| # |
| # Character device configuration |
| # |
| |
| menu "Character devices" |
| |
| source "drivers/tty/Kconfig" |
| |
| config DEVMEM |
| bool "/dev/mem virtual device support" |
| default y |
| help |
| Say Y here if you want to support the /dev/mem device. |
| The /dev/mem device is used to access areas of physical |
| memory. |
| When in doubt, say "Y". |
| |
| config DEVKMEM |
| bool "/dev/kmem virtual device support" |
| default y |
| help |
| Say Y here if you want to support the /dev/kmem device. The |
| /dev/kmem device is rarely used, but can be used for certain |
| kind of kernel debugging operations. |
| When in doubt, say "N". |
| |
| config SGI_SNSC |
| bool "SGI Altix system controller communication support" |
| depends on (IA64_SGI_SN2 || IA64_GENERIC) |
| help |
| If you have an SGI Altix and you want to enable system |
| controller communication from user space (you want this!), |
| say Y. Otherwise, say N. |
| |
| config SGI_TIOCX |
| bool "SGI TIO CX driver support" |
| depends on (IA64_SGI_SN2 || IA64_GENERIC) |
| help |
| If you have an SGI Altix and you have fpga devices attached |
| to your TIO, say Y here, otherwise say N. |
| |
| config SGI_MBCS |
| tristate "SGI FPGA Core Services driver support" |
| depends on SGI_TIOCX |
| help |
| If you have an SGI Altix with an attached SABrick |
| say Y or M here, otherwise say N. |
| |
| source "drivers/tty/serial/Kconfig" |
| |
| config TTY_PRINTK |
| tristate "TTY driver to output user messages via printk" |
| depends on EXPERT && TTY |
| default n |
| ---help--- |
| If you say Y here, the support for writing user messages (i.e. |
| console messages) via printk is available. |
| |
| The feature is useful to inline user messages with kernel |
| messages. |
| In order to use this feature, you should output user messages |
| to /dev/ttyprintk or redirect console to this TTY. |
| |
| If unsure, say N. |
| |
| config BFIN_OTP |
| tristate "Blackfin On-Chip OTP Memory Support" |
| depends on BLACKFIN && (BF51x || BF52x || BF54x) |
| default y |
| help |
| If you say Y here, you will get support for a character device |
| interface into the One Time Programmable memory pages that are |
| stored on the Blackfin processor. This will not get you access |
| to the secure memory pages however. You will need to write your |
| own secure code and reader for that. |
| |
| To compile this driver as a module, choose M here: the module |
| will be called bfin-otp. |
| |
| If unsure, it is safe to say Y. |
| |
| config BFIN_OTP_WRITE_ENABLE |
| bool "Enable writing support of OTP pages" |
| depends on BFIN_OTP |
| default n |
| help |
| If you say Y here, you will enable support for writing of the |
| OTP pages. This is dangerous by nature as you can only program |
| the pages once, so only enable this option when you actually |
| need it so as to not inadvertently clobber data. |
| |
| If unsure, say N. |
| |
| config FSL_OTP |
| tristate "Freescale On-Chip OTP Memory Support" |
| depends on HAS_IOMEM && OF |
| help |
| If you say Y here, you will get support for a character device |
| interface into the One Time Programmable memory pages that are |
| stored on the some Freescale i.MX processors. This will not get |
| you access to the secure memory pages however. You will need to |
| write your own secure code and reader for that. |
| |
| To compile this driver as a module, choose M here: the module |
| will be called fsl_otp. |
| |
| If unsure, it is safe to say Y. |
| |
| config PRINTER |
| tristate "Parallel printer support" |
| depends on PARPORT |
| ---help--- |
| If you intend to attach a printer to the parallel port of your Linux |
| box (as opposed to using a serial printer; if the connector at the |
| printer has 9 or 25 holes ["female"], then it's serial), say Y. |
| Also read the Printing-HOWTO, available from |
