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  1. menuconfig MTD_UBI
  2. tristate "Enable UBI - Unsorted block images"
  3. select CRC32
  4. help
  5. UBI is a software layer above MTD layer which admits use of LVM-like
  6. logical volumes on top of MTD devices, hides some complexities of
  7. flash chips like wear and bad blocks and provides some other useful
  8. capabilities. Please, consult the MTD web site for more details
  9. (www.linux-mtd.infradead.org).
  10. if MTD_UBI
  11. config MTD_UBI_WL_THRESHOLD
  12. int "UBI wear-leveling threshold"
  13. default 4096
  14. range 2 65536
  15. help
  16. This parameter defines the maximum difference between the highest
  17. erase counter value and the lowest erase counter value of eraseblocks
  18. of UBI devices. When this threshold is exceeded, UBI starts performing
  19. wear leveling by means of moving data from eraseblock with low erase
  20. counter to eraseblocks with high erase counter.
  21. The default value should be OK for SLC NAND flashes, NOR flashes and
  22. other flashes which have eraseblock life-cycle 100000 or more.
  23. However, in case of MLC NAND flashes which typically have eraseblock
  24. life-cycle less than 10000, the threshold should be lessened (e.g.,
  25. to 128 or 256, although it does not have to be power of 2).
  26. config MTD_UBI_BEB_LIMIT
  27. int "Maximum expected bad eraseblock count per 1024 eraseblocks"
  28. default 20
  29. range 0 768
  30. help
  31. This option specifies the maximum bad physical eraseblocks UBI
  32. expects on the MTD device (per 1024 eraseblocks). If the underlying
  33. flash does not admit of bad eraseblocks (e.g. NOR flash), this value
  34. is ignored.
  35. NAND datasheets often specify the minimum and maximum NVM (Number of
  36. Valid Blocks) for the flashes' endurance lifetime. The maximum
  37. expected bad eraseblocks per 1024 eraseblocks then can be calculated
  38. as "1024 * (1 - MinNVB / MaxNVB)", which gives 20 for most NANDs
  39. (MaxNVB is basically the total count of eraseblocks on the chip).
  40. To put it differently, if this value is 20, UBI will try to reserve
  41. about 1.9% of physical eraseblocks for bad blocks handling. And that
  42. will be 1.9% of eraseblocks on the entire NAND chip, not just the MTD
  43. partition UBI attaches. This means that if you have, say, a NAND
  44. flash chip admits maximum 40 bad eraseblocks, and it is split on two
  45. MTD partitions of the same size, UBI will reserve 40 eraseblocks when
  46. attaching a partition.
  47. This option can be overridden by the "mtd=" UBI module parameter or
  48. by the "attach" ioctl.
  49. Leave the default value if unsure.
  50. config MTD_UBI_FASTMAP
  51. bool "UBI Fastmap (Experimental feature)"
  52. default n
  53. help
  54. Important: this feature is experimental so far and the on-flash
  55. format for fastmap may change in the next kernel versions
  56. Fastmap is a mechanism which allows attaching an UBI device
  57. in nearly constant time. Instead of scanning the whole MTD device it
  58. only has to locate a checkpoint (called fastmap) on the device.
  59. The on-flash fastmap contains all information needed to attach
  60. the device. Using fastmap makes only sense on large devices where
  61. attaching by scanning takes long. UBI will not automatically install
  62. a fastmap on old images, but you can set the UBI module parameter
  63. fm_autoconvert to 1 if you want so. Please note that fastmap-enabled
  64. images are still usable with UBI implementations without
  65. fastmap support. On typical flash devices the whole fastmap fits
  66. into one PEB. UBI will reserve PEBs to hold two fastmaps.
  67. If in doubt, say "N".
  68. config MTD_UBI_GLUEBI
  69. tristate "MTD devices emulation driver (gluebi)"
  70. help
  71. This option enables gluebi - an additional driver which emulates MTD
  72. devices on top of UBI volumes: for each UBI volumes an MTD device is
  73. created, and all I/O to this MTD device is redirected to the UBI
  74. volume. This is handy to make MTD-oriented software (like JFFS2)
  75. work on top of UBI. Do not enable this unless you use legacy
  76. software.
  77. config MTD_UBI_BLOCK
  78. bool "Read-only block devices on top of UBI volumes"
  79. default n
  80. depends on BLOCK
  81. help
  82. This option enables read-only UBI block devices support. UBI block
  83. devices will be layered on top of UBI volumes, which means that the
  84. UBI driver will transparently handle things like bad eraseblocks and
  85. bit-flips. You can put any block-oriented file system on top of UBI
  86. volumes in read-only mode (e.g., ext4), but it is probably most
  87. practical for read-only file systems, like squashfs.
  88. When selected, this feature will be built in the UBI driver.
  89. If in doubt, say "N".
  90. endif # MTD_UBI