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1 | # |
2 | # Block device driver configuration | |
3 | # | |
4 | ||
5 | menu "Block devices" | |
6 | ||
7 | config BLK_DEV_FD | |
8 | tristate "Normal floppy disk support" | |
461790f7 | 9 | depends on (!ARCH_S390 && !M68K && !IA64 && !UML && !ARM) || Q40 || (SUN3X && BROKEN) || ARCH_RPC || ARCH_EBSA285 |
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10 | ---help--- |
11 | If you want to use the floppy disk drive(s) of your PC under Linux, | |
12 | say Y. Information about this driver, especially important for IBM | |
13 | Thinkpad users, is contained in <file:Documentation/floppy.txt>. | |
14 | That file also contains the location of the Floppy driver FAQ as | |
15 | well as location of the fdutils package used to configure additional | |
16 | parameters of the driver at run time. | |
17 | ||
18 | To compile this driver as a module, choose M here: the | |
19 | module will be called floppy. | |
20 | ||
21 | config AMIGA_FLOPPY | |
22 | tristate "Amiga floppy support" | |
23 | depends on AMIGA | |
24 | ||
25 | config ATARI_FLOPPY | |
26 | tristate "Atari floppy support" | |
27 | depends on ATARI | |
28 | ||
29 | config BLK_DEV_SWIM_IOP | |
30 | bool "Macintosh IIfx/Quadra 900/Quadra 950 floppy support (EXPERIMENTAL)" | |
31 | depends on MAC && EXPERIMENTAL && BROKEN | |
32 | help | |
33 | Say Y here to support the SWIM (Super Woz Integrated Machine) IOP | |
34 | floppy controller on the Macintosh IIfx and Quadra 900/950. | |
35 | ||
36 | config MAC_FLOPPY | |
37 | tristate "Support for PowerMac floppy" | |
38 | depends on PPC_PMAC && !PPC_PMAC64 | |
39 | help | |
40 | If you have a SWIM-3 (Super Woz Integrated Machine 3; from Apple) | |
41 | floppy controller, say Y here. Most commonly found in PowerMacs. | |
42 | ||
43 | config BLK_DEV_PS2 | |
44 | tristate "PS/2 ESDI hard disk support" | |
45 | depends on MCA && MCA_LEGACY && BROKEN | |
46 | help | |
47 | Say Y here if you have a PS/2 machine with a MCA bus and an ESDI | |
48 | hard disk. | |
49 | ||
50 | To compile this driver as a module, choose M here: the | |
51 | module will be called ps2esdi. | |
52 | ||
53 | config AMIGA_Z2RAM | |
54 | tristate "Amiga Zorro II ramdisk support" | |
55 | depends on ZORRO | |
56 | help | |
57 | This enables support for using Chip RAM and Zorro II RAM as a | |
58 | ramdisk or as a swap partition. Say Y if you want to include this | |
59 | driver in the kernel. | |
60 | ||
61 | To compile this driver as a module, choose M here: the | |
62 | module will be called z2ram. | |
63 | ||
64 | config ATARI_ACSI | |
65 | tristate "Atari ACSI support" | |
66 | depends on ATARI && BROKEN | |
67 | ---help--- | |
68 | This enables support for the Atari ACSI interface. The driver | |
69 | supports hard disks and CD-ROMs, which have 512-byte sectors, or can | |
70 | be switched to that mode. Due to the ACSI command format, only disks | |
71 | up to 1 GB are supported. Special support for certain ACSI to SCSI | |
72 | adapters, which could relax that, isn't included yet. The ACSI | |
73 | driver is also the basis for certain other drivers for devices | |
74 | attached to the ACSI bus: Atari SLM laser printer, BioNet-100 | |
75 | Ethernet, and PAMsNet Ethernet. If you want to use one of these | |
76 | devices, you need ACSI support, too. | |
77 | ||
78 | To compile this driver as a module, choose M here: the | |
79 | module will be called acsi. | |
80 | ||
81 | comment "Some devices (e.g. CD jukebox) support multiple LUNs" | |
82 | depends on ATARI && ATARI_ACSI | |
83 | ||
84 | config ACSI_MULTI_LUN | |
85 | bool "Probe all LUNs on each ACSI device" | |
86 | depends on ATARI_ACSI | |
87 | help | |
88 | If you have a ACSI device that supports more than one LUN (Logical | |
89 | Unit Number), e.g. a CD jukebox, you should say Y here so that all | |
