1 # 2 # Block device driver configuration 3 # 4 5 menuconfig BLK_DEV 6 bool "Block devices" 7 depends on BLOCK 8 default y 9 ---help--- 10 Say Y here to get to see options for various different block device 11 drivers. This option alone does not add any kernel code. 12 13 If you say N, all options in this submenu will be skipped and disabled; 14 only do this if you know what you are doing. 15 16 if BLK_DEV 17 18 config BLK_DEV_NULL_BLK 19 tristate "Null test block driver" 20 21 config BLK_DEV_FD 22 tristate "Normal floppy disk support" 23 depends on ARCH_MAY_HAVE_PC_FDC 24 ---help--- 25 If you want to use the floppy disk drive(s) of your PC under Linux, 26 say Y. Information about this driver, especially important for IBM 27 Thinkpad users, is contained in 28 <file:Documentation/blockdev/floppy.txt>. 29 That file also contains the location of the Floppy driver FAQ as 30 well as location of the fdutils package used to configure additional 31 parameters of the driver at run time. 32 33 To compile this driver as a module, choose M here: the 34 module will be called floppy. 35 36 config AMIGA_FLOPPY 37 tristate "Amiga floppy support" 38 depends on AMIGA 39 40 config ATARI_FLOPPY 41 tristate "Atari floppy support" 42 depends on ATARI 43 44 config MAC_FLOPPY 45 tristate "Support for PowerMac floppy" 46 depends on PPC_PMAC && !PPC_PMAC64 47 help 48 If you have a SWIM-3 (Super Woz Integrated Machine 3; from Apple) 49 floppy controller, say Y here. Most commonly found in PowerMacs. 50 51 config BLK_DEV_SWIM 52 tristate "Support for SWIM Macintosh floppy" 53 depends on M68K && MAC 54 help 55 You should select this option if you want floppy support 56 and you don't have a II, IIfx, Q900, Q950 or AV series. 57 58 config AMIGA_Z2RAM 59 tristate "Amiga Zorro II ramdisk support" 60 depends on ZORRO 61 help 62 This enables support for using Chip RAM and Zorro II RAM as a 63 ramdisk or as a swap partition. Say Y if you want to include this 64 driver in the kernel. 65 66 To compile this driver as a module, choose M here: the 67 module will be called z2ram. 68 69 config GDROM 70 tristate "SEGA Dreamcast GD-ROM drive" 71 depends on SH_DREAMCAST 72 help 73 A standard SEGA Dreamcast comes with a modified CD ROM drive called a 74 "GD-ROM" by SEGA to signify it is capable of reading special disks 75 with up to 1 GB of data. This drive will also read standard CD ROM 76 disks. Select this option to access any disks in your GD ROM drive. 77 Most users will want to say "Y" here. 78 You can also build this as a module which will be called gdrom. 79 80 config PARIDE 81 tristate "Parallel port IDE device support" 82 depends on PARPORT_PC 83 ---help--- 84 There are many external CD-ROM and disk devices that connect through 85 your computer's parallel port. Most of them are actually IDE devices 86 using a parallel port IDE adapter. This option enables the PARIDE 87 subsystem which contains drivers for many of these external drives. 88 Read <file:Documentation/blockdev/paride.txt> for more information. 89 90 If you have said Y to the "Parallel-port support" configuration 91 option, you may share a single port between your printer and other 92 parallel port devices. Answer Y to build PARIDE support into your 93 kernel, or M if you would like to build it as a loadable module. If 94 your parallel port support is in a loadable module, you must build 95 PARIDE as a module. If you built PARIDE support into your kernel, 96 you may still build the individual protocol modules and high-level 97 drivers as loadable modules. If you build this support as a module, 98 it will be called paride. 99 100 To use the PARIDE support, you must say Y or M here and also to at 101 least one high-level driver (e.g. "Parallel port IDE disks", 102 "Parallel port ATAPI CD-ROMs", "Parallel port ATAPI disks" etc.) and 103 to at least one protocol driver (e.g. "ATEN EH-100 protocol", 104 "MicroSolutions backpack protocol", "DataStor Commuter protocol" 105 etc.). 106 107 source "drivers/block/paride/Kconfig" 108 109 source "drivers/block/mtip32xx/Kconfig" 110 111 source "drivers/block/zram/Kconfig" 112 113 config BLK_CPQ_CISS_DA 114 tristate "Compaq Smart Array 5xxx support" 115 depends on PCI 116 select CHECK_SIGNATURE 117 help 118 This is the driver for Compaq Smart Array 5xxx controllers. 119 Everyone using these boards should say Y here. 120 See <file:Documentation/blockdev/cciss.txt> for the current list of 121 boards supported by this driver, and for further information 122 on the use of this driver. 123 124 config CISS_SCSI_TAPE 125 bool "SCSI tape drive support for Smart Array 5xxx" 126 depends on BLK_CPQ_CISS_DA && PROC_FS 127 depends on SCSI=y || SCSI=BLK_CPQ_CISS_DA 128 help 129 When enabled (Y), this option allows SCSI tape drives and SCSI medium 130 changers (tape robots) to be accessed via a Compaq 5xxx array 131 controller. (See <file:Documentation/blockdev/cciss.txt> for more details.) 132 133 "SCSI support" and "SCSI tape support" must also be enabled for this 134 option to work. 135 136 When this option is disabled (N), the SCSI portion of the driver 137 is not compiled. 138 139 config BLK_DEV_DAC960 140 tristate "Mylex DAC960/DAC1100 PCI RAID Controller support" 141 depends on PCI 142 help 143 This driver adds support for the Mylex DAC960, AcceleRAID, and 144 eXtremeRAID PCI RAID controllers. See the file 145 <file:Documentation/blockdev/README.DAC960> for further information 146 about this driver. 147 148 To compile this driver as a module, choose M here: the 149 module will be called DAC960. 150 151 config BLK_DEV_UMEM 152 tristate "Micro Memory MM5415 Battery Backed RAM support" 153 depends on PCI 154 ---help--- 155 Saying Y here will include support for the MM5415 family of 156 battery backed (Non-volatile) RAM cards. 157 <http://www.umem.com/> 158 159 The cards appear as block devices that can be partitioned into 160 as many as 15 partitions. 161 162 To compile this driver as a module, choose M here: the 163 module will be called umem. 164 165 The umem driver has not yet been allocated a MAJOR number, so 166 one is chosen dynamically. 167 168 config BLK_DEV_UBD 169 bool "Virtual block device" 170 depends on UML 171 ---help--- 172 The User-Mode Linux port includes a driver called UBD which will let 173 you access arbitrary files on the host computer as block devices. 174 Unless you know that you do not need such virtual block devices say 175 Y here. 176 177 config BLK_DEV_UBD_SYNC 178 bool "Always do synchronous disk IO for UBD" 179 depends on BLK_DEV_UBD 180 ---help--- 181 Writes to the virtual block device are not immediately written to the 182 host's disk; this may cause problems if, for example, the User-Mode 183 Linux 'Virtual Machine' uses a journalling filesystem and the host 184 computer crashes. 185 186 Synchronous operation (i.e. always writing data to the host's disk 187 immediately) is configurable on a per-UBD basis by using a special 188 kernel command line option. Alternatively, you can say Y here to 189 turn on synchronous operation by default for all block devices. 190 191 If you're running a journalling file system (like reiserfs, for 192 example) in your virtual machine, you will want to say Y here. If 193 you care for the safety of the data in your virtual machine, Y is a 194 wise choice too. In all other cases (for example, if you're just 195 playing around with User-Mode Linux) you can choose N. 196