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| author | Hauke Mehrtens <hauke@hauke-m.de> | 2016-12-17 15:00:59 +0100 |
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| committer | Hauke Mehrtens <hauke@hauke-m.de> | 2016-12-24 14:55:35 +0100 |
| commit | 6e7fdf07b7134fddff0e0c9e24bd39d1ed4b4954 (patch) | |
| tree | b88bb3a7c91aebf7171b7dcfad8733867b386adf | |
| parent | 236bf83bb66ef39b60741945eecce9777b4c631a (diff) | |
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kernel: add KERNEL_DEVMEM and KERNEL_DEVKMEM
These options are needed to create /dev/mem or /dev/kmem .
/dev/mem is needed by the io tool to access raw hardware memory, which
is helpful when debugging and developing drivers.
Signed-off-by: Hauke Mehrtens <hauke@hauke-m.de>
Acked-by: John Crispin <john@phrozen.org>
| -rw-r--r-- | config/Config-kernel.in | 14 |
1 files changed, 14 insertions, 0 deletions
diff --git a/config/Config-kernel.in b/config/Config-kernel.in index 3c69c86..3f30013 100644 --- a/config/Config-kernel.in +++ b/config/Config-kernel.in @@ -745,3 +745,17 @@ menu "Filesystem ACL and attr support options" default y if USE_FS_ACL_ATTR endmenu + +config KERNEL_DEVMEM + bool "/dev/mem virtual device support" + 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. + +config KERNEL_DEVKMEM + bool "/dev/kmem virtual device support" + 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. |