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