| <http://www.tldp.org/docs.html#howto>. |
| |
| It is possible to share one parallel port among several devices |
| (e.g. printer and ZIP drive) and it is safe to compile the |
| corresponding drivers into the kernel. |
| |
| To compile this driver as a module, choose M here and read |
| <file:Documentation/parport.txt>. The module will be called lp. |
| |
| If you have several parallel ports, you can specify which ports to |
| use with the "lp" kernel command line option. (Try "man bootparam" |
| or see the documentation of your boot loader (lilo or loadlin) about |
| how to pass options to the kernel at boot time.) The syntax of the |
| "lp" command line option can be found in <file:drivers/char/lp.c>. |
| |
| If you have more than 8 printers, you need to increase the LP_NO |
| macro in lp.c and the PARPORT_MAX macro in parport.h. |
| |
| config LP_CONSOLE |
| bool "Support for console on line printer" |
| depends on PRINTER |
| ---help--- |
| If you want kernel messages to be printed out as they occur, you |
| can have a console on the printer. This option adds support for |
| doing that; to actually get it to happen you need to pass the |
| option "console=lp0" to the kernel at boot time. |
| |
| If the printer is out of paper (or off, or unplugged, or too |
| busy..) the kernel will stall until the printer is ready again. |
| By defining CONSOLE_LP_STRICT to 0 (at your own risk) you |
| can make the kernel continue when this happens, |
| but it'll lose the kernel messages. |
| |
| If unsure, say N. |
| |
| config PPDEV |
| tristate "Support for user-space parallel port device drivers" |
| depends on PARPORT |
| ---help--- |
| Saying Y to this adds support for /dev/parport device nodes. This |
| is needed for programs that want portable access to the parallel |
| port, for instance deviceid (which displays Plug-and-Play device |
| IDs). |
| |
| This is the parallel port equivalent of SCSI generic support (sg). |
| It is safe to say N to this -- it is not needed for normal printing |
| or parallel port CD-ROM/disk support. |
| |
| To compile this driver as a module, choose M here: the |
| module will be called ppdev. |
| |
| If unsure, say N. |
| |
| source "drivers/tty/hvc/Kconfig" |
| |
| config VIRTIO_CONSOLE |
| tristate "Virtio console" |
| depends on VIRTIO && TTY |
| select HVC_DRIVER |
| help |
| Virtio console for use with lguest and other hypervisors. |
| |
| Also serves as a general-purpose serial device for data |
| transfer between the guest and host. Character devices at |
| /dev/vportNpn will be created when corresponding ports are |
| found, where N is the device number and n is the port number |
| within that device. If specified by the host, a sysfs |
| attribute called 'name' will be populated with a name for |
| the port which can be used by udev scripts to create a |
| symlink to the device. |
| |
| config IBM_BSR |
| tristate "IBM POWER Barrier Synchronization Register support" |
| depends on PPC_PSERIES |
| help |
| This devices exposes a hardware mechanism for fast synchronization |
| of threads across a large system which avoids bouncing a cacheline |
| between several cores on a system |
| |
| source "drivers/char/ipmi/Kconfig" |
| |
| config DS1620 |
| tristate "NetWinder thermometer support" |
| depends on ARCH_NETWINDER |
| help |
| Say Y here to include support for the thermal management hardware |
| found in the NetWinder. This driver allows the user to control the |
| temperature set points and to read the current temperature. |
| |
| It is also possible to say M here to build it as a module (ds1620) |
| It is recommended to be used on a NetWinder, but it is not a |
| necessity. |
| |
| config NWBUTTON |
| tristate "NetWinder Button" |
| depends on ARCH_NETWINDER |
| ---help--- |
| If you say Y here and create a character device node /dev/nwbutton |
