| # | |
| # Block device driver configuration | |
| # | |
| menuconfig BLK_DEV | |
| bool "Block devices" | |
| depends on BLOCK | |
| default y | |
| ---help--- | |
| Say Y here to get to see options for various different block device | |
| drivers. This option alone does not add any kernel code. | |
| If you say N, all options in this submenu will be skipped and disabled; | |
| only do this if you know what you are doing. | |
| if BLK_DEV | |
| config BLK_DEV_FD | |
| tristate "Normal floppy disk support" | |
| depends on ARCH_MAY_HAVE_PC_FDC | |
| ---help--- | |
| If you want to use the floppy disk drive(s) of your PC under Linux, | |
| say Y. Information about this driver, especially important for IBM | |
| Thinkpad users, is contained in | |
| <file:Documentation/blockdev/floppy.txt>. | |
| That file also contains the location of the Floppy driver FAQ as | |
| well as location of the fdutils package used to configure additional | |
| parameters of the driver at run time. | |
| To compile this driver as a module, choose M here: the | |
| module will be called floppy. | |
| config AMIGA_FLOPPY | |
| tristate "Amiga floppy support" | |
| depends on AMIGA | |
| config ATARI_FLOPPY | |
| tristate "Atari floppy support" | |
| depends on ATARI | |
| config MAC_FLOPPY | |
| tristate "Support for PowerMac floppy" | |
| depends on PPC_PMAC && !PPC_PMAC64 | |
| help | |
| If you have a SWIM-3 (Super Woz Integrated Machine 3; from Apple) | |
| floppy controller, say Y here. Most commonly found in PowerMacs. | |
| config BLK_DEV_SWIM | |
| tristate "Support for SWIM Macintosh floppy" | |
| depends on M68K && MAC | |
| help | |
| You should select this option if you want floppy support | |
| and you don't have a II, IIfx, Q900, Q950 or AV series. | |
| config AMIGA_Z2RAM | |
| tristate "Amiga Zorro II ramdisk support" | |
| depends on ZORRO | |
| help | |
| This enables support for using Chip RAM and Zorro II RAM as a | |
| ramdisk or as a swap partition. Say Y if you want to include this | |
| driver in the kernel. | |
| To compile this driver as a module, choose M here: the | |
| module will be called z2ram. | |
| config BLK_DEV_XD | |
| tristate "XT hard disk support" | |
| depends on ISA && ISA_DMA_API | |
| select CHECK_SIGNATURE | |
| help | |
| Very old 8 bit hard disk controllers used in the IBM XT computer | |
| will be supported if you say Y here. | |
| To compile this driver as a module, choose M here: the | |
| module will be called xd. | |
| It's pretty unlikely that you have one of these: say N. | |
| config GDROM | |
| tristate "SEGA Dreamcast GD-ROM drive" | |
| depends on SH_DREAMCAST | |
| help | |
| A standard SEGA Dreamcast comes with a modified CD ROM drive called a | |
| "GD-ROM" by SEGA to signify it is capable of reading special disks | |
| with up to 1 GB of data. This drive will also read standard CD ROM | |
| disks. Select this option to access any disks in your GD ROM drive. | |
| Most users will want to say "Y" here. | |
| You can also build this as a module which will be called gdrom. | |
| config PARIDE | |
| tristate "Parallel port IDE device support" | |
| depends on PARPORT_PC | |
| ---help--- | |
| There are many external CD-ROM and disk devices that connect through | |
| your computer's parallel port. Most of them are actually IDE devices | |
| using a parallel port IDE adapter. This option enables the PARIDE | |
| subsystem which contains drivers for many of these external drives. | |
| Read <file:Documentation/blockdev/paride.txt> for more information. | |
| If you have said Y to the "Parallel-port support" configuration | |
| option, you may share a single port between your printer and other | |
| parallel port devices. Answer Y to build PARIDE support into your | |
| kernel, or M if you would like to build it as a loadable module. If | |
| your parallel port support is in a loadable module, you must build | |
