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1 | # |
2 | # Block device driver configuration | |
3 | # | |
4 | ||
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5 | if BLOCK |
6 | ||
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7 | menu "Block devices" |
8 | ||
9 | config BLK_DEV_FD | |
10 | tristate "Normal floppy disk support" | |
a08b6b79 | 11 | depends on ARCH_MAY_HAVE_PC_FDC |
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12 | ---help--- |
13 | If you want to use the floppy disk drive(s) of your PC under Linux, | |
14 | say Y. Information about this driver, especially important for IBM | |
15 | Thinkpad users, is contained in <file:Documentation/floppy.txt>. | |
16 | That file also contains the location of the Floppy driver FAQ as | |
17 | well as location of the fdutils package used to configure additional | |
18 | parameters of the driver at run time. | |
19 | ||
20 | To compile this driver as a module, choose M here: the | |
21 | module will be called floppy. | |
22 | ||
23 | config AMIGA_FLOPPY | |
24 | tristate "Amiga floppy support" | |
25 | depends on AMIGA | |
26 | ||
27 | config ATARI_FLOPPY | |
28 | tristate "Atari floppy support" | |
29 | depends on ATARI | |
30 | ||
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31 | config MAC_FLOPPY |
32 | tristate "Support for PowerMac floppy" | |
33 | depends on PPC_PMAC && !PPC_PMAC64 | |
34 | help | |
35 | If you have a SWIM-3 (Super Woz Integrated Machine 3; from Apple) | |
36 | floppy controller, say Y here. Most commonly found in PowerMacs. | |
37 | ||
38 | config BLK_DEV_PS2 | |
39 | tristate "PS/2 ESDI hard disk support" | |
40 | depends on MCA && MCA_LEGACY && BROKEN | |
41 | help | |
42 | Say Y here if you have a PS/2 machine with a MCA bus and an ESDI | |
43 | hard disk. | |
44 | ||
45 | To compile this driver as a module, choose M here: the | |
46 | module will be called ps2esdi. | |
47 | ||
48 | config AMIGA_Z2RAM | |
49 | tristate "Amiga Zorro II ramdisk support" | |
50 | depends on ZORRO | |
51 | help | |
52 | This enables support for using Chip RAM and Zorro II RAM as a | |
53 | ramdisk or as a swap partition. Say Y if you want to include this | |
54 | driver in the kernel. | |
55 | ||
56 | To compile this driver as a module, choose M here: the | |
57 | module will be called z2ram. | |
58 | ||
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59 | config ATARI_SLM |
60 | tristate "Atari SLM laser printer support" | |
c2bcf3b8 | 61 | depends on ATARI |
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62 | help |
63 | If you have an Atari SLM laser printer, say Y to include support for | |
64 | it in the kernel. Otherwise, say N. This driver is also available as | |
65 | a module ( = code which can be inserted in and removed from the | |
66 | running kernel whenever you want). The module will be called | |
67 | acsi_slm. Be warned: the driver needs much ST-RAM and can cause | |
68 | problems due to that fact! | |
69 | ||
70 | config BLK_DEV_XD | |
71 | tristate "XT hard disk support" | |
a5532606 | 72 | depends on ISA && ISA_DMA_API |
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73 | help |
74 | Very old 8 bit hard disk controllers used in the IBM XT computer | |
75 | will be supported if you say Y here. | |
76 | ||
77 | To compile this driver as a module, choose M here: the | |
78 | module will be called xd. | |
79 | ||
80 | It's pretty unlikely that you have one of these: say N. | |
81 | ||
82 | config PARIDE | |
83 | tristate "Parallel port IDE device support" | |
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85 | ---help--- |
86 | There are many external CD-ROM and disk devices that connect through | |
87 | your computer's parallel port. Most of them are actually IDE devices | |
88 | using a parallel port IDE adapter. This option enables the PARIDE | |
89 | subsystem which contains drivers for many of these external drives. | |
90 | Read <file:Documentation/paride.txt> for more information. | |
91 | ||
92 | If you have said Y to the "Parallel-port support" configuration | |
