERIAL_8250_HUB6
286 tristate "Support Hub6 cards"
287 depends on SERIAL_8250 != n && ISA && SERIAL_8250_MANY_PORTS
289 Say Y here if you have a HUB6 serial board.
291 To compile this driver as a module, choose M here: the module
292 will be called 8250_hub6.
295 # Misc. options/drivers.
298 config SERIAL_8250_SHARE_IRQ
299 bool "Support for sharing serial interrupts"
300 depends on SERIAL_8250_EXTENDED
302 Some serial boards have hardware support which allows multiple dumb
303 serial ports on the same board to share a single IRQ. To enable
304 support for this in the serial driver, say Y here.
306 config SERIAL_8250_DETECT_IRQ
307 bool "Autodetect IRQ on standard ports (unsafe)"
308 depends on SERIAL_8250_EXTENDED
310 Say Y here if you want the kernel to try to guess which IRQ
311 to use for your serial port.
313 This is considered unsafe; it is far better to configure the IRQ in
314 a boot script using the setserial command.
318 config SERIAL_8250_RSA
319 bool "Support RSA serial ports"
320 depends on SERIAL_8250_EXTENDED
322 Say Y here if you have a IODATA RSA-DV II/S ISA card and
323 would like to use its >115kbps speeds.
324 You will need to provide module parameter "probe_rsa", or boot-time
325 parameter 8250.probe_rsa with I/O addresses of this card then.
327 If you don't have such card, or if unsure, say N.
329 config SERIAL_8250_DWLIB
332 config SERIAL_8250_ACORN
333 tristate "Acorn expansion card serial port support"
334 depends on ARCH_ACORN && SERIAL_8250
336 If you have an Atomwide Serial card or Serial Port card for an Acorn
337 system, say Y to this option. The driver can handle 1, 2, or 3 port
338 cards. If unsure, say N.
340 config SERIAL_8250_BCM2835AUX
341 tristate "BCM2835 auxiliar mini UART support"
342 depends on ARCH_BCM2835 || COMPILE_TEST
343 depends on SERIAL_8250 && SERIAL_8250_SHARE_IRQ
345 Support for the BCM2835 auxiliar mini UART.
347 Features and limitations of the UART are
348 Registers are similar to 16650 registers,
349 set bits in the control registers that are unsupported
350 are ignored and read back as 0
351 7/8 bit operation with 1 start and 1 stop bit
352 8 symbols deep fifo for rx and tx
353 SW controlled RTS and SW readable CTS
354 Clock rate derived from system clock
355 Uses 8 times oversampling (compared to 16 times for 16650)
356 Missing break detection (but break generation)
357 Missing framing error detection
359 Missing receive time-out interrupt
360 Missing DCD, DSR, DTR and RI signals
364 config SERIAL_8250_FSL
366 depends on SERIAL_8250_CONSOLE
367 default PPC || ARM || ARM64
369 config SERIAL_8250_DW
370 tristate "Support for Synopsys DesignWare 8250 quirks"
371 depends on SERIAL_8250
372 select SERIAL_8250_DWLIB
374 Selecting this option will enable handling of the extra features
375 present in the Synopsys DesignWare APB UART.
377 config SERIAL_8250_EM
378 tristate "Support for Emma Mobile integrated serial port"
379 depends on SERIAL_8250 && ARM && HAVE_CLK
381 Selecting this option will add support for the integrated serial
382 port hardware found on the Emma Mobile line of processors.
385 config SERIAL_8250_IOC3
386 tristate "SGI IOC3 8250 UART support"
387 depends on SGI_MFD_IOC3 && SERIAL_8250
388 select SERIAL_8250_EXTENDED
389 select SERIAL_8250_SHARE_IRQ
391 Enable this if you have a SGI Origin or Octane machine. This module
392 provides basic serial support by directly driving the UART chip
393 behind the IOC3 device on those systems. Maximum baud speed is
394 38400bps using this driver.
396 config SERIAL_8250_RT288X
397 bool "Ralink RT288x/RT305x/RT3662/RT3883 serial port support"
398 depends on SERIAL_8250
399 default y if MIPS_ALCHEMY || SOC_RT288X || SOC_RT305X || SOC_RT3883 || SOC_MT7620
401 Selecting this option will add support for the alternate register
402 layout used by Ralink RT288x/RT305x, Alchemy Au1xxx, and some others.