| PARIDE as a module. If you built PARIDE support into your kernel, | |
| you may still build the individual protocol modules and high-level | |
| drivers as loadable modules. If you build this support as a module, | |
| it will be called paride. | |
| To use the PARIDE support, you must say Y or M here and also to at | |
| least one high-level driver (e.g. "Parallel port IDE disks", | |
| "Parallel port ATAPI CD-ROMs", "Parallel port ATAPI disks" etc.) and | |
| to at least one protocol driver (e.g. "ATEN EH-100 protocol", | |
| "MicroSolutions backpack protocol", "DataStor Commuter protocol" | |
| etc.). | |
| source "drivers/block/paride/Kconfig" | |
| config BLK_CPQ_DA | |
| tristate "Compaq SMART2 support" | |
| depends on PCI && VIRT_TO_BUS | |
| help | |
| This is the driver for Compaq Smart Array controllers. Everyone | |
| using these boards should say Y here. See the file | |
| <file:Documentation/blockdev/cpqarray.txt> for the current list of | |
| boards supported by this driver, and for further information on the | |
| use of this driver. | |
| config BLK_CPQ_CISS_DA | |
| tristate "Compaq Smart Array 5xxx support" | |
| depends on PCI | |
| help | |
| This is the driver for Compaq Smart Array 5xxx controllers. | |
| Everyone using these boards should say Y here. | |
| See <file:Documentation/blockdev/cciss.txt> for the current list of | |
| boards supported by this driver, and for further information | |
| on the use of this driver. | |
| config CISS_SCSI_TAPE | |
| bool "SCSI tape drive support for Smart Array 5xxx" | |
| depends on BLK_CPQ_CISS_DA && PROC_FS | |
| depends on SCSI=y || SCSI=BLK_CPQ_CISS_DA | |
| help | |
| When enabled (Y), this option allows SCSI tape drives and SCSI medium | |
| changers (tape robots) to be accessed via a Compaq 5xxx array | |
| controller. (See <file:Documentation/blockdev/cciss.txt> for more details.) | |
| "SCSI support" and "SCSI tape support" must also be enabled for this | |
| option to work. | |
| When this option is disabled (N), the SCSI portion of the driver | |
| is not compiled. | |
| config BLK_DEV_DAC960 | |
| tristate "Mylex DAC960/DAC1100 PCI RAID Controller support" | |
| depends on PCI | |
| help | |
| This driver adds support for the Mylex DAC960, AcceleRAID, and | |
| eXtremeRAID PCI RAID controllers. See the file | |
| <file:Documentation/blockdev/README.DAC960> for further information | |
| about this driver. | |
| To compile this driver as a module, choose M here: the | |
| module will be called DAC960. | |
| config BLK_DEV_UMEM | |
| tristate "Micro Memory MM5415 Battery Backed RAM support (EXPERIMENTAL)" | |
| depends on PCI && EXPERIMENTAL | |
| ---help--- | |
| Saying Y here will include support for the MM5415 family of | |
| battery backed (Non-volatile) RAM cards. | |
| <http://www.umem.com/> | |
| The cards appear as block devices that can be partitioned into | |
| as many as 15 partitions. | |
| To compile this driver as a module, choose M here: the | |
| module will be called umem. | |
| The umem driver has not yet been allocated a MAJOR number, so | |
| one is chosen dynamically. | |
| config BLK_DEV_UBD | |
| bool "Virtual block device" | |
| depends on UML | |
| ---help--- | |
| The User-Mode Linux port includes a driver called UBD which will let | |
| you access arbitrary files on the host computer as block devices. | |
| Unless you know that you do not need such virtual block devices say | |
| Y here. | |
| config BLK_DEV_UBD_SYNC | |
| bool "Always do synchronous disk IO for UBD" | |
| depends on BLK_DEV_UBD | |
| ---help--- | |
| Writes to the virtual block device are not immediately written to the | |
| host's disk; this may cause problems if, for example, the User-Mode | |
| Linux 'Virtual Machine' uses a journalling filesystem and the host | |
| computer crashes. | |
