diff --git a/apps/system/components/DebugConsole/kata-debug-console/Cargo.toml b/apps/system/components/DebugConsole/kata-debug-console/Cargo.toml
index 55fbe48..8e8a8d5 100644
--- a/apps/system/components/DebugConsole/kata-debug-console/Cargo.toml
+++ b/apps/system/components/DebugConsole/kata-debug-console/Cargo.toml
@@ -8,6 +8,7 @@ description = "Kata OS DebugConsole"
 [dependencies]
 panic-halt = "0.2.0"
 kata-allocator = { path = "../kata-allocator" }
+kata-io = { path = "../kata-io" }
 kata-logger = { path = "../kata-logger" }
 kata-panic = { path = "../kata-panic" }
 kata-shell = { path = "../kata-shell" }
diff --git a/apps/system/components/DebugConsole/kata-debug-console/src/run.rs b/apps/system/components/DebugConsole/kata-debug-console/src/run.rs
index 043c521..e892ad3 100644
--- a/apps/system/components/DebugConsole/kata-debug-console/src/run.rs
+++ b/apps/system/components/DebugConsole/kata-debug-console/src/run.rs
@@ -15,6 +15,7 @@
 extern crate kata_panic;
 
 use kata_allocator;
+use kata_io;
 use kata_logger::KataLogger;
 use kata_shell;
 use kata_uart_client;
@@ -45,6 +46,6 @@ pub extern "C" fn pre_init() {
 pub extern "C" fn run() -> ! {
     trace!("run");
     let mut tx = kata_uart_client::Tx::new();
-    let mut rx = kata_uart_client::Rx::new();
+    let mut rx = kata_io::BufReader::new(kata_uart_client::Rx::new());
     kata_shell::repl(&mut tx, &mut rx);
 }
diff --git a/apps/system/components/DebugConsole/kata-io/Cargo.toml b/apps/system/components/DebugConsole/kata-io/Cargo.toml
index eaccbe5..ca3c4f0 100644
--- a/apps/system/components/DebugConsole/kata-io/Cargo.toml
+++ b/apps/system/components/DebugConsole/kata-io/Cargo.toml
@@ -3,3 +3,6 @@ name = "kata-io"
 version = "0.1.0"
 authors = ["Matt Harvey <mattharvey@google.com>"]
 edition = "2018"
+
+[dependencies]
+memchr = { version = "2.4.1", default-features = false }
diff --git a/apps/system/components/DebugConsole/kata-io/src/lib.rs b/apps/system/components/DebugConsole/kata-io/src/lib.rs
index f09b1aa..b75d935 100644
--- a/apps/system/components/DebugConsole/kata-io/src/lib.rs
+++ b/apps/system/components/DebugConsole/kata-io/src/lib.rs
@@ -1,5 +1,9 @@
 #![no_std]
 
+extern crate alloc;
+
+use alloc::boxed::Box;
+use alloc::vec::Vec;
 use core::cmp;
 
 #[derive(Debug)]
@@ -30,6 +34,38 @@ pub trait Read {
     }
 }
 
+/// Partial mimic of std::io::BufRead.
+pub trait BufRead: Read {
+    fn fill_buf(&mut self) -> Result<&[u8]>;
+
+    fn consume(&mut self, amt: usize);
+
+    fn read_until(&mut self, delim: u8, buf: &mut Vec<u8>) -> Result<usize> {
+        // Implementation adapted from std::io.
+        let mut read = 0;
+        loop {
+            let (done, used) = {
+                let available = self.fill_buf()?;
+                match memchr::memchr(delim, available) {
+                    Some(i) => {
+                        buf.extend_from_slice(&available[..=i]);
+                        (true, i + 1)
+                    }
+                    None => {
+                        buf.extend_from_slice(available);
+                        (false, available.len())
+                    }
+                }
+            };
+            self.consume(used);
+            read += used;
+            if done || used == 0 {
+                return Ok(read);
+            }
+        }
+    }
+}
+
 /// Partial mimic of std::io::Write.
 pub trait Write {
     fn write(&mut self, buf: &[u8]) -> Result<usize>;
@@ -103,3 +139,70 @@ where
         (**self).flush()
     }
 }
+
+pub struct BufReader<R> {
+    inner: R,
+    buf: Box<[u8]>,
+    pos: usize,
+    cap: usize,
+}
+
+impl<R: Read> BufReader<R> {
+    pub fn new(inner: R) -> BufReader<R> {
+        const BUFFER_SIZE : usize = 1024;  // free to be changed
+        BufReader {
+            inner: inner,
+            buf: Box::new([0u8; BUFFER_SIZE]),
+            pos: 0,
+            cap: 0,
+        }
+    }
+
+    fn discard_buffer(&mut self) {
+        // Implementation copied from std::io.
+        self.pos = 0;
+        self.cap = 0;
+    }
+}
+
+impl<R: Read> Read for BufReader<R> {
+    fn read(&mut self, buf: &mut [u8]) -> Result<usize> {
+        // Implementation copied from std::io.
+
+        // If we don't have any buffered data and we're doing a massive read
+        // (larger than our internal buffer), bypass our internal buffer
+        // entirely.
+        if self.pos == self.cap && buf.len() >= self.buf.len() {
+            self.discard_buffer();
+            return self.inner.read(buf);
+        }
+        let nread = {
+            let mut rem = self.fill_buf()?;
+            rem.read(buf)?
+        };
+        self.consume(nread);
+        Ok(nread)
+    }
+}
+
+impl<R: Read> BufRead for BufReader<R> {
+    fn fill_buf(&mut self) -> Result<&[u8]> {
+        // Implementation copied from std::io.
+
+        // If we've reached the end of our internal buffer then we need to fetch
+        // some more data from the underlying reader.
+        // Branch using `>=` instead of the more correct `==`
+        // to tell the compiler that the pos..cap slice is always valid.
+        if self.pos >= self.cap {
+            debug_assert!(self.pos == self.cap);
+            self.cap = self.inner.read(&mut self.buf)?;
+            self.pos = 0;
+        }
+        Ok(&self.buf[self.pos..self.cap])
+    }
+
+    fn consume(&mut self, amt: usize) {
+        // Implementation copied from std::io.
+        self.pos = cmp::min(self.pos + amt, self.cap);
+    }
+}