90 | will be found by the ACSI driver. An ACSI device with multiple LUNs | |
91 | acts logically like multiple ACSI devices. The vast majority of ACSI | |
92 | devices have only one LUN, and so most people can say N here and | |
93 | should in fact do so, because it is safer. | |
94 | ||
95 | config ATARI_SLM | |
96 | tristate "Atari SLM laser printer support" | |
97 | depends on ATARI && ATARI_ACSI!=n | |
98 | help | |
99 | If you have an Atari SLM laser printer, say Y to include support for | |
100 | it in the kernel. Otherwise, say N. This driver is also available as | |
101 | a module ( = code which can be inserted in and removed from the | |
102 | running kernel whenever you want). The module will be called | |
103 | acsi_slm. Be warned: the driver needs much ST-RAM and can cause | |
104 | problems due to that fact! | |
105 | ||
106 | config BLK_DEV_XD | |
107 | tristate "XT hard disk support" | |
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109 | help |
110 | Very old 8 bit hard disk controllers used in the IBM XT computer | |
111 | will be supported if you say Y here. | |
112 | ||
113 | To compile this driver as a module, choose M here: the | |
114 | module will be called xd. | |
115 | ||
116 | It's pretty unlikely that you have one of these: say N. | |
117 | ||
118 | config PARIDE | |
119 | tristate "Parallel port IDE device support" | |
120 | depends on PARPORT | |
121 | ---help--- | |
122 | There are many external CD-ROM and disk devices that connect through | |
123 | your computer's parallel port. Most of them are actually IDE devices | |
124 | using a parallel port IDE adapter. This option enables the PARIDE | |
125 | subsystem which contains drivers for many of these external drives. | |
126 | Read <file:Documentation/paride.txt> for more information. | |
127 | ||
128 | If you have said Y to the "Parallel-port support" configuration | |
129 | option, you may share a single port between your printer and other | |
130 | parallel port devices. Answer Y to build PARIDE support into your | |
131 | kernel, or M if you would like to build it as a loadable module. If | |
132 | your parallel port support is in a loadable module, you must build | |
133 | PARIDE as a module. If you built PARIDE support into your kernel, | |
134 | you may still build the individual protocol modules and high-level | |
135 | drivers as loadable modules. If you build this support as a module, | |
136 | it will be called paride. | |
137 | ||
138 | To use the PARIDE support, you must say Y or M here and also to at | |
139 | least one high-level driver (e.g. "Parallel port IDE disks", | |
140 | "Parallel port ATAPI CD-ROMs", "Parallel port ATAPI disks" etc.) and | |
141 | to at least one protocol driver (e.g. "ATEN EH-100 protocol", | |
142 | "MicroSolutions backpack protocol", "DataStor Commuter protocol" | |
143 | etc.). | |
144 | ||
145 | source "drivers/block/paride/Kconfig" | |
146 | ||
147 | config BLK_CPQ_DA | |
148 | tristate "Compaq SMART2 support" | |
149 | depends on PCI | |
150 | help | |
151 | This is the driver for Compaq Smart Array controllers. Everyone | |
152 | using these boards should say Y here. See the file | |
153 | <file:Documentation/cpqarray.txt> for the current list of boards | |
154 | supported by this driver, and for further information on the use of | |
155 | this driver. | |
156 | ||
157 | config BLK_CPQ_CISS_DA | |
158 | tristate "Compaq Smart Array 5xxx support" | |
159 | depends on PCI | |
160 | help | |
161 | This is the driver for Compaq Smart Array 5xxx controllers. | |
162 | Everyone using these boards should say Y here. | |
163 | See <file:Documentation/cciss.txt> for the current list of | |
164 | boards supported by this driver, and for further information | |
165 | on the use of this driver. | |
166 | ||
167 | config CISS_SCSI_TAPE | |
168 | bool "SCSI tape drive support for Smart Array 5xxx" | |
