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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 AMIGA_Z2RAM
  39. tristate "Amiga Zorro II ramdisk support"
  40. depends on ZORRO
  41. help
  42. This enables support for using Chip RAM and Zorro II RAM as a
  43. ramdisk or as a swap partition. Say Y if you want to include this
  44. driver in the kernel.
  45. To compile this driver as a module, choose M here: the
  46. module will be called z2ram.
  47. config BLK_DEV_XD
  48. tristate "XT hard disk support"
  49. depends on ISA && ISA_DMA_API
  50. select CHECK_SIGNATURE
  51. help
  52. Very old 8 bit hard disk controllers used in the IBM XT computer
  53. will be supported if you say Y here.
  54. To compile this driver as a module, choose M here: the
  55. module will be called xd.
  56. It's pretty unlikely that you have one of these: say N.
  57. config PARIDE
  58. tristate "Parallel port IDE device support"
  59. depends on PARPORT_PC
  60. ---help---
  61. There are many external CD-ROM and disk devices that connect through
  62. your computer's parallel port. Most of them are actually IDE devices
  63. using a parallel port IDE adapter. This option enables the PARIDE
  64. subsystem which contains drivers for many of these external drives.
  65. Read <file:Documentation/paride.txt> for more information.
  66. If you have said Y to the "Parallel-port support" configuration
  67. option, you may share a single port between your printer and other
  68. parallel port devices. Answer Y to build PARIDE support into your
  69. kernel, or M if you would like to build it as a loadable module. If
  70. your parallel port support is in a loadable module, you must build
  71. PARIDE as a module. If you built PARIDE support into your kernel,
  72. you may still build the individual protocol modules and high-level
  73. drivers as loadable modules. If you build this support as a module,
  74. it will be called paride.
  75. To use the PARIDE support, you must say Y or M here and also to at
  76. least one high-level driver (e.g. "Parallel port IDE disks",
  77. "Parallel port ATAPI CD-ROMs", "Parallel port ATAPI disks" etc.) and
  78. to at least one protocol driver (e.g. "ATEN EH-100 protocol",
  79. "MicroSolutions backpack protocol", "DataStor Commuter protocol"
  80. etc.).
  81. config GDROM
  82. tristate "SEGA Dreamcast GD-ROM drive"
  83. depends on SH_DREAMCAST
  84. help
  85. A standard SEGA Dreamcast comes with a modified CD ROM drive called a
  86. "GD-ROM" by SEGA to signify it is capable of reading special disks
  87. with up to 1 GB of data. This drive will also read standard CD ROM
  88. disks. Select this option to access any disks in your GD ROM drive.
  89. Most users will want to say "Y" here.
  90. You can also build this as a module which will be called gdrom.ko
  91. source "drivers/block/paride/Kconfig"
  92. config BLK_CPQ_DA
  93. tristate "Compaq SMART2 support"
  94. depends on PCI && VIRT_TO_BUS
  95. help
  96. This is the driver for Compaq Smart Array controllers. Everyone
  97. using these boards should say Y here. See the file
  98. <file:Documentation/cpqarray.txt> for the current list of boards
  99. supported by this driver, and for further information on the use of
  100. this driver.
  101. config BLK_CPQ_CISS_DA
  102. tristate "Compaq Smart Array 5xxx support"
  103. depends on PCI
  104. help
  105. This is the driver for Compaq Smart Array 5xxx controllers.
  106. Everyone using these boards should say Y here.
  107. See <file:Documentation/cciss.txt> for the current list of
  108. boards supported by this driver, and for further information
  109. on the use of this driver.
  110. config CISS_SCSI_TAPE
  111. bool "SCSI tape drive support for Smart Array 5xxx"
  112. depends on BLK_CPQ_CISS_DA && PROC_FS
  113. depends on SCSI=y || SCSI=BLK_CPQ_CISS_DA
  114. help
  115. When enabled (Y), this option allows SCSI tape drives and SCSI medium
  116. changers (tape robots) to be accessed via a Compaq 5xxx array
  117. controller. (See <file:Documentation/cciss.txt> for more details.)