93 | option, you may share a single port between your printer and other | |
94 | parallel port devices. Answer Y to build PARIDE support into your | |
95 | kernel, or M if you would like to build it as a loadable module. If | |
96 | your parallel port support is in a loadable module, you must build | |
97 | PARIDE as a module. If you built PARIDE support into your kernel, | |
98 | you may still build the individual protocol modules and high-level | |
99 | drivers as loadable modules. If you build this support as a module, | |
100 | it will be called paride. | |
101 | ||
102 | To use the PARIDE support, you must say Y or M here and also to at | |
103 | least one high-level driver (e.g. "Parallel port IDE disks", | |
104 | "Parallel port ATAPI CD-ROMs", "Parallel port ATAPI disks" etc.) and | |
105 | to at least one protocol driver (e.g. "ATEN EH-100 protocol", | |
106 | "MicroSolutions backpack protocol", "DataStor Commuter protocol" | |
107 | etc.). | |
108 | ||
109 | source "drivers/block/paride/Kconfig" | |
110 | ||
111 | config BLK_CPQ_DA | |
112 | tristate "Compaq SMART2 support" | |
113 | depends on PCI | |
114 | help | |
115 | This is the driver for Compaq Smart Array controllers. Everyone | |
116 | using these boards should say Y here. See the file | |
117 | <file:Documentation/cpqarray.txt> for the current list of boards | |
118 | supported by this driver, and for further information on the use of | |
119 | this driver. | |
120 | ||
121 | config BLK_CPQ_CISS_DA | |
122 | tristate "Compaq Smart Array 5xxx support" | |
123 | depends on PCI | |
124 | help | |
125 | This is the driver for Compaq Smart Array 5xxx controllers. | |
126 | Everyone using these boards should say Y here. | |
127 | See <file:Documentation/cciss.txt> for the current list of | |
128 | boards supported by this driver, and for further information | |
129 | on the use of this driver. | |
130 | ||
131 | config CISS_SCSI_TAPE | |
132 | bool "SCSI tape drive support for Smart Array 5xxx" | |
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133 | depends on BLK_CPQ_CISS_DA && PROC_FS |
134 | depends on SCSI=y || SCSI=BLK_CPQ_CISS_DA | |
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135 | help |
136 | When enabled (Y), this option allows SCSI tape drives and SCSI medium | |
137 | changers (tape robots) to be accessed via a Compaq 5xxx array | |
138 | controller. (See <file:Documentation/cciss.txt> for more details.) | |
139 | ||
140 | "SCSI support" and "SCSI tape support" must also be enabled for this | |
141 | option to work. | |
142 | ||
143 | When this option is disabled (N), the SCSI portion of the driver | |
144 | is not compiled. | |
145 | ||
146 | config BLK_DEV_DAC960 | |
147 | tristate "Mylex DAC960/DAC1100 PCI RAID Controller support" | |
148 | depends on PCI | |
149 | help | |
150 | This driver adds support for the Mylex DAC960, AcceleRAID, and | |
151 | eXtremeRAID PCI RAID controllers. See the file | |
152 | <file:Documentation/README.DAC960> for further information about | |
153 | this driver. | |
154 | ||
155 | To compile this driver as a module, choose M here: the | |
156 | module will be called DAC960. | |
157 | ||
158 | config BLK_DEV_UMEM | |
159 | tristate "Micro Memory MM5415 Battery Backed RAM support (EXPERIMENTAL)" | |
160 | depends on PCI && EXPERIMENTAL | |
161 | ---help--- | |
162 | Saying Y here will include support for the MM5415 family of | |
163 | battery backed (Non-volatile) RAM cards. | |
164 | <http://www.umem.com/> | |
165 | ||
166 | The cards appear as block devices that can be partitioned into | |
167 | as many as 15 partitions. | |
168 | ||
169 | To compile this driver as a module, choose M here: the | |
170 | module will be called umem. | |
171 | ||
172 | The umem driver has not yet been allocated a MAJOR number, so | |
bf6ee0ae | 173 | one is chosen dynamically. |
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174 | |
175 | config BLK_DEV_UBD | |
176 | bool "Virtual block device" | |
177 | depends on UML | |
178 | ---help--- | |
179 | The User-Mode Linux port includes a driver called UBD which will let | |