| with major and minor numbers 10 and 158 ("man mknod"), then every |
| time the orange button is pressed a number of times, the number of |
| times the button was pressed will be written to that device. |
| |
| This is most useful for applications, as yet unwritten, which |
| perform actions based on how many times the button is pressed in a |
| row. |
| |
| Do not hold the button down for too long, as the driver does not |
| alter the behaviour of the hardware reset circuitry attached to the |
| button; it will still execute a hard reset if the button is held |
| down for longer than approximately five seconds. |
| |
| To compile this driver as a module, choose M here: the |
| module will be called nwbutton. |
| |
| Most people will answer Y to this question and "Reboot Using Button" |
| below to be able to initiate a system shutdown from the button. |
| |
| config NWBUTTON_REBOOT |
| bool "Reboot Using Button" |
| depends on NWBUTTON |
| help |
| If you say Y here, then you will be able to initiate a system |
| shutdown and reboot by pressing the orange button a number of times. |
| The number of presses to initiate the shutdown is two by default, |
| but this can be altered by modifying the value of NUM_PRESSES_REBOOT |
| in nwbutton.h and recompiling the driver or, if you compile the |
| driver as a module, you can specify the number of presses at load |
| time with "insmod button reboot_count=<something>". |
| |
| config NWFLASH |
| tristate "NetWinder flash support" |
| depends on ARCH_NETWINDER |
| ---help--- |
| If you say Y here and create a character device /dev/flash with |
| major 10 and minor 160 you can manipulate the flash ROM containing |
| the NetWinder firmware. Be careful as accidentally overwriting the |
| flash contents can render your computer unbootable. On no account |
| allow random users access to this device. :-) |
| |
| To compile this driver as a module, choose M here: the |
| module will be called nwflash. |
| |
| If you're not sure, say N. |
| |
| source "drivers/char/hw_random/Kconfig" |
| |
| config NVRAM |
| tristate "/dev/nvram support" |
| depends on ATARI || X86 || (ARM && RTC_DRV_CMOS) || GENERIC_NVRAM |
| ---help--- |
| If you say Y here and create a character special file /dev/nvram |
| with major number 10 and minor number 144 using mknod ("man mknod"), |
| you get read and write access to the extra bytes of non-volatile |
| memory in the real time clock (RTC), which is contained in every PC |
| and most Ataris. The actual number of bytes varies, depending on the |
| nvram in the system, but is usually 114 (128-14 for the RTC). |
| |
| This memory is conventionally called "CMOS RAM" on PCs and "NVRAM" |
| on Ataris. /dev/nvram may be used to view settings there, or to |
| change them (with some utility). It could also be used to frequently |
| save a few bits of very important data that may not be lost over |
| power-off and for which writing to disk is too insecure. Note |
| however that most NVRAM space in a PC belongs to the BIOS and you |
| should NEVER idly tamper with it. See Ralf Brown's interrupt list |
| for a guide to the use of CMOS bytes by your BIOS. |
| |
| On Atari machines, /dev/nvram is always configured and does not need |
| to be selected. |
| |
| To compile this driver as a module, choose M here: the |
| module will be called nvram. |
| |
| # |
| # These legacy RTC drivers just cause too many conflicts with the generic |
| # RTC framework ... let's not even try to coexist any more. |
| # |
| if RTC_LIB=n |
| |
| config RTC |
| tristate "Enhanced Real Time Clock Support (legacy PC RTC driver)" |
| depends on !PPC && !PARISC && !IA64 && !M68K && !SPARC && !FRV \ |
| && !ARM && !SUPERH && !S390 && !AVR32 && !BLACKFIN && !UML |
| ---help--- |
| If you say Y here and create a character special file /dev/rtc with |
| major number 10 and minor number 135 using mknod ("man mknod"), you |