  118. "SCSI support" and "SCSI tape support" must also be enabled for this
  119. option to work.
  120. When this option is disabled (N), the SCSI portion of the driver
  121. is not compiled.
  122. config BLK_DEV_DAC960
  123. tristate "Mylex DAC960/DAC1100 PCI RAID Controller support"
  124. depends on PCI
  125. help
  126. This driver adds support for the Mylex DAC960, AcceleRAID, and
  127. eXtremeRAID PCI RAID controllers. See the file
  128. <file:Documentation/README.DAC960> for further information about
  129. this driver.
  130. To compile this driver as a module, choose M here: the
  131. module will be called DAC960.
  132. config BLK_DEV_UMEM
  133. tristate "Micro Memory MM5415 Battery Backed RAM support (EXPERIMENTAL)"
  134. depends on PCI && EXPERIMENTAL
  135. ---help---
  136. Saying Y here will include support for the MM5415 family of
  137. battery backed (Non-volatile) RAM cards.
  138. <http://www.umem.com/>
  139. The cards appear as block devices that can be partitioned into
  140. as many as 15 partitions.
  141. To compile this driver as a module, choose M here: the
  142. module will be called umem.
  143. The umem driver has not yet been allocated a MAJOR number, so
  144. one is chosen dynamically.
  145. config BLK_DEV_UBD
  146. bool "Virtual block device"
  147. depends on UML
  148. ---help---
  149. The User-Mode Linux port includes a driver called UBD which will let
  150. you access arbitrary files on the host computer as block devices.
  151. Unless you know that you do not need such virtual block devices say
  152. Y here.
  153. config BLK_DEV_UBD_SYNC
  154. bool "Always do synchronous disk IO for UBD"
  155. depends on BLK_DEV_UBD
  156. ---help---
  157. Writes to the virtual block device are not immediately written to the
  158. host's disk; this may cause problems if, for example, the User-Mode
  159. Linux 'Virtual Machine' uses a journalling filesystem and the host
  160. computer crashes.
  161. Synchronous operation (i.e. always writing data to the host's disk
  162. immediately) is configurable on a per-UBD basis by using a special
  163. kernel command line option. Alternatively, you can say Y here to
  164. turn on synchronous operation by default for all block devices.
  165. If you're running a journalling file system (like reiserfs, for
  166. example) in your virtual machine, you will want to say Y here. If
  167. you care for the safety of the data in your virtual machine, Y is a
  168. wise choice too. In all other cases (for example, if you're just
  169. playing around with User-Mode Linux) you can choose N.
  170. config BLK_DEV_COW_COMMON
  171. bool
  172. default BLK_DEV_UBD
  173. config BLK_DEV_LOOP
  174. tristate "Loopback device support"
  175. ---help---
  176. Saying Y here will allow you to use a regular file as a block
  177. device; you can then create a file system on that block device and
  178. mount it just as you would mount other block devices such as hard
  179. drive partitions, CD-ROM drives or floppy drives. The loop devices
  180. are block special device files with major number 7 and typically
  181. called /dev/loop0, /dev/loop1 etc.
  182. This is useful if you want to check an ISO 9660 file system before
  183. burning the CD, or if you want to use floppy images without first
  184. writing them to floppy. Furthermore, some Linux distributions avoid
  185. the need for a dedicated Linux partition by keeping their complete
  186. root file system inside a DOS FAT file using this loop device
  187. driver.
  188. To use the loop device, you need the losetup utility, found in the
  189. util-linux package, see
  190. <ftp://ftp.kernel.org/pub/linux/utils/util-linux/>.
  191. The loop device driver can also be used to "hide" a file system in
  192. a disk partition, floppy, or regular file, either using encryption
  193. (scrambling the data) or steganography (hiding the data in the low
  194. bits of, say, a sound file). This is also safe if the file resides
  195. on a remote file server.
