1 # SPDX-License-Identifier: GPL-2.0
3 bool "Enable TTY" if EXPERT
6 Allows you to remove TTY support which can save space, and
7 blocks features that require TTY from inclusion in the kernel.
8 TTY is required for any text terminals or serial port
9 communication. Most users should leave this enabled.
14 bool "Virtual terminal" if EXPERT
19 If you say Y here, you will get support for terminal devices with
20 display and keyboard devices. These are called "virtual" because you
21 can run several virtual terminals (also called virtual consoles) on
22 one physical terminal. This is rather useful, for example one
23 virtual terminal can collect system messages and warnings, another
24 one can be used for a text-mode user session, and a third could run
25 an X session, all in parallel. Switching between virtual terminals
26 is done with certain key combinations, usually Alt-<function key>.
28 The setterm command ("man setterm") can be used to change the
29 properties (such as colors or beeping) of a virtual terminal. The
30 man page console_codes(4) ("man console_codes") contains the special
31 character sequences that can be used to change those properties
32 directly. The fonts used on virtual terminals can be changed with
33 the setfont ("man setfont") command and the key bindings are defined
34 with the loadkeys ("man loadkeys") command.
36 You need at least one virtual terminal device in order to make use
37 of your keyboard and monitor. Therefore, only people configuring an
38 embedded system would want to say N here in order to save some
39 memory; the only way to log into such a system is then via a serial
40 or network connection.
42 If unsure, say Y, or else you won't be able to do much with your new
43 shiny Linux system :-)
45 config CONSOLE_TRANSLATIONS
48 bool "Enable character translations in console" if EXPERT
50 This enables support for font mapping and Unicode translation
54 bool "Support for console on virtual terminal" if EXPERT
58 The system console is the device which receives all kernel messages
59 and warnings and which allows logins in single user mode. If you
60 answer Y here, a virtual terminal (the device used to interact with
61 a physical terminal) can be used as system console. This is the most
62 common mode of operations, so you should say Y here unless you want
63 the kernel messages be output only to a serial port (in which case
64 you should say Y to "Console on serial port", below).
66 If you do say Y here, by default the currently visible virtual
67 terminal (/dev/tty0) will be used as system console. You can change
68 that with a kernel command line option such as "console=tty3" which
69 would use the third virtual terminal as system console. (Try "man
70 bootparam" or see the documentation of your boot loader (lilo or
71 loadlin) about how to pass options to the kernel at boot time.)
75 config VT_CONSOLE_SLEEP
77 depends on VT_CONSOLE && PM_SLEEP
84 config VT_HW_CONSOLE_BINDING
85 bool "Support for binding and unbinding console drivers"
88 The virtual terminal is the device that interacts with the physical
89 terminal through console drivers. On these systems, at least one
90 console driver is loaded. In other configurations, additional console
91 drivers may be enabled, such as the framebuffer console. If more than
92 1 console driver is enabled, setting this to 'y' will allow you to
93 select the console driver that will serve as the backend for the
96 See <file:Documentation/driver-api/console.rst> for more
97 information. For framebuffer console users, please refer to
98 <file:Documentation/fb/fbcon.rst>.
101 bool "Unix98 PTY support" if EXPERT
104 A pseudo terminal (PTY) is a software device consisting of two
105 halves: a master and a slave. The slave device behaves identical to
106 a physical terminal; the master device is used by a process to
107 read data from and write data to the slave, thereby emulating a
108 terminal. Typical programs for the master side are telnet servers
111 Linux has traditionally used the BSD-like names /dev/ptyxx for
112 masters and /dev/ttyxx for slaves of pseudo terminals. This scheme
113 has a number of problems. The GNU C library glibc 2.1 and later,
114 however, supports the Unix98 naming standard: in order to acquire a
115 pseudo terminal, a process opens /dev/ptmx; the number of the pseudo
116 terminal is then made available to the process and the pseudo
117 terminal slave can be accessed as /dev/pts/<number>. What was
118 traditionally /dev/ttyp2 will then be /dev/pts/2, for example.
