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