169 | depends on BLK_CPQ_CISS_DA && SCSI && PROC_FS | |
170 | help | |
171 | When enabled (Y), this option allows SCSI tape drives and SCSI medium | |
172 | changers (tape robots) to be accessed via a Compaq 5xxx array | |
173 | controller. (See <file:Documentation/cciss.txt> for more details.) | |
174 | ||
175 | "SCSI support" and "SCSI tape support" must also be enabled for this | |
176 | option to work. | |
177 | ||
178 | When this option is disabled (N), the SCSI portion of the driver | |
179 | is not compiled. | |
180 | ||
181 | config BLK_DEV_DAC960 | |
182 | tristate "Mylex DAC960/DAC1100 PCI RAID Controller support" | |
183 | depends on PCI | |
184 | help | |
185 | This driver adds support for the Mylex DAC960, AcceleRAID, and | |
186 | eXtremeRAID PCI RAID controllers. See the file | |
187 | <file:Documentation/README.DAC960> for further information about | |
188 | this driver. | |
189 | ||
190 | To compile this driver as a module, choose M here: the | |
191 | module will be called DAC960. | |
192 | ||
193 | config BLK_DEV_UMEM | |
194 | tristate "Micro Memory MM5415 Battery Backed RAM support (EXPERIMENTAL)" | |
195 | depends on PCI && EXPERIMENTAL | |
196 | ---help--- | |
197 | Saying Y here will include support for the MM5415 family of | |
198 | battery backed (Non-volatile) RAM cards. | |
199 | <http://www.umem.com/> | |
200 | ||
201 | The cards appear as block devices that can be partitioned into | |
202 | as many as 15 partitions. | |
203 | ||
204 | To compile this driver as a module, choose M here: the | |
205 | module will be called umem. | |
206 | ||
207 | The umem driver has not yet been allocated a MAJOR number, so | |
208 | one is chosen dynamically. Use "devfs" or look in /proc/devices | |
209 | for the device number | |
210 | ||
211 | config BLK_DEV_UBD | |
212 | bool "Virtual block device" | |
213 | depends on UML | |
214 | ---help--- | |
215 | The User-Mode Linux port includes a driver called UBD which will let | |
216 | you access arbitrary files on the host computer as block devices. | |
217 | Unless you know that you do not need such virtual block devices say | |
218 | Y here. | |
219 | ||
220 | config BLK_DEV_UBD_SYNC | |
221 | bool "Always do synchronous disk IO for UBD" | |
222 | depends on BLK_DEV_UBD | |
223 | ---help--- | |
224 | Writes to the virtual block device are not immediately written to the | |
225 | host's disk; this may cause problems if, for example, the User-Mode | |
226 | Linux 'Virtual Machine' uses a journalling filesystem and the host | |
227 | computer crashes. | |
228 | ||
229 | Synchronous operation (i.e. always writing data to the host's disk | |
230 | immediately) is configurable on a per-UBD basis by using a special | |
231 | kernel command line option. Alternatively, you can say Y here to | |
232 | turn on synchronous operation by default for all block devices. | |
233 | ||
234 | If you're running a journalling file system (like reiserfs, for | |
235 | example) in your virtual machine, you will want to say Y here. If | |
236 | you care for the safety of the data in your virtual machine, Y is a | |
237 | wise choice too. In all other cases (for example, if you're just | |
238 | playing around with User-Mode Linux) you can choose N. | |
239 | ||
240 | config BLK_DEV_COW_COMMON | |
241 | bool | |
242 | default BLK_DEV_UBD | |
243 | ||
244 | config MMAPPER | |
245 | tristate "Example IO memory driver (BROKEN)" | |
246 | depends on UML && BROKEN | |
247 | ---help--- | |
248 | The User-Mode Linux port can provide support for IO Memory | |
249 | emulation with this option. This allows a host file to be | |
250 | specified as an I/O region on the kernel command line. That file | |
251 | will be mapped into UML's kernel address space where a driver can | |
252 | locate it and do whatever it wants with the memory, including | |
