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- #
- # 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_NULL_BLK
- tristate "Null test block driver"
- 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 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"
- source "drivers/block/mtip32xx/Kconfig"
- source "drivers/block/zram/Kconfig"
- config BLK_CPQ_CISS_DA
- tristate "Compaq Smart Array 5xxx support"
- depends on PCI
- select CHECK_SIGNATURE
- 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"
- depends on PCI
- ---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_LOOP_MIN_COUNT
- int "Number of loop devices to pre-create at init time"
- depends on BLK_DEV_LOOP
- default 8
- help
- Static number of loop devices to be unconditionally pre-created
- at init time.
- This default value can be overwritten on the kernel command
- line or with module-parameter loop.max_loop.
- The historic default is 8. If a late 2011 version of losetup(8)
- is used, it can be set to 0, since needed loop devices can be
- dynamically allocated with the /dev/loop-control interface.
- 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_SKD
- tristate "STEC S1120 Block Driver"
- depends on PCI
- depends on 64BIT
- ---help---
- Saying Y or M here will enable support for the
- STEC, Inc. S1120 PCIe SSD.
- Use device /dev/skd$N amd /dev/skd$Np$M.
- config BLK_DEV_OSD
- tristate "OSD object-as-blkdev support"
- depends on SCSI_OSD_ULD
- ---help---
- Saying Y or M here will allow the exporting of a single SCSI
- OSD (object-based storage) object as a Linux block device.
- For example, if you create a 2G object on an OSD device,
- you can then use this module to present that 2G object as
- a Linux block device.
- To compile this driver as a module, choose M here: the
- module will be called osdblk.
- If unsure, say N.
- config BLK_DEV_SX8
- tristate "Promise SATA SX8 support"
- depends on PCI
- ---help---
- Saying Y or M here will enable support for the
- Promise SATA SX8 controllers.
- Use devices /dev/sx8/$N and /dev/sx8/$Np$M.
- config BLK_DEV_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 brd. An alias "rd" has been defined
- for historical reasons.
- 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_RAM_DAX
- bool "Support Direct Access (DAX) to RAM block devices"
- depends on BLK_DEV_RAM && FS_DAX
- default n
- help
- Support filesystems using DAX to access RAM block devices. This
- avoids double-buffering data in the page cache before copying it
- to the block device. Answering Y 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"
- depends on CDROM_PKTCDVD
- 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 XEN_BLKDEV_BACKEND
- tristate "Xen block-device backend driver"
- depends on XEN_BACKEND
- help
- The block-device backend driver allows the kernel to export its
- block devices to other guests via a high-performance shared-memory
- interface.
- The corresponding Linux frontend driver is enabled by the
- CONFIG_XEN_BLKDEV_FRONTEND configuration option.
- The backend driver attaches itself to a any block device specified
- in the XenBus configuration. There are no limits to what the block
- device as long as it has a major and minor.
- If you are compiling a kernel to run in a Xen block backend driver
- domain (often this is domain 0) you should say Y here. To
- compile this driver as a module, chose M here: the module
- will be called xen-blkback.
- config VIRTIO_BLK
- tristate "Virtio block driver"
- depends on 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 || 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 && 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.
- config BLK_DEV_RSXX
- tristate "IBM Flash Adapter 900GB Full Height PCIe Device Driver"
- depends on PCI
- help
- Device driver for IBM's high speed PCIe SSD
- storage device: Flash Adapter 900GB Full Height.
- To compile this driver as a module, choose M here: the
- module will be called rsxx.
- endif # BLK_DEV
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