180 | you access arbitrary files on the host computer as block devices. | |
181 | Unless you know that you do not need such virtual block devices say | |
182 | Y here. | |
183 | ||
184 | config BLK_DEV_UBD_SYNC | |
185 | bool "Always do synchronous disk IO for UBD" | |
186 | depends on BLK_DEV_UBD | |
187 | ---help--- | |
188 | Writes to the virtual block device are not immediately written to the | |
189 | host's disk; this may cause problems if, for example, the User-Mode | |
190 | Linux 'Virtual Machine' uses a journalling filesystem and the host | |
191 | computer crashes. | |
192 | ||
193 | Synchronous operation (i.e. always writing data to the host's disk | |
194 | immediately) is configurable on a per-UBD basis by using a special | |
195 | kernel command line option. Alternatively, you can say Y here to | |
196 | turn on synchronous operation by default for all block devices. | |
197 | ||
198 | If you're running a journalling file system (like reiserfs, for | |
199 | example) in your virtual machine, you will want to say Y here. If | |
200 | you care for the safety of the data in your virtual machine, Y is a | |
201 | wise choice too. In all other cases (for example, if you're just | |
202 | playing around with User-Mode Linux) you can choose N. | |
203 | ||
204 | config BLK_DEV_COW_COMMON | |
205 | bool | |
206 | default BLK_DEV_UBD | |
207 | ||
208 | config MMAPPER | |
209 | tristate "Example IO memory driver (BROKEN)" | |
210 | depends on UML && BROKEN | |
211 | ---help--- | |
212 | The User-Mode Linux port can provide support for IO Memory | |
213 | emulation with this option. This allows a host file to be | |
214 | specified as an I/O region on the kernel command line. That file | |
215 | will be mapped into UML's kernel address space where a driver can | |
216 | locate it and do whatever it wants with the memory, including | |
217 | providing an interface to it for UML processes to use. | |
218 | ||
219 | For more information, see | |
220 | <http://user-mode-linux.sourceforge.net/iomem.html>. | |
221 | ||
222 | If you'd like to be able to provide a simulated IO port space for | |
223 | User-Mode Linux processes, say Y. If unsure, say N. | |
224 | ||
225 | config BLK_DEV_LOOP | |
226 | tristate "Loopback device support" | |
227 | ---help--- | |
228 | Saying Y here will allow you to use a regular file as a block | |
229 | device; you can then create a file system on that block device and | |
230 | mount it just as you would mount other block devices such as hard | |
231 | drive partitions, CD-ROM drives or floppy drives. The loop devices | |
232 | are block special device files with major number 7 and typically | |
233 | called /dev/loop0, /dev/loop1 etc. | |
234 | ||
235 | This is useful if you want to check an ISO 9660 file system before | |
236 | burning the CD, or if you want to use floppy images without first | |
237 | writing them to floppy. Furthermore, some Linux distributions avoid | |
238 | the need for a dedicated Linux partition by keeping their complete | |
239 | root file system inside a DOS FAT file using this loop device | |
240 | driver. | |
241 | ||
242 | To use the loop device, you need the losetup utility, found in the | |
243 | util-linux package, see | |
244 | <ftp://ftp.kernel.org/pub/linux/utils/util-linux/>. | |
245 | ||
246 | The loop device driver can also be used to "hide" a file system in | |
247 | a disk partition, floppy, or regular file, either using encryption | |
248 | (scrambling the data) or steganography (hiding the data in the low | |
249 | bits of, say, a sound file). This is also safe if the file resides | |
250 | on a remote file server. | |
251 | ||
252 | There are several ways of encrypting disks. Some of these require | |
253 | kernel patches. The vanilla kernel offers the cryptoloop option | |
254 | and a Device Mapper target (which is superior, as it supports all | |
255 | file systems). If you want to use the cryptoloop, say Y to both | |
256 | LOOP and CRYPTOLOOP, and make sure you have a recent (version 2.12 | |