253 | providing an interface to it for UML processes to use. | |
254 | ||
255 | For more information, see | |
256 | <http://user-mode-linux.sourceforge.net/iomem.html>. | |
257 | ||
258 | If you'd like to be able to provide a simulated IO port space for | |
259 | User-Mode Linux processes, say Y. If unsure, say N. | |
260 | ||
261 | config BLK_DEV_LOOP | |
262 | tristate "Loopback device support" | |
263 | ---help--- | |
264 | Saying Y here will allow you to use a regular file as a block | |
265 | device; you can then create a file system on that block device and | |
266 | mount it just as you would mount other block devices such as hard | |
267 | drive partitions, CD-ROM drives or floppy drives. The loop devices | |
268 | are block special device files with major number 7 and typically | |
269 | called /dev/loop0, /dev/loop1 etc. | |
270 | ||
271 | This is useful if you want to check an ISO 9660 file system before | |
272 | burning the CD, or if you want to use floppy images without first | |
273 | writing them to floppy. Furthermore, some Linux distributions avoid | |
274 | the need for a dedicated Linux partition by keeping their complete | |
275 | root file system inside a DOS FAT file using this loop device | |
276 | driver. | |
277 | ||
278 | To use the loop device, you need the losetup utility, found in the | |
279 | util-linux package, see | |
280 | <ftp://ftp.kernel.org/pub/linux/utils/util-linux/>. | |
281 | ||
282 | The loop device driver can also be used to "hide" a file system in | |
283 | a disk partition, floppy, or regular file, either using encryption | |
284 | (scrambling the data) or steganography (hiding the data in the low | |
285 | bits of, say, a sound file). This is also safe if the file resides | |
286 | on a remote file server. | |
287 | ||
288 | There are several ways of encrypting disks. Some of these require | |
289 | kernel patches. The vanilla kernel offers the cryptoloop option | |
290 | and a Device Mapper target (which is superior, as it supports all | |
291 | file systems). If you want to use the cryptoloop, say Y to both | |
292 | LOOP and CRYPTOLOOP, and make sure you have a recent (version 2.12 | |
293 | or later) version of util-linux. Additionally, be aware that | |
294 | the cryptoloop is not safe for storing journaled filesystems. | |
295 | ||
296 | Note that this loop device has nothing to do with the loopback | |
297 | device used for network connections from the machine to itself. | |
298 | ||
299 | To compile this driver as a module, choose M here: the | |
300 | module will be called loop. | |
301 | ||
302 | Most users will answer N here. | |
303 | ||
304 | config BLK_DEV_CRYPTOLOOP | |
305 | tristate "Cryptoloop Support" | |
306 | select CRYPTO | |
307 | depends on BLK_DEV_LOOP | |
308 | ---help--- | |
309 | Say Y here if you want to be able to use the ciphers that are | |
310 | provided by the CryptoAPI as loop transformation. This might be | |
311 | used as hard disk encryption. | |
312 | ||
313 | WARNING: This device is not safe for journaled file systems like | |
314 | ext3 or Reiserfs. Please use the Device Mapper crypto module | |
315 | instead, which can be configured to be on-disk compatible with the | |
316 | cryptoloop device. | |
317 | ||
318 | config BLK_DEV_NBD | |
319 | tristate "Network block device support" | |
320 | depends on NET | |
321 | ---help--- | |
322 | Saying Y here will allow your computer to be a client for network | |
323 | block devices, i.e. it will be able to use block devices exported by | |
324 | servers (mount file systems on them etc.). Communication between | |
325 | client and server works over TCP/IP networking, but to the client | |
326 | program this is hidden: it looks like a regular local file access to | |
327 | a block device special file such as /dev/nd0. | |
328 | ||