120 All modern Linux systems use the Unix98 ptys. Say Y unless
121 you're on an embedded system and want to conserve memory.
124 bool "Legacy (BSD) PTY support"
127 A pseudo terminal (PTY) is a software device consisting of two
128 halves: a master and a slave. The slave device behaves identical to
129 a physical terminal; the master device is used by a process to
130 read data from and write data to the slave, thereby emulating a
131 terminal. Typical programs for the master side are telnet servers
134 Linux has traditionally used the BSD-like names /dev/ptyxx
135 for masters and /dev/ttyxx for slaves of pseudo
136 terminals. This scheme has a number of problems, including
137 security. This option enables these legacy devices; on most
138 systems, it is safe to say N.
140 config LEGACY_PTY_COUNT
141 int "Maximum number of legacy PTY in use"
142 depends on LEGACY_PTYS
146 The maximum number of legacy PTYs that can be used at any one time.
147 The default is 256, and should be more than enough. Embedded
148 systems may want to reduce this to save memory.
150 When not in use, each legacy PTY occupies 12 bytes on 32-bit
151 architectures and 24 bytes on 64-bit architectures.
153 config LDISC_AUTOLOAD
154 bool "Automatically load TTY Line Disciplines"
157 Historically the kernel has always automatically loaded any
158 line discipline that is in a kernel module when a user asks
159 for it to be loaded with the TIOCSETD ioctl, or through other
160 means. This is not always the best thing to do on systems
161 where you know you will not be using some of the more
162 "ancient" line disciplines, so prevent the kernel from doing
163 this unless the request is coming from a process with the
164 CAP_SYS_MODULE permissions.
166 Say 'Y' here if you trust your userspace users to do the right
167 thing, or if you have only provided the line disciplines that
168 you know you will be using, or if you wish to continue to use
169 the traditional method of on-demand loading of these modules
172 This functionality can be changed at runtime with the
173 dev.tty.ldisc_autoload sysctl, this configuration option will
174 only set the default value of this functionality.
176 source "drivers/tty/serial/Kconfig"
178 config SERIAL_NONSTANDARD
179 bool "Non-standard serial port support"
182 Say Y here if you have any non-standard serial boards -- boards
183 which aren't supported using the standard "dumb" serial driver.
184 This includes intelligent serial boards such as
185 Digiboards, etc. These are usually used for systems that need many
186 serial ports because they serve many terminals or dial-in
189 Note that the answer to this question won't directly affect the
190 kernel: saying N will just cause the configurator to skip all
191 the questions about non-standard serial boards.
193 Most people can say N here.
196 tristate "Moxa Intellio support"
197 depends on SERIAL_NONSTANDARD && (ISA || EISA || PCI)
200 Say Y here if you have a Moxa Intellio multiport serial card.
202 To compile this driver as a module, choose M here: the
203 module will be called moxa.
206 tristate "Moxa SmartIO support v. 2.0"
207 depends on SERIAL_NONSTANDARD && (PCI || EISA || ISA)
209 Say Y here if you have a Moxa SmartIO multiport serial card and/or
210 want to help develop a new version of this driver.
212 This is upgraded (1.9.1) driver from original Moxa drivers with
213 changes finally resulting in PCI probing.
215 This driver can also be built as a module. The module will be called
216 mxser. If you want to do that, say M here.
219 tristate "SyncLink GT/AC support"
220 depends on SERIAL_NONSTANDARD && PCI
222 Support for SyncLink GT and SyncLink AC families of
223 synchronous and asynchronous serial adapters
224 manufactured by Microgate Systems, Ltd. (www.microgate.com)
227 tristate "HDLC line discipline support"
228 depends on SERIAL_NONSTANDARD
230 Allows synchronous HDLC communications with tty device drivers that
231 support synchronous HDLC such as the Microgate SyncLink adapter.
233 This driver can be built as a module ( = code which can be
234 inserted in and removed from the running kernel whenever you want).