257 | or later) version of util-linux. Additionally, be aware that | |
258 | the cryptoloop is not safe for storing journaled filesystems. | |
259 | ||
260 | Note that this loop device has nothing to do with the loopback | |
261 | device used for network connections from the machine to itself. | |
262 | ||
263 | To compile this driver as a module, choose M here: the | |
264 | module will be called loop. | |
265 | ||
266 | Most users will answer N here. | |
267 | ||
268 | config BLK_DEV_CRYPTOLOOP | |
269 | tristate "Cryptoloop Support" | |
270 | select CRYPTO | |
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272 | depends on BLK_DEV_LOOP |
273 | ---help--- | |
274 | Say Y here if you want to be able to use the ciphers that are | |
275 | provided by the CryptoAPI as loop transformation. This might be | |
276 | used as hard disk encryption. | |
277 | ||
278 | WARNING: This device is not safe for journaled file systems like | |
279 | ext3 or Reiserfs. Please use the Device Mapper crypto module | |
280 | instead, which can be configured to be on-disk compatible with the | |
281 | cryptoloop device. | |
282 | ||
283 | config BLK_DEV_NBD | |
284 | tristate "Network block device support" | |
285 | depends on NET | |
286 | ---help--- | |
287 | Saying Y here will allow your computer to be a client for network | |
288 | block devices, i.e. it will be able to use block devices exported by | |
289 | servers (mount file systems on them etc.). Communication between | |
290 | client and server works over TCP/IP networking, but to the client | |
291 | program this is hidden: it looks like a regular local file access to | |
292 | a block device special file such as /dev/nd0. | |
293 | ||
294 | Network block devices also allows you to run a block-device in | |
295 | userland (making server and client physically the same computer, | |
296 | communicating using the loopback network device). | |
297 | ||
298 | Read <file:Documentation/nbd.txt> for more information, especially | |
299 | about where to find the server code, which runs in user space and | |
300 | does not need special kernel support. | |
301 | ||
302 | Note that this has nothing to do with the network file systems NFS | |
303 | or Coda; you can say N here even if you intend to use NFS or Coda. | |
304 | ||
305 | To compile this driver as a module, choose M here: the | |
306 | module will be called nbd. | |
307 | ||
308 | If unsure, say N. | |
309 | ||
310 | config BLK_DEV_SX8 | |
311 | tristate "Promise SATA SX8 support" | |
312 | depends on PCI | |
313 | ---help--- | |
314 | Saying Y or M here will enable support for the | |
315 | Promise SATA SX8 controllers. | |
316 | ||
317 | Use devices /dev/sx8/$N and /dev/sx8/$Np$M. | |
318 | ||
319 | config BLK_DEV_UB | |
320 | tristate "Low Performance USB Block driver" | |
321 | depends on USB | |
322 | help | |
323 | This driver supports certain USB attached storage devices | |
324 | such as flash keys. | |
325 | ||
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326 | If you enable this driver, it is recommended to avoid conflicts |
327 | with usb-storage by enabling USB_LIBUSUAL. | |
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328 | |
329 | If unsure, say N. | |
330 | ||
331 | config BLK_DEV_RAM | |
332 | tristate "RAM disk support" | |
333 | ---help--- | |
334 | Saying Y here will allow you to use a portion of your RAM memory as | |
335 | a block device, so that you can make file systems on it, read and | |
336 | write to it and do all the other things that you can do with normal | |
337 | block devices (such as hard drives). It is usually used to load and | |
338 | store a copy of a minimal root file system off of a floppy into RAM | |
339 | during the initial install of Linux. | |
340 | ||
341 | Note that the kernel command line option "ramdisk=XX" is now | |
342 | obsolete. For details, read <file:Documentation/ramdisk.txt>. | |
343 | ||
344 | To compile this driver as a module, choose M here: the | |
345 | module will be called rd. | |
346 | ||
347 | Most normal users won't need the RAM disk functionality, and can | |