| Synchronous operation (i.e. always writing data to the host's disk | |
| immediately) is configurable on a per-UBD basis by using a special | |
| kernel command line option. Alternatively, you can say Y here to | |
| turn on synchronous operation by default for all block devices. | |
| If you're running a journalling file system (like reiserfs, for | |
| example) in your virtual machine, you will want to say Y here. If | |
| you care for the safety of the data in your virtual machine, Y is a | |
| wise choice too. In all other cases (for example, if you're just | |
| playing around with User-Mode Linux) you can choose N. | |
| config BLK_DEV_COW_COMMON | |
| bool | |
| default BLK_DEV_UBD | |
| config BLK_DEV_LOOP | |
| tristate "Loopback device support" | |
| ---help--- | |
| Saying Y here will allow you to use a regular file as a block | |
| device; you can then create a file system on that block device and | |
| mount it just as you would mount other block devices such as hard | |
| drive partitions, CD-ROM drives or floppy drives. The loop devices | |
| are block special device files with major number 7 and typically | |
| called /dev/loop0, /dev/loop1 etc. | |
| This is useful if you want to check an ISO 9660 file system before | |
| burning the CD, or if you want to use floppy images without first | |
| writing them to floppy. Furthermore, some Linux distributions avoid | |
| the need for a dedicated Linux partition by keeping their complete | |
| root file system inside a DOS FAT file using this loop device | |
| driver. | |
| To use the loop device, you need the losetup utility, found in the | |
| util-linux package, see | |
| <ftp://ftp.kernel.org/pub/linux/utils/util-linux/>. | |
| The loop device driver can also be used to "hide" a file system in | |
| a disk partition, floppy, or regular file, either using encryption | |
| (scrambling the data) or steganography (hiding the data in the low | |
| bits of, say, a sound file). This is also safe if the file resides | |
| on a remote file server. | |
| There are several ways of encrypting disks. Some of these require | |
| kernel patches. The vanilla kernel offers the cryptoloop option | |
| and a Device Mapper target (which is superior, as it supports all | |
| file systems). If you want to use the cryptoloop, say Y to both | |
| LOOP and CRYPTOLOOP, and make sure you have a recent (version 2.12 | |
| or later) version of util-linux. Additionally, be aware that | |
| the cryptoloop is not safe for storing journaled filesystems. | |
| Note that this loop device has nothing to do with the loopback | |
| device used for network connections from the machine to itself. | |
| To compile this driver as a module, choose M here: the | |
| module will be called loop. | |
| Most users will answer N here. | |
| config BLK_DEV_CRYPTOLOOP | |
| tristate "Cryptoloop Support" | |
| select CRYPTO | |
| select CRYPTO_CBC | |
| depends on BLK_DEV_LOOP | |
| ---help--- | |
| Say Y here if you want to be able to use the ciphers that are | |
| provided by the CryptoAPI as loop transformation. This might be | |
| used as hard disk encryption. | |
| WARNING: This device is not safe for journaled file systems like | |
| ext3 or Reiserfs. Please use the Device Mapper crypto module | |
| instead, which can be configured to be on-disk compatible with the | |
| cryptoloop device. | |
| source "drivers/block/drbd/Kconfig" | |
| config BLK_DEV_NBD | |
| tristate "Network block device support" | |
| depends on NET | |
| ---help--- | |
| Saying Y here will allow your computer to be a client for network | |
| block devices, i.e. it will be able to use block devices exported by | |
| servers (mount file systems on them etc.). Communication between | |
| client and server works over TCP/IP networking, but to the client | |
| program this is hidden: it looks like a regular local file access to | |