| will get access to the real time clock (or hardware clock) built |
| into your computer. |
| |
| Every PC has such a clock built in. It can be used to generate |
| signals from as low as 1Hz up to 8192Hz, and can also be used |
| as a 24 hour alarm. It reports status information via the file |
| /proc/driver/rtc and its behaviour is set by various ioctls on |
| /dev/rtc. |
| |
| If you run Linux on a multiprocessor machine and said Y to |
| "Symmetric Multi Processing" above, you should say Y here to read |
| and set the RTC in an SMP compatible fashion. |
| |
| If you think you have a use for such a device (such as periodic data |
| sampling), then say Y here, and read <file:Documentation/rtc.txt> |
| for details. |
| |
| To compile this driver as a module, choose M here: the |
| module will be called rtc. |
| |
| config JS_RTC |
| tristate "Enhanced Real Time Clock Support" |
| depends on SPARC32 && PCI |
| ---help--- |
| If you say Y here and create a character special file /dev/rtc with |
| major number 10 and minor number 135 using mknod ("man mknod"), you |
| will get access to the real time clock (or hardware clock) built |
| into your computer. |
| |
| Every PC has such a clock built in. It can be used to generate |
| signals from as low as 1Hz up to 8192Hz, and can also be used |
| as a 24 hour alarm. It reports status information via the file |
| /proc/driver/rtc and its behaviour is set by various ioctls on |
| /dev/rtc. |
| |
| If you think you have a use for such a device (such as periodic data |
| sampling), then say Y here, and read <file:Documentation/rtc.txt> |
| for details. |
| |
| To compile this driver as a module, choose M here: the |
| module will be called js-rtc. |
| |
| config GEN_RTC |
| tristate "Generic /dev/rtc emulation" |
| depends on RTC!=y && !IA64 && !ARM && !M32R && !MIPS && !SPARC && !FRV && !S390 && !SUPERH && !AVR32 && !BLACKFIN && !UML |
| ---help--- |
| If you say Y here and create a character special file /dev/rtc with |
| major number 10 and minor number 135 using mknod ("man mknod"), you |
| will get access to the real time clock (or hardware clock) built |
| into your computer. |
| |
| It reports status information via the file /proc/driver/rtc and its |
| behaviour is set by various ioctls on /dev/rtc. If you enable the |
| "extended RTC operation" below it will also provide an emulation |
| for RTC_UIE which is required by some programs and may improve |
| precision in some cases. |
| |
| To compile this driver as a module, choose M here: the |
| module will be called genrtc. |
| |
| config GEN_RTC_X |
| bool "Extended RTC operation" |
| depends on GEN_RTC |
| help |
| Provides an emulation for RTC_UIE which is required by some programs |
| and may improve precision of the generic RTC support in some cases. |
| |
| config EFI_RTC |
| bool "EFI Real Time Clock Services" |
| depends on IA64 |
| |
| config DS1302 |
| tristate "DS1302 RTC support" |
| depends on M32R && (PLAT_M32700UT || PLAT_OPSPUT) |
| help |
| If you say Y here and create a character special file /dev/rtc with |
| major number 121 and minor number 0 using mknod ("man mknod"), you |
| will get access to the real time clock (or hardware clock) built |
| into your computer. |
| |
| endif # RTC_LIB |
| |
| config DTLK |
| tristate "Double Talk PC internal speech card support" |
| depends on ISA |
| help |
| This driver is for the DoubleTalk PC, a speech synthesizer |
| manufactured by RC Systems (<http://www.rcsys.com/>). It is also |
| called the `internal DoubleTalk'. |
| |
| To compile this driver as a module, choose M here: the |
| module will be called dtlk. |
| |
| config XILINX_HWICAP |
| tristate "Xilinx HWICAP Support" |
| depends on XILINX_VIRTEX || MICROBLAZE |
| help |
| This option enables support for Xilinx Internal Configuration |