348 | thus say N here. | |
349 | ||
350 | config BLK_DEV_RAM_COUNT | |
a687fb18 | 351 | int "Default number of RAM disks" |
1da177e4 | 352 | default "16" |
a687fb18 | 353 | depends on BLK_DEV_RAM |
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354 | help |
355 | The default value is 16 RAM disks. Change this if you know what | |
356 | are doing. If you boot from a filesystem that needs to be extracted | |
357 | in memory, you will need at least one RAM disk (e.g. root on cramfs). | |
358 | ||
359 | config BLK_DEV_RAM_SIZE | |
360 | int "Default RAM disk size (kbytes)" | |
361 | depends on BLK_DEV_RAM | |
362 | default "4096" | |
363 | help | |
364 | The default value is 4096 kilobytes. Only change this if you know | |
365 | what are you doing. If you are using IBM S/390, then set this to | |
366 | 8192. | |
367 | ||
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368 | config BLK_DEV_RAM_BLOCKSIZE |
369 | int "Default RAM disk block size (bytes)" | |
370 | depends on BLK_DEV_RAM | |
371 | default "1024" | |
372 | help | |
73cf9630 | 373 | The default value is 1024 bytes. PAGE_SIZE is a much more |
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374 | efficient choice however. The default is kept to ensure initrd |
375 | setups function - apparently needed by the rd_load_image routine | |
376 | that supposes the filesystem in the image uses a 1024 blocksize. | |
377 | ||
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378 | config CDROM_PKTCDVD |
379 | tristate "Packet writing on CD/DVD media" | |
380 | depends on !UML | |
381 | help | |
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382 | If you have a CDROM/DVD drive that supports packet writing, say |
383 | Y to include support. It should work with any MMC/Mt Fuji | |
384 | compliant ATAPI or SCSI drive, which is just about any newer | |
385 | DVD/CD writer. | |
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387 | Currently only writing to CD-RW, DVD-RW, DVD+RW and DVDRAM discs |
388 | is possible. | |
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389 | DVD-RW disks must be in restricted overwrite mode. |
390 | ||
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391 | See the file <file:Documentation/cdrom/packet-writing.txt> |
392 | for further information on the use of this driver. | |
393 | ||
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394 | To compile this driver as a module, choose M here: the |
395 | module will be called pktcdvd. | |
396 | ||
397 | config CDROM_PKTCDVD_BUFFERS | |
398 | int "Free buffers for data gathering" | |
399 | depends on CDROM_PKTCDVD | |
400 | default "8" | |
401 | help | |
402 | This controls the maximum number of active concurrent packets. More | |
403 | concurrent packets can increase write performance, but also require | |
404 | more memory. Each concurrent packet will require approximately 64Kb | |
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405 | of non-swappable kernel memory, memory which will be allocated when |
406 | a disc is opened for writing. | |
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407 | |
408 | config CDROM_PKTCDVD_WCACHE | |
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409 | bool "Enable write caching (EXPERIMENTAL)" |
410 | depends on CDROM_PKTCDVD && EXPERIMENTAL | |
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411 | help |
412 | If enabled, write caching will be set for the CD-R/W device. For now | |
413 | this option is dangerous unless the CD-RW media is known good, as we | |
414 | don't do deferred write error handling yet. | |
415 | ||
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416 | config ATA_OVER_ETH |
417 | tristate "ATA over Ethernet support" | |
418 | depends on NET | |
419 | help | |
420 | This driver provides Support for ATA over Ethernet block | |
421 | devices like the Coraid EtherDrive (R) Storage Blade. | |
422 | ||
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423 | source "drivers/s390/block/Kconfig" |
424 | ||
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426 | |
427 | endif |