| a block device special file such as /dev/nd0. | |
| Network block devices also allows you to run a block-device in | |
| userland (making server and client physically the same computer, | |
| communicating using the loopback network device). | |
| Read <file:Documentation/blockdev/nbd.txt> for more information, | |
| especially about where to find the server code, which runs in user | |
| space and does not need special kernel support. | |
| Note that this has nothing to do with the network file systems NFS | |
| or Coda; you can say N here even if you intend to use NFS or Coda. | |
| To compile this driver as a module, choose M here: the | |
| module will be called nbd. | |
| If unsure, say N. | |
| config BLK_DEV_OSD | |
| tristate "OSD object-as-blkdev support" | |
| depends on SCSI_OSD_ULD | |
| ---help--- | |
| Saying Y or M here will allow the exporting of a single SCSI | |
| OSD (object-based storage) object as a Linux block device. | |
| For example, if you create a 2G object on an OSD device, | |
| you can then use this module to present that 2G object as | |
| a Linux block device. | |
| To compile this driver as a module, choose M here: the | |
| module will be called osdblk. | |
| If unsure, say N. | |
| config BLK_DEV_SX8 | |
| tristate "Promise SATA SX8 support" | |
| depends on PCI | |
| ---help--- | |
| Saying Y or M here will enable support for the | |
| Promise SATA SX8 controllers. | |
| Use devices /dev/sx8/$N and /dev/sx8/$Np$M. | |
| config BLK_DEV_UB | |
| tristate "Low Performance USB Block driver" | |
| depends on USB | |
| help | |
| This driver supports certain USB attached storage devices | |
| such as flash keys. | |
| If you enable this driver, it is recommended to avoid conflicts | |
| with usb-storage by enabling USB_LIBUSUAL. | |
| If unsure, say N. | |
| config BLK_DEV_RAM | |
| tristate "RAM block device support" | |
| ---help--- | |
| Saying Y here will allow you to use a portion of your RAM memory as | |
| a block device, so that you can make file systems on it, read and | |
| write to it and do all the other things that you can do with normal | |
| block devices (such as hard drives). It is usually used to load and | |
| store a copy of a minimal root file system off of a floppy into RAM | |
| during the initial install of Linux. | |
| Note that the kernel command line option "ramdisk=XX" is now obsolete. | |
| For details, read <file:Documentation/blockdev/ramdisk.txt>. | |
| To compile this driver as a module, choose M here: the | |
| module will be called rd. | |
| Most normal users won't need the RAM disk functionality, and can | |
| thus say N here. | |
| config BLK_DEV_RAM_COUNT | |
| int "Default number of RAM disks" | |
| default "16" | |
| depends on BLK_DEV_RAM | |
| help | |
| The default value is 16 RAM disks. Change this if you know what you | |
| are doing. If you boot from a filesystem that needs to be extracted | |
| in memory, you will need at least one RAM disk (e.g. root on cramfs). | |
| config BLK_DEV_RAM_SIZE | |
| int "Default RAM disk size (kbytes)" | |
| depends on BLK_DEV_RAM | |
| default "4096" | |
| help | |
| The default value is 4096 kilobytes. Only change this if you know | |
| what you are doing. | |
| config BLK_DEV_XIP | |
| bool "Support XIP filesystems on RAM block device" | |
| depends on BLK_DEV_RAM | |
| default n | |
| help | |
| Support XIP filesystems (such as ext2 with XIP support on) on | |
| top of block ram device. This will slightly enlarge the kernel, and | |
| will prevent RAM block device backing store memory from being | |
| allocated from highmem (only a problem for highmem systems). | |
| config CDROM_PKTCDVD | |
| tristate "Packet writing on CD/DVD media" | |
| depends on !UML | |
| help | |
| If you have a CDROM/DVD drive that supports packet writing, say | |
| Y to include support. It should work with any MMC/Mt Fuji | |
