2 # Block device driver configuration
13 tristate "Normal floppy disk support"
14 depends on ARCH_MAY_HAVE_PC_FDC
16 If you want to use the floppy disk drive(s) of your PC under Linux,
17 say Y. Information about this driver, especially important for IBM
18 Thinkpad users, is contained in <file:Documentation/floppy.txt>.
19 That file also contains the location of the Floppy driver FAQ as
20 well as location of the fdutils package used to configure additional
21 parameters of the driver at run time.
23 To compile this driver as a module, choose M here: the
24 module will be called floppy.
27 tristate "Amiga floppy support"
31 tristate "Atari floppy support"
35 tristate "Support for PowerMac floppy"
36 depends on PPC_PMAC && !PPC_PMAC64
38 If you have a SWIM-3 (Super Woz Integrated Machine 3; from Apple)
39 floppy controller, say Y here. Most commonly found in PowerMacs.
42 tristate "PS/2 ESDI hard disk support"
43 depends on MCA && MCA_LEGACY && BROKEN
45 Say Y here if you have a PS/2 machine with a MCA bus and an ESDI
48 To compile this driver as a module, choose M here: the
49 module will be called ps2esdi.
52 tristate "Amiga Zorro II ramdisk support"
55 This enables support for using Chip RAM and Zorro II RAM as a
56 ramdisk or as a swap partition. Say Y if you want to include this
59 To compile this driver as a module, choose M here: the
60 module will be called z2ram.
63 tristate "XT hard disk support"
64 depends on ISA && ISA_DMA_API
66 Very old 8 bit hard disk controllers used in the IBM XT computer
67 will be supported if you say Y here.
69 To compile this driver as a module, choose M here: the
70 module will be called xd.
72 It's pretty unlikely that you have one of these: say N.
75 tristate "Parallel port IDE device support"
78 There are many external CD-ROM and disk devices that connect through
79 your computer's parallel port. Most of them are actually IDE devices
80 using a parallel port IDE adapter. This option enables the PARIDE
81 subsystem which contains drivers for many of these external drives.
82 Read <file:Documentation/paride.txt> for more information.
84 If you have said Y to the "Parallel-port support" configuration
85 option, you may share a single port between your printer and other
86 parallel port devices. Answer Y to build PARIDE support into your
87 kernel, or M if you would like to build it as a loadable module. If
88 your parallel port support is in a loadable module, you must build
89 PARIDE as a module. If you built PARIDE support into your kernel,
90 you may still build the individual protocol modules and high-level
91 drivers as loadable modules. If you build this support as a module,
92 it will be called paride.
94 To use the PARIDE support, you must say Y or M here and also to at
95 least one high-level driver (e.g. "Parallel port IDE disks",
96 "Parallel port ATAPI CD-ROMs", "Parallel port ATAPI disks" etc.) and
97 to at least one protocol driver (e.g. "ATEN EH-100 protocol",
98 "MicroSolutions backpack protocol", "DataStor Commuter protocol"
101 source "drivers/block/paride/Kconfig"
104 tristate "Compaq SMART2 support"
105 depends on PCI && VIRT_TO_BUS
107 This is the driver for Compaq Smart Array controllers. Everyone
108 using these boards should say Y here. See the file
109 <file:Documentation/cpqarray.txt> for the current list of boards
110 supported by this driver, and for further information on the use of
113 config BLK_CPQ_CISS_DA
114 tristate "Compaq Smart Array 5xxx support"
117 This is the driver for Compaq Smart Array 5xxx controllers.
118 Everyone using these boards should say Y here.
119 See <file:Documentation/cciss.txt> for the current list of
120 boards supported by this driver, and for further information
121 on the use of this driver.
123 config CISS_SCSI_TAPE
124 bool "SCSI tape drive support for Smart Array 5xxx"
125 depends on BLK_CPQ_CISS_DA && PROC_FS
126 depends on SCSI=y || SCSI=BLK_CPQ_CISS_DA
128 When enabled (Y), this option allows SCSI tape drives and SCSI medium
129 changers (tape robots) to be accessed via a Compaq 5xxx array
130 controller. (See <file:Documentation/cciss.txt> for more details.)
132 "SCSI support" and "SCSI tape support" must also be enabled for this
135 When this option is disabled (N), the SCSI portion of the driver
138 config BLK_DEV_DAC960
139 tristate "Mylex DAC960/DAC1100 PCI RAID Controller support"
142 This driver adds support for the Mylex DAC960, AcceleRAID, and
143 eXtremeRAID PCI RAID controllers. See the file
144 <file:Documentation/README.DAC960> for further information about
147 To compile this driver as a module, choose M here: the
148 module will be called DAC960.