329 | Network block devices also allows you to run a block-device in | |
330 | userland (making server and client physically the same computer, | |
331 | communicating using the loopback network device). | |
332 | ||
333 | Read <file:Documentation/nbd.txt> for more information, especially | |
334 | about where to find the server code, which runs in user space and | |
335 | does not need special kernel support. | |
336 | ||
337 | Note that this has nothing to do with the network file systems NFS | |
338 | or Coda; you can say N here even if you intend to use NFS or Coda. | |
339 | ||
340 | To compile this driver as a module, choose M here: the | |
341 | module will be called nbd. | |
342 | ||
343 | If unsure, say N. | |
344 | ||
345 | config BLK_DEV_SX8 | |
346 | tristate "Promise SATA SX8 support" | |
347 | depends on PCI | |
348 | ---help--- | |
349 | Saying Y or M here will enable support for the | |
350 | Promise SATA SX8 controllers. | |
351 | ||
352 | Use devices /dev/sx8/$N and /dev/sx8/$Np$M. | |
353 | ||
354 | config BLK_DEV_UB | |
355 | tristate "Low Performance USB Block driver" | |
356 | depends on USB | |
357 | help | |
358 | This driver supports certain USB attached storage devices | |
359 | such as flash keys. | |
360 | ||
361 | Warning: Enabling this cripples the usb-storage driver. | |
362 | ||
363 | If unsure, say N. | |
364 | ||
365 | config BLK_DEV_RAM | |
366 | tristate "RAM disk support" | |
367 | ---help--- | |
368 | Saying Y here will allow you to use a portion of your RAM memory as | |
369 | a block device, so that you can make file systems on it, read and | |
370 | write to it and do all the other things that you can do with normal | |
371 | block devices (such as hard drives). It is usually used to load and | |
372 | store a copy of a minimal root file system off of a floppy into RAM | |
373 | during the initial install of Linux. | |
374 | ||
375 | Note that the kernel command line option "ramdisk=XX" is now | |
376 | obsolete. For details, read <file:Documentation/ramdisk.txt>. | |
377 | ||
378 | To compile this driver as a module, choose M here: the | |
379 | module will be called rd. | |
380 | ||
381 | Most normal users won't need the RAM disk functionality, and can | |
382 | thus say N here. | |
383 | ||
384 | config BLK_DEV_RAM_COUNT | |
385 | int "Default number of RAM disks" if BLK_DEV_RAM | |
386 | default "16" | |
387 | help | |
388 | The default value is 16 RAM disks. Change this if you know what | |
389 | are doing. If you boot from a filesystem that needs to be extracted | |
390 | in memory, you will need at least one RAM disk (e.g. root on cramfs). | |
391 | ||
392 | config BLK_DEV_RAM_SIZE | |
393 | int "Default RAM disk size (kbytes)" | |
394 | depends on BLK_DEV_RAM | |
395 | default "4096" | |
396 | help | |
397 | The default value is 4096 kilobytes. Only change this if you know | |
398 | what are you doing. If you are using IBM S/390, then set this to | |
399 | 8192. | |
400 | ||
401 | config BLK_DEV_INITRD | |
402 | bool "Initial RAM disk (initrd) support" | |
403 | depends on BLK_DEV_RAM=y | |
404 | help | |
405 | The initial RAM disk is a RAM disk that is loaded by the boot loader | |
406 | (loadlin or lilo) and that is mounted as root before the normal boot | |
407 | procedure. It is typically used to load modules needed to mount the | |
408 | "real" root file system, etc. See <file:Documentation/initrd.txt> | |
409 | for details. | |
410 | ||
411 | config INITRAMFS_SOURCE | |
412 | string "Initramfs source file(s)" | |
413 | default "" | |
414 | help | |
415 | This can be either a single cpio archive with a .cpio suffix or a | |
416 | space-separated list of directories and files for building the | |
417 | initramfs image. A cpio archive should contain a filesystem archive | |
418 | to be used as an initramfs image. Directories should contain a | |