405 config SERIAL_8250_OMAP
406 tristate "Support for OMAP internal UART (8250 based driver)"
407 depends on SERIAL_8250 && (ARCH_OMAP2PLUS || ARCH_K3)
409 If you have a machine based on an Texas Instruments OMAP CPU you
410 can enable its onboard serial ports by enabling this option.
412 This driver uses ttyS instead of ttyO.
414 config SERIAL_8250_OMAP_TTYO_FIXUP
415 bool "Replace ttyO with ttyS"
416 depends on SERIAL_8250_OMAP=y && SERIAL_8250_CONSOLE
419 This option replaces the "console=ttyO" argument with the matching
420 ttyS argument if the user did not specified it on the command line.
421 This ensures that the user can see the kernel output during boot
422 which he wouldn't see otherwise. The getty has still to be configured
423 for ttyS instead of ttyO regardless of this option.
424 This option is intended for people who "automatically" enable this
425 driver without knowing that this driver requires a different console=
426 argument. If you read this, please keep this option disabled and
427 instead update your kernel command line. If you prepare a kernel for a
428 distribution or other kind of larger user base then you probably want
429 to keep this option enabled. Otherwise people might complain about a
430 not booting kernel because the serial console remains silent in case
431 they forgot to update the command line.
433 config SERIAL_8250_LPC18XX
434 tristate "NXP LPC18xx/43xx serial port support"
435 depends on SERIAL_8250 && OF && (ARCH_LPC18XX || COMPILE_TEST)
438 If you have a LPC18xx/43xx based board and want to use the
439 serial port, say Y to this option. If unsure, say Y.
441 config SERIAL_8250_MT6577
442 tristate "Mediatek serial port support"
443 depends on SERIAL_8250 && ARCH_MEDIATEK
445 If you have a Mediatek based board and want to use the
446 serial port, say Y to this option. If unsure, say N.
448 config SERIAL_8250_UNIPHIER
449 tristate "Support for UniPhier on-chip UART"
450 depends on SERIAL_8250
451 depends on ARCH_UNIPHIER || COMPILE_TEST
453 If you have a UniPhier based board and want to use the on-chip
454 serial ports, say Y to this option. If unsure, say N.
456 config SERIAL_8250_INGENIC
457 tristate "Support for Ingenic SoC serial ports"
458 depends on SERIAL_8250
459 depends on OF_FLATTREE
460 depends on MIPS || COMPILE_TEST
462 If you have a system using an Ingenic SoC and wish to make use of
463 its UARTs, say Y to this option. If unsure, say N.
465 config SERIAL_8250_LPSS
466 tristate "Support for serial ports on Intel LPSS platforms"
468 depends on SERIAL_8250 && PCI
469 depends on X86 || COMPILE_TEST
470 select SERIAL_8250_DWLIB
471 select DW_DMAC_CORE if SERIAL_8250_DMA
472 select DW_DMAC_PCI if (SERIAL_8250_DMA && X86_INTEL_LPSS)
475 Selecting this option will enable handling of the extra features
476 present on the UART found on various Intel platforms such as:
479 - Intel Quark X1000 SoC
481 config SERIAL_8250_MID
482 tristate "Support for serial ports on Intel MID platforms"
484 depends on SERIAL_8250 && PCI
485 depends on X86 || COMPILE_TEST
486 select HSU_DMA if SERIAL_8250_DMA
487 select HSU_DMA_PCI if (HSU_DMA && X86_INTEL_MID)
490 Selecting this option will enable handling of the extra features
491 present on the UART found on Intel Medfield SOC and various other
494 config SERIAL_8250_PXA
495 tristate "PXA serial port support"
496 depends on SERIAL_8250
497 depends on ARCH_PXA || ARCH_MMP
499 If you have a machine based on an Intel XScale PXA2xx CPU you can
500 enable its onboard serial ports by enabling this option. The option is
501 applicable to both devicetree and legacy boards, and early console is
504 config SERIAL_8250_TEGRA
505 tristate "8250 support for Tegra serial ports"
507 depends on SERIAL_8250
508 depends on ARCH_TEGRA || COMPILE_TEST
510 Select this option if you have machine with an NVIDIA Tegra SoC and
511 wish to enable 8250 serial driver for the Tegra serial interfaces.
513 config SERIAL_OF_PLATFORM
514 tristate "Devicetree based probing for 8250 ports"
515 depends on SERIAL_8250 && OF
517 This option is used for all 8250 compatible serial ports that
518 are probed through devicetree, including Open Firmware based
519 PowerPC systems and embedded systems on architectures using the
520 flattened device tree format.