  196. There are several ways of encrypting disks. Some of these require
  197. kernel patches. The vanilla kernel offers the cryptoloop option
  198. and a Device Mapper target (which is superior, as it supports all
  199. file systems). If you want to use the cryptoloop, say Y to both
  200. LOOP and CRYPTOLOOP, and make sure you have a recent (version 2.12
  201. or later) version of util-linux. Additionally, be aware that
  202. the cryptoloop is not safe for storing journaled filesystems.
  203. Note that this loop device has nothing to do with the loopback
  204. device used for network connections from the machine to itself.
  205. To compile this driver as a module, choose M here: the
  206. module will be called loop.
  207. Most users will answer N here.
  208. config BLK_DEV_CRYPTOLOOP
  209. tristate "Cryptoloop Support"
  210. select CRYPTO
  211. select CRYPTO_CBC
  212. depends on BLK_DEV_LOOP
  213. ---help---
  214. Say Y here if you want to be able to use the ciphers that are
  215. provided by the CryptoAPI as loop transformation. This might be
  216. used as hard disk encryption.
  217. WARNING: This device is not safe for journaled file systems like
  218. ext3 or Reiserfs. Please use the Device Mapper crypto module
  219. instead, which can be configured to be on-disk compatible with the
  220. cryptoloop device.
  221. config BLK_DEV_NBD
  222. tristate "Network block device support"
  223. depends on NET
  224. ---help---
  225. Saying Y here will allow your computer to be a client for network
  226. block devices, i.e. it will be able to use block devices exported by
  227. servers (mount file systems on them etc.). Communication between
  228. client and server works over TCP/IP networking, but to the client
  229. program this is hidden: it looks like a regular local file access to
  230. a block device special file such as /dev/nd0.
  231. Network block devices also allows you to run a block-device in
  232. userland (making server and client physically the same computer,
  233. communicating using the loopback network device).
  234. Read <file:Documentation/nbd.txt> for more information, especially
  235. about where to find the server code, which runs in user space and
  236. does not need special kernel support.
  237. Note that this has nothing to do with the network file systems NFS
  238. or Coda; you can say N here even if you intend to use NFS or Coda.
  239. To compile this driver as a module, choose M here: the
  240. module will be called nbd.
  241. If unsure, say N.
  242. config BLK_DEV_SX8
  243. tristate "Promise SATA SX8 support"
  244. depends on PCI
  245. ---help---
  246. Saying Y or M here will enable support for the
  247. Promise SATA SX8 controllers.
  248. Use devices /dev/sx8/$N and /dev/sx8/$Np$M.
  249. config BLK_DEV_UB
  250. tristate "Low Performance USB Block driver"
  251. depends on USB
  252. help
  253. This driver supports certain USB attached storage devices
  254. such as flash keys.
  255. If you enable this driver, it is recommended to avoid conflicts
  256. with usb-storage by enabling USB_LIBUSUAL.
  257. If unsure, say N.
  258. config BLK_DEV_RAM
  259. tristate "RAM block device support"
  260. ---help---
  261. Saying Y here will allow you to use a portion of your RAM memory as
  262. a block device, so that you can make file systems on it, read and
  263. write to it and do all the other things that you can do with normal
  264. block devices (such as hard drives). It is usually used to load and
  265. store a copy of a minimal root file system off of a floppy into RAM
  266. during the initial install of Linux.
  267. Note that the kernel command line option "ramdisk=XX" is now
  268. obsolete. For details, read <file:Documentation/ramdisk.txt>.
  269. To compile this driver as a module, choose M here: the
  270. module will be called rd.
  271. Most normal users won't need the RAM disk functionality, and can
  272. thus say N here.
  273. config BLK_DEV_RAM_COUNT
  274. int "Default number of RAM disks"
  275. default "16"
  276. depends on BLK_DEV_RAM
  277. help
  278. The default value is 16 RAM disks. Change this if you know what you
  279. are doing. If you boot from a filesystem that needs to be extracted
  280. in memory, you will need at least one RAM disk (e.g. root on cramfs).