| Access Port (ICAP) driver. The ICAP is used on Xilinx Virtex |
| FPGA platforms to partially reconfigure the FPGA at runtime. |
| |
| If unsure, say N. |
| |
| config R3964 |
| tristate "Siemens R3964 line discipline" |
| depends on TTY |
| ---help--- |
| This driver allows synchronous communication with devices using the |
| Siemens R3964 packet protocol. Unless you are dealing with special |
| hardware like PLCs, you are unlikely to need this. |
| |
| To compile this driver as a module, choose M here: the |
| module will be called n_r3964. |
| |
| If unsure, say N. |
| |
| config APPLICOM |
| tristate "Applicom intelligent fieldbus card support" |
| depends on PCI |
| ---help--- |
| This driver provides the kernel-side support for the intelligent |
| fieldbus cards made by Applicom International. More information |
| about these cards can be found on the WWW at the address |
| <http://www.applicom-int.com/>, or by email from David Woodhouse |
| <dwmw2@infradead.org>. |
| |
| To compile this driver as a module, choose M here: the |
| module will be called applicom. |
| |
| If unsure, say N. |
| |
| config SONYPI |
| tristate "Sony Vaio Programmable I/O Control Device support" |
| depends on X86_32 && PCI && INPUT |
| ---help--- |
| This driver enables access to the Sony Programmable I/O Control |
| Device which can be found in many (all ?) Sony Vaio laptops. |
| |
| If you have one of those laptops, read |
| <file:Documentation/laptops/sonypi.txt>, and say Y or M here. |
| |
| To compile this driver as a module, choose M here: the |
| module will be called sonypi. |
| |
| config GPIO_TB0219 |
| tristate "TANBAC TB0219 GPIO support" |
| depends on TANBAC_TB022X |
| select GPIO_VR41XX |
| |
| source "drivers/char/pcmcia/Kconfig" |
| |
| config MWAVE |
| tristate "ACP Modem (Mwave) support" |
| depends on X86 && TTY |
| select SERIAL_8250 |
| ---help--- |
| The ACP modem (Mwave) for Linux is a WinModem. It is composed of a |
| kernel driver and a user level application. Together these components |
| support direct attachment to public switched telephone networks (PSTNs) |
| and support selected world wide countries. |
| |
| This version of the ACP Modem driver supports the IBM Thinkpad 600E, |
| 600, and 770 that include on board ACP modem hardware. |
| |
| The modem also supports the standard communications port interface |
| (ttySx) and is compatible with the Hayes AT Command Set. |
| |
| The user level application needed to use this driver can be found at |
| the IBM Linux Technology Center (LTC) web site: |
| <http://www.ibm.com/linux/ltc/>. |
| |
| If you own one of the above IBM Thinkpads which has the Mwave chipset |
| in it, say Y. |
| |
| To compile this driver as a module, choose M here: the |
| module will be called mwave. |
| |
| config SCx200_GPIO |
| tristate "NatSemi SCx200 GPIO Support" |
| depends on SCx200 |
| select NSC_GPIO |
| help |
| Give userspace access to the GPIO pins on the National |
| Semiconductor SCx200 processors. |
| |
| If compiled as a module, it will be called scx200_gpio. |
| |
| config PC8736x_GPIO |
| tristate "NatSemi PC8736x GPIO Support" |
| depends on X86_32 && !UML |
| default SCx200_GPIO # mostly N |
| select NSC_GPIO # needed for support routines |
| help |
| Give userspace access to the GPIO pins on the National |
| Semiconductor PC-8736x (x=[03456]) SuperIO chip. The chip |
| has multiple functional units, inc several managed by |
| hwmon/pc87360 driver. Tested with PC-87366 |
| |
| If compiled as a module, it will be called pc8736x_gpio. |
| |
| config NSC_GPIO |
| tristate "NatSemi Base GPIO Support" |
| depends on X86_32 |
| # selected by SCx200_GPIO and PC8736x_GPIO |
| # what about 2 selectors differing: m != y |
| help |
| Common support used (and needed) by scx200_gpio and |
| pc8736x_gpio drivers. If those drivers are built as |
| modules, this one will be too, named nsc_gpio |