419 | filesystem layout to be included in the initramfs image. Files | |
420 | should contain entries according to the format described by the | |
421 | "usr/gen_init_cpio" program in the kernel tree. | |
422 | ||
423 | When multiple directories and files are specified then the | |
424 | initramfs image will be the aggregate of all of them. | |
425 | ||
426 | See <file:Documentation/early-userspace/README for more details. | |
427 | ||
428 | If you are not sure, leave it blank. | |
429 | ||
430 | config INITRAMFS_ROOT_UID | |
431 | int "User ID to map to 0 (user root)" | |
432 | depends on INITRAMFS_SOURCE!="" | |
433 | default "0" | |
434 | help | |
435 | This setting is only meaningful if the INITRAMFS_SOURCE is | |
436 | contains a directory. Setting this user ID (UID) to something | |
437 | other than "0" will cause all files owned by that UID to be | |
438 | owned by user root in the initial ramdisk image. | |
439 | ||
440 | If you are not sure, leave it set to "0". | |
441 | ||
442 | config INITRAMFS_ROOT_GID | |
443 | int "Group ID to map to 0 (group root)" | |
444 | depends on INITRAMFS_SOURCE!="" | |
445 | default "0" | |
446 | help | |
447 | This setting is only meaningful if the INITRAMFS_SOURCE is | |
448 | contains a directory. Setting this group ID (GID) to something | |
449 | other than "0" will cause all files owned by that GID to be | |
450 | owned by group root in the initial ramdisk image. | |
451 | ||
452 | If you are not sure, leave it set to "0". | |
453 | ||
454 | #XXX - it makes sense to enable this only for 32-bit subarch's, not for x86_64 | |
455 | #for instance. | |
456 | config LBD | |
457 | bool "Support for Large Block Devices" | |
458 | depends on X86 || MIPS32 || PPC32 || ARCH_S390_31 || SUPERH || UML | |
459 | help | |
460 | Say Y here if you want to attach large (bigger than 2TB) discs to | |
461 | your machine, or if you want to have a raid or loopback device | |
462 | bigger than 2TB. Otherwise say N. | |
463 | ||
464 | config CDROM_PKTCDVD | |
465 | tristate "Packet writing on CD/DVD media" | |
466 | depends on !UML | |
467 | help | |
468 | If you have a CDROM drive that supports packet writing, say Y to | |
469 | include preliminary support. It should work with any MMC/Mt Fuji | |
470 | compliant ATAPI or SCSI drive, which is just about any newer CD | |
471 | writer. | |
472 | ||
473 | Currently only writing to CD-RW, DVD-RW and DVD+RW discs is possible. | |
474 | DVD-RW disks must be in restricted overwrite mode. | |
475 | ||
476 | To compile this driver as a module, choose M here: the | |
477 | module will be called pktcdvd. | |
478 | ||
479 | config CDROM_PKTCDVD_BUFFERS | |
480 | int "Free buffers for data gathering" | |
481 | depends on CDROM_PKTCDVD | |
482 | default "8" | |
483 | help | |
484 | This controls the maximum number of active concurrent packets. More | |
485 | concurrent packets can increase write performance, but also require | |
486 | more memory. Each concurrent packet will require approximately 64Kb | |
487 | of non-swappable kernel memory, memory which will be allocated at | |
488 | pktsetup time. | |
489 | ||
490 | config CDROM_PKTCDVD_WCACHE | |
491 | bool "Enable write caching" | |
492 | depends on CDROM_PKTCDVD | |
493 | help | |
494 | If enabled, write caching will be set for the CD-R/W device. For now | |
495 | this option is dangerous unless the CD-RW media is known good, as we | |
496 | don't do deferred write error handling yet. | |
497 | ||
498 | source "drivers/s390/block/Kconfig" | |
499 | ||
500 | source "drivers/block/Kconfig.iosched" | |
501 | ||
502 | config ATA_OVER_ETH | |
503 | tristate "ATA over Ethernet support" | |
504 | depends on NET | |
505 | help | |
506 | This driver provides Support for ATA over Ethernet block | |
507 | devices like the Coraid EtherDrive (R) Storage Blade. | |
508 | ||
509 | endmenu |