···25252626menu "General machine setup"27272828-config VT2929- bool3030- select INPUT3131- default y3232- ---help---3333- If you say Y here, you will get support for terminal devices with3434- display and keyboard devices. These are called "virtual" because you3535- can run several virtual terminals (also called virtual consoles) on3636- one physical terminal. This is rather useful, for example one3737- virtual terminal can collect system messages and warnings, another3838- one can be used for a text-mode user session, and a third could run3939- an X session, all in parallel. Switching between virtual terminals4040- is done with certain key combinations, usually Alt-<function key>.4141-4242- The setterm command ("man setterm") can be used to change the4343- properties (such as colors or beeping) of a virtual terminal. The4444- man page console_codes(4) ("man console_codes") contains the special4545- character sequences that can be used to change those properties4646- directly. The fonts used on virtual terminals can be changed with4747- the setfont ("man setfont") command and the key bindings are defined4848- with the loadkeys ("man loadkeys") command.4949-5050- You need at least one virtual terminal device in order to make use5151- of your keyboard and monitor. Therefore, only people configuring an5252- embedded system would want to say N here in order to save some5353- memory; the only way to log into such a system is then via a serial5454- or network connection.5555-5656- If unsure, say Y, or else you won't be able to do much with your new5757- shiny Linux system :-)5858-5959-config VT_CONSOLE6060- bool6161- default y6262- ---help---6363- The system console is the device which receives all kernel messages6464- and warnings and which allows logins in single user mode. If you6565- answer Y here, a virtual terminal (the device used to interact with6666- a physical terminal) can be used as system console. This is the most6767- common mode of operations, so you should say Y here unless you want6868- the kernel messages be output only to a serial port (in which case6969- you should say Y to "Console on serial port", below).7070-7171- If you do say Y here, by default the currently visible virtual7272- terminal (/dev/tty0) will be used as system console. You can change7373- that with a kernel command line option such as "console=tty3" which7474- would use the third virtual terminal as system console. (Try "man7575- bootparam" or see the documentation of your boot loader (lilo or7676- loadlin) about how to pass options to the kernel at boot time.)7777-7878- If unsure, say Y.7979-8080-config HW_CONSOLE8181- bool8282- default y8383-8428config SMP8529 bool "Symmetric multi-processing support (does not work on sun4/sun4c)"8630 depends on BROKEN