  281. config BLK_DEV_RAM_SIZE
  282. int "Default RAM disk size (kbytes)"
  283. depends on BLK_DEV_RAM
  284. default "4096"
  285. help
  286. The default value is 4096 kilobytes. Only change this if you know
  287. what you are doing.
  288. config BLK_DEV_XIP
  289. bool "Support XIP filesystems on RAM block device"
  290. depends on BLK_DEV_RAM
  291. default n
  292. help
  293. Support XIP filesystems (such as ext2 with XIP support on) on
  294. top of block ram device. This will slightly enlarge the kernel, and
  295. will prevent RAM block device backing store memory from being
  296. allocated from highmem (only a problem for highmem systems).
  297. config CDROM_PKTCDVD
  298. tristate "Packet writing on CD/DVD media"
  299. depends on !UML
  300. help
  301. If you have a CDROM/DVD drive that supports packet writing, say
  302. Y to include support. It should work with any MMC/Mt Fuji
  303. compliant ATAPI or SCSI drive, which is just about any newer
  304. DVD/CD writer.
  305. Currently only writing to CD-RW, DVD-RW, DVD+RW and DVDRAM discs
  306. is possible.
  307. DVD-RW disks must be in restricted overwrite mode.
  308. See the file <file:Documentation/cdrom/packet-writing.txt>
  309. for further information on the use of this driver.
  310. To compile this driver as a module, choose M here: the
  311. module will be called pktcdvd.
  312. config CDROM_PKTCDVD_BUFFERS
  313. int "Free buffers for data gathering"
  314. depends on CDROM_PKTCDVD
  315. default "8"
  316. help
  317. This controls the maximum number of active concurrent packets. More
  318. concurrent packets can increase write performance, but also require
  319. more memory. Each concurrent packet will require approximately 64Kb
  320. of non-swappable kernel memory, memory which will be allocated when
  321. a disc is opened for writing.
  322. config CDROM_PKTCDVD_WCACHE
  323. bool "Enable write caching (EXPERIMENTAL)"
  324. depends on CDROM_PKTCDVD && EXPERIMENTAL
  325. help
  326. If enabled, write caching will be set for the CD-R/W device. For now
  327. this option is dangerous unless the CD-RW media is known good, as we
  328. don't do deferred write error handling yet.
  329. config ATA_OVER_ETH
  330. tristate "ATA over Ethernet support"
  331. depends on NET
  332. help
  333. This driver provides Support for ATA over Ethernet block
  334. devices like the Coraid EtherDrive (R) Storage Blade.
  335. config SUNVDC
  336. tristate "Sun Virtual Disk Client support"
  337. depends on SUN_LDOMS
  338. help
  339. Support for virtual disk devices as a client under Sun
  340. Logical Domains.
  341. source "drivers/s390/block/Kconfig"
  342. config XILINX_SYSACE
  343. tristate "Xilinx SystemACE support"
  344. depends on 4xx
  345. help
  346. Include support for the Xilinx SystemACE CompactFlash interface
  347. config XEN_BLKDEV_FRONTEND
  348. tristate "Xen virtual block device support"
  349. depends on XEN
  350. default y
  351. help
  352. This driver implements the front-end of the Xen virtual
  353. block device driver. It communicates with a back-end driver
  354. in another domain which drives the actual block device.
  355. config VIRTIO_BLK
  356. tristate "Virtio block driver (EXPERIMENTAL)"
  357. depends on EXPERIMENTAL && VIRTIO
  358. ---help---
  359. This is the virtual block driver for virtio. It can be used with
  360. lguest or QEMU based VMMs (like KVM or Xen). Say Y or M.
  361. config BLK_DEV_HD
  362. bool "Very old hard disk (MFM/RLL/IDE) driver"
  363. depends on HAVE_IDE
  364. depends on !ARM || ARCH_RPC || ARCH_SHARK || BROKEN
  365. help
  366. This is a very old hard disk driver that lacks the enhanced
  367. functionality of the newer ones.
  368. It is required for systems with ancient MFM/RLL/ESDI drives.
  369. If unsure, say N.
  370. endif # BLK_DEV