151 tristate "Micro Memory MM5415 Battery Backed RAM support (EXPERIMENTAL)"
152 depends on PCI && EXPERIMENTAL
154 Saying Y here will include support for the MM5415 family of
155 battery backed (Non-volatile) RAM cards.
156 <http://www.umem.com/>
158 The cards appear as block devices that can be partitioned into
159 as many as 15 partitions.
161 To compile this driver as a module, choose M here: the
162 module will be called umem.
164 The umem driver has not yet been allocated a MAJOR number, so
165 one is chosen dynamically.
168 bool "Virtual block device"
171 The User-Mode Linux port includes a driver called UBD which will let
172 you access arbitrary files on the host computer as block devices.
173 Unless you know that you do not need such virtual block devices say
176 config BLK_DEV_UBD_SYNC
177 bool "Always do synchronous disk IO for UBD"
178 depends on BLK_DEV_UBD
180 Writes to the virtual block device are not immediately written to the
181 host's disk; this may cause problems if, for example, the User-Mode
182 Linux 'Virtual Machine' uses a journalling filesystem and the host
185 Synchronous operation (i.e. always writing data to the host's disk
186 immediately) is configurable on a per-UBD basis by using a special
187 kernel command line option. Alternatively, you can say Y here to
188 turn on synchronous operation by default for all block devices.
190 If you're running a journalling file system (like reiserfs, for
191 example) in your virtual machine, you will want to say Y here. If
192 you care for the safety of the data in your virtual machine, Y is a
193 wise choice too. In all other cases (for example, if you're just
194 playing around with User-Mode Linux) you can choose N.
196 config BLK_DEV_COW_COMMON
201 tristate "Example IO memory driver (BROKEN)"
202 depends on UML && BROKEN
204 The User-Mode Linux port can provide support for IO Memory
205 emulation with this option. This allows a host file to be
206 specified as an I/O region on the kernel command line. That file
207 will be mapped into UML's kernel address space where a driver can
208 locate it and do whatever it wants with the memory, including
209 providing an interface to it for UML processes to use.
211 For more information, see
212 <http://user-mode-linux.sourceforge.net/iomem.html>.
214 If you'd like to be able to provide a simulated IO port space for
215 User-Mode Linux processes, say Y. If unsure, say N.
218 tristate "Loopback device support"
220 Saying Y here will allow you to use a regular file as a block
221 device; you can then create a file system on that block device and
222 mount it just as you would mount other block devices such as hard
223 drive partitions, CD-ROM drives or floppy drives. The loop devices
224 are block special device files with major number 7 and typically
225 called /dev/loop0, /dev/loop1 etc.
227 This is useful if you want to check an ISO 9660 file system before
228 burning the CD, or if you want to use floppy images without first
229 writing them to floppy. Furthermore, some Linux distributions avoid
230 the need for a dedicated Linux partition by keeping their complete
231 root file system inside a DOS FAT file using this loop device
234 To use the loop device, you need the losetup utility, found in the
235 util-linux package, see
236 <ftp://ftp.kernel.org/pub/linux/utils/util-linux/>.
238 The loop device driver can also be used to "hide" a file system in
239 a disk partition, floppy, or regular file, either using encryption
240 (scrambling the data) or steganography (hiding the data in the low
241 bits of, say, a sound file). This is also safe if the file resides
242 on a remote file server.
244 There are several ways of encrypting disks. Some of these require
245 kernel patches. The vanilla kernel offers the cryptoloop option
246 and a Device Mapper target (which is superior, as it supports all
247 file systems). If you want to use the cryptoloop, say Y to both
248 LOOP and CRYPTOLOOP, and make sure you have a recent (version 2.12
249 or later) version of util-linux. Additionally, be aware that
250 the cryptoloop is not safe for storing journaled filesystems.
252 Note that this loop device has nothing to do with the loopback
253 device used for network connections from the machine to itself.
255 To compile this driver as a module, choose M here: the
256 module will be called loop.
258 Most users will answer N here.
260 config BLK_DEV_CRYPTOLOOP
261 tristate "Cryptoloop Support"
264 depends on BLK_DEV_LOOP
266 Say Y here if you want to be able to use the ciphers that are
267 provided by the CryptoAPI as loop transformation. This might be
268 used as hard disk encryption.
270 WARNING: This device is not safe for journaled file systems like
271 ext3 or Reiserfs. Please use the Device Mapper crypto module
272 instead, which can be configured to be on-disk compatible with the
276 tristate "Network block device support"
279 Saying Y here will allow your computer to be a client for network
280 block devices, i.e. it will be able to use block devices exported by
281 servers (mount file systems on them etc.). Communication between
282 client and server works over TCP/IP networking, but to the client
283 program this is hidden: it looks like a regular local file access to
284 a block device special file such as /dev/nd0.