| |
| config RAW_DRIVER |
| tristate "RAW driver (/dev/raw/rawN)" |
| depends on BLOCK |
| help |
| The raw driver permits block devices to be bound to /dev/raw/rawN. |
| Once bound, I/O against /dev/raw/rawN uses efficient zero-copy I/O. |
| See the raw(8) manpage for more details. |
| |
| Applications should preferably open the device (eg /dev/hda1) |
| with the O_DIRECT flag. |
| |
| config MAX_RAW_DEVS |
| int "Maximum number of RAW devices to support (1-65536)" |
| depends on RAW_DRIVER |
| range 1 65536 |
| default "256" |
| help |
| The maximum number of RAW devices that are supported. |
| Default is 256. Increase this number in case you need lots of |
| raw devices. |
| |
| config HPET |
| bool "HPET - High Precision Event Timer" if (X86 || IA64) |
| default n |
| depends on ACPI |
| help |
| If you say Y here, you will have a miscdevice named "/dev/hpet/". Each |
| open selects one of the timers supported by the HPET. The timers are |
| non-periodic and/or periodic. |
| |
| config HPET_MMAP |
| bool "Allow mmap of HPET" |
| default y |
| depends on HPET |
| help |
| If you say Y here, user applications will be able to mmap |
| the HPET registers. |
| |
| config HPET_MMAP_DEFAULT |
| bool "Enable HPET MMAP access by default" |
| default y |
| depends on HPET_MMAP |
| help |
| In some hardware implementations, the page containing HPET |
| registers may also contain other things that shouldn't be |
| exposed to the user. This option selects the default (if |
| kernel parameter hpet_mmap is not set) user access to the |
| registers for applications that require it. |
| |
| config HANGCHECK_TIMER |
| tristate "Hangcheck timer" |
| depends on X86 || IA64 || PPC64 || S390 |
| help |
| The hangcheck-timer module detects when the system has gone |
| out to lunch past a certain margin. It can reboot the system |
| or merely print a warning. |
| |
| config MMTIMER |
| tristate "MMTIMER Memory mapped RTC for SGI Altix" |
| depends on IA64_GENERIC || IA64_SGI_SN2 |
| default y |
| help |
| The mmtimer device allows direct userspace access to the |
| Altix system timer. |
| |
| config UV_MMTIMER |
| tristate "UV_MMTIMER Memory mapped RTC for SGI UV" |
| depends on X86_UV |
| default m |
| help |
| The uv_mmtimer device allows direct userspace access to the |
| UV system timer. |
| |
| source "drivers/char/tpm/Kconfig" |
| |
| config TELCLOCK |
| tristate "Telecom clock driver for ATCA SBC" |
| depends on X86 |
| default n |
| help |
| The telecom clock device is specific to the MPCBL0010 and MPCBL0050 |
| ATCA computers and allows direct userspace access to the |
| configuration of the telecom clock configuration settings. This |
| device is used for hardware synchronization across the ATCA backplane |
| fabric. Upon loading, the driver exports a sysfs directory, |
| /sys/devices/platform/telco_clock, with a number of files for |
| controlling the behavior of this hardware. |
| |
| config DEVPORT |
| bool |
| depends on !M68K |
| depends on ISA || PCI |
| default y |
| |
| source "drivers/s390/char/Kconfig" |
| |
| config MSM_SMD_PKT |
| bool "Enable device interface for some SMD packet ports" |
| default n |
| depends on MSM_SMD |
| help |
| Enables userspace clients to read and write to some packet SMD |
| ports via device interface for MSM chipset. |
| |
| config TILE_SROM |
| bool "Character-device access via hypervisor to the Tilera SPI ROM" |
| depends on TILE |
| default y |
| ---help--- |
| This device provides character-level read-write access |
| to the SROM, typically via the "0", "1", and "2" devices |
| in /dev/srom/. The Tilera hypervisor makes the flash |
| device appear much like a simple EEPROM, and knows |
| how to partition a single ROM for multiple purposes. |
| |
| source "drivers/char/xillybus/Kconfig" |
| |
| source "drivers/char/imx_amp/Kconfig" |
| endmenu |
| |