| compliant ATAPI or SCSI drive, which is just about any newer | |
| DVD/CD writer. | |
| Currently only writing to CD-RW, DVD-RW, DVD+RW and DVDRAM discs | |
| is possible. | |
| DVD-RW disks must be in restricted overwrite mode. | |
| See the file <file:Documentation/cdrom/packet-writing.txt> | |
| for further information on the use of this driver. | |
| To compile this driver as a module, choose M here: the | |
| module will be called pktcdvd. | |
| config CDROM_PKTCDVD_BUFFERS | |
| int "Free buffers for data gathering" | |
| depends on CDROM_PKTCDVD | |
| default "8" | |
| help | |
| This controls the maximum number of active concurrent packets. More | |
| concurrent packets can increase write performance, but also require | |
| more memory. Each concurrent packet will require approximately 64Kb | |
| of non-swappable kernel memory, memory which will be allocated when | |
| a disc is opened for writing. | |
| config CDROM_PKTCDVD_WCACHE | |
| bool "Enable write caching (EXPERIMENTAL)" | |
| depends on CDROM_PKTCDVD && EXPERIMENTAL | |
| help | |
| If enabled, write caching will be set for the CD-R/W device. For now | |
| this option is dangerous unless the CD-RW media is known good, as we | |
| don't do deferred write error handling yet. | |
| config ATA_OVER_ETH | |
| tristate "ATA over Ethernet support" | |
| depends on NET | |
| help | |
| This driver provides Support for ATA over Ethernet block | |
| devices like the Coraid EtherDrive (R) Storage Blade. | |
| config MG_DISK | |
| tristate "mGine mflash, gflash support" | |
| depends on ARM && GPIOLIB | |
| help | |
| mGine mFlash(gFlash) block device driver | |
| config MG_DISK_RES | |
| int "Size of reserved area before MBR" | |
| depends on MG_DISK | |
| default 0 | |
| help | |
| Define size of reserved area that usually used for boot. Unit is KB. | |
| All of the block device operation will be taken this value as start | |
| offset | |
| Examples: | |
| 1024 => 1 MB | |
| config SUNVDC | |
| tristate "Sun Virtual Disk Client support" | |
| depends on SUN_LDOMS | |
| help | |
| Support for virtual disk devices as a client under Sun | |
| Logical Domains. | |
| source "drivers/s390/block/Kconfig" | |
| config XILINX_SYSACE | |
| tristate "Xilinx SystemACE support" | |
| depends on 4xx || MICROBLAZE | |
| help | |
| Include support for the Xilinx SystemACE CompactFlash interface | |
| config XEN_BLKDEV_FRONTEND | |
| tristate "Xen virtual block device support" | |
| depends on XEN | |
| default y | |
| select XEN_XENBUS_FRONTEND | |
| help | |
| This driver implements the front-end of the Xen virtual | |
| block device driver. It communicates with a back-end driver | |
| in another domain which drives the actual block device. | |
| config VIRTIO_BLK | |
| tristate "Virtio block driver (EXPERIMENTAL)" | |
| depends on EXPERIMENTAL && VIRTIO | |
| ---help--- | |
| This is the virtual block driver for virtio. It can be used with | |
| lguest or QEMU based VMMs (like KVM or Xen). Say Y or M. | |
| config BLK_DEV_HD | |
| bool "Very old hard disk (MFM/RLL/IDE) driver" | |
| depends on HAVE_IDE | |
| depends on !ARM || ARCH_RPC || ARCH_SHARK || BROKEN | |
| help | |
| This is a very old hard disk driver that lacks the enhanced | |
| functionality of the newer ones. | |
| It is required for systems with ancient MFM/RLL/ESDI drives. | |
| If unsure, say N. | |
| config BLK_DEV_RBD | |
| tristate "Rados block device (RBD)" | |
| depends on INET && EXPERIMENTAL && BLOCK | |
| select CEPH_LIB | |
| select LIBCRC32C | |
| select CRYPTO_AES | |
| select CRYPTO | |
| default n | |
| help | |
| Say Y here if you want include the Rados block device, which stripes | |
| a block device over objects stored in the Ceph distributed object | |
| store. | |
| More information at http://ceph.newdream.net/. | |
| If unsure, say N. | |
| endif # BLK_DEV |