286 Network block devices also allows you to run a block-device in
287 userland (making server and client physically the same computer,
288 communicating using the loopback network device).
290 Read <file:Documentation/nbd.txt> for more information, especially
291 about where to find the server code, which runs in user space and
292 does not need special kernel support.
294 Note that this has nothing to do with the network file systems NFS
295 or Coda; you can say N here even if you intend to use NFS or Coda.
297 To compile this driver as a module, choose M here: the
298 module will be called nbd.
303 tristate "Promise SATA SX8 support"
306 Saying Y or M here will enable support for the
307 Promise SATA SX8 controllers.
309 Use devices /dev/sx8/$N and /dev/sx8/$Np$M.
312 tristate "Low Performance USB Block driver"
315 This driver supports certain USB attached storage devices
318 If you enable this driver, it is recommended to avoid conflicts
319 with usb-storage by enabling USB_LIBUSUAL.
324 tristate "RAM disk support"
326 Saying Y here will allow you to use a portion of your RAM memory as
327 a block device, so that you can make file systems on it, read and
328 write to it and do all the other things that you can do with normal
329 block devices (such as hard drives). It is usually used to load and
330 store a copy of a minimal root file system off of a floppy into RAM
331 during the initial install of Linux.
333 Note that the kernel command line option "ramdisk=XX" is now
334 obsolete. For details, read <file:Documentation/ramdisk.txt>.
336 To compile this driver as a module, choose M here: the
337 module will be called rd.
339 Most normal users won't need the RAM disk functionality, and can
342 config BLK_DEV_RAM_COUNT
343 int "Default number of RAM disks"
345 depends on BLK_DEV_RAM
347 The default value is 16 RAM disks. Change this if you know what
348 are doing. If you boot from a filesystem that needs to be extracted
349 in memory, you will need at least one RAM disk (e.g. root on cramfs).
351 config BLK_DEV_RAM_SIZE
352 int "Default RAM disk size (kbytes)"
353 depends on BLK_DEV_RAM
356 The default value is 4096 kilobytes. Only change this if you know
357 what are you doing. If you are using IBM S/390, then set this to
360 config BLK_DEV_RAM_BLOCKSIZE
361 int "Default RAM disk block size (bytes)"
362 depends on BLK_DEV_RAM
365 The default value is 1024 bytes. PAGE_SIZE is a much more
366 efficient choice however. The default is kept to ensure initrd
367 setups function - apparently needed by the rd_load_image routine
368 that supposes the filesystem in the image uses a 1024 blocksize.
371 tristate "Packet writing on CD/DVD media"
374 If you have a CDROM/DVD drive that supports packet writing, say
375 Y to include support. It should work with any MMC/Mt Fuji
376 compliant ATAPI or SCSI drive, which is just about any newer
379 Currently only writing to CD-RW, DVD-RW, DVD+RW and DVDRAM discs
381 DVD-RW disks must be in restricted overwrite mode.
383 See the file <file:Documentation/cdrom/packet-writing.txt>
384 for further information on the use of this driver.
386 To compile this driver as a module, choose M here: the
387 module will be called pktcdvd.
389 config CDROM_PKTCDVD_BUFFERS
390 int "Free buffers for data gathering"
391 depends on CDROM_PKTCDVD
394 This controls the maximum number of active concurrent packets. More
395 concurrent packets can increase write performance, but also require
396 more memory. Each concurrent packet will require approximately 64Kb
397 of non-swappable kernel memory, memory which will be allocated when
398 a disc is opened for writing.
400 config CDROM_PKTCDVD_WCACHE
401 bool "Enable write caching (EXPERIMENTAL)"
402 depends on CDROM_PKTCDVD && EXPERIMENTAL
404 If enabled, write caching will be set for the CD-R/W device. For now
405 this option is dangerous unless the CD-RW media is known good, as we
406 don't do deferred write error handling yet.
409 tristate "ATA over Ethernet support"
412 This driver provides Support for ATA over Ethernet block
413 devices like the Coraid EtherDrive (R) Storage Blade.
416 tristate "Sun Virtual Disk Client support"
419 Support for virtual disk devices as a client under Sun
422 source "drivers/s390/block/Kconfig"
425 tristate "Xilinx SystemACE support"
428 Include support for the Xilinx SystemACE CompactFlash interface
430 config XEN_BLKDEV_FRONTEND
431 tristate "Xen virtual block device support"
435 This driver implements the front-end of the Xen virtual
436 block device driver. It communicates with a back-end driver
437 in another domain which drives the actual block device.