235 The module will be called n_hdlc. If you want to do that, say M
238 config PPC_EPAPR_HV_BYTECHAN
239 bool "ePAPR hypervisor byte channel driver"
241 select EPAPR_PARAVIRT
243 This driver creates /dev entries for each ePAPR hypervisor byte
244 channel, thereby allowing applications to communicate with byte
245 channels as if they were serial ports.
247 config PPC_EARLY_DEBUG_EHV_BC
248 bool "Early console (udbg) support for ePAPR hypervisors"
249 depends on PPC_EPAPR_HV_BYTECHAN=y
251 Select this option to enable early console (a.k.a. "udbg") support
252 via an ePAPR byte channel. You also need to choose the byte channel
255 config PPC_EARLY_DEBUG_EHV_BC_HANDLE
256 int "Byte channel handle for early console (udbg)"
257 depends on PPC_EARLY_DEBUG_EHV_BC
260 If you want early console (udbg) output through a byte channel,
261 specify the handle of the byte channel to use.
263 For this to work, the byte channel driver must be compiled
264 in-kernel, not as a module.
266 Note that only one early console driver can be enabled, so don't
267 enable any others if you enable this one.
269 If the number you specify is not a valid byte channel handle, then
270 there simply will be no early console output. This is true also
271 if you don't boot under a hypervisor at all.
274 tristate "Goldfish TTY Driver"
277 select SERIAL_CORE_CONSOLE
279 Console and system TTY driver for the Goldfish virtual platform.
281 config GOLDFISH_TTY_EARLY_CONSOLE
283 default y if GOLDFISH_TTY=y
284 select SERIAL_EARLYCON
287 tristate "GSM MUX line discipline support (EXPERIMENTAL)"
290 This line discipline provides support for the GSM MUX protocol and
291 presents the mux as a set of 61 individual tty devices.
294 tristate "HSDPA Broadband Wireless Data Card - Globe Trotter"
297 If you have a HSDPA driver Broadband Wireless Data Card -
298 Globe Trotter PCMCIA card, say Y here.
300 To compile this driver as a module, choose M here, the module
301 will be called nozomi.
303 config MIPS_EJTAG_FDC_TTY
304 bool "MIPS EJTAG Fast Debug Channel TTY"
307 This enables a TTY and console on the MIPS EJTAG Fast Debug Channels,
308 if they are present. This can be useful when working with an EJTAG
309 probe which supports it, to get console output and a login prompt via
310 EJTAG without needing to connect a serial cable.
312 TTY devices are named e.g. ttyFDC3c2 (for FDC channel 2 of the FDC on
315 The console can be enabled with console=fdc1 (for FDC channel 1 on all
316 CPUs). Do not use the console unless there is a debug probe attached
317 to drain the FDC TX FIFO.
321 config MIPS_EJTAG_FDC_EARLYCON
322 bool "Early FDC console"
323 depends on MIPS_EJTAG_FDC_TTY
325 This registers a console on FDC channel 1 very early during boot (from
326 MIPS arch code). This is useful for bring-up and debugging early boot
329 Do not enable unless there is a debug probe attached to drain the FDC
334 config MIPS_EJTAG_FDC_KGDB
335 bool "Use KGDB over an FDC channel"
336 depends on MIPS_EJTAG_FDC_TTY && KGDB
339 This enables the use of KGDB over an FDC channel, allowing KGDB to be
340 used remotely or when a serial port isn't available.
342 config MIPS_EJTAG_FDC_KGDB_CHAN
343 int "KGDB FDC channel"
344 depends on MIPS_EJTAG_FDC_KGDB
348 FDC channel number to use for KGDB.
351 tristate "NULL TTY driver"
353 Say Y here if you want a NULL TTY which simply discards messages.
355 This is useful to allow userspace applications which expect a console
356 device to work without modifications even when no console is
357 available or desired.
359 In order to use this driver, you should redirect the console to this
360 TTY, or boot the kernel with console=ttynull.
365 tristate "Sun Virtual Console Concentrator"
368 Support for Sun logical domain consoles.
370 source "drivers/tty/hvc/Kconfig"
374 source "drivers/tty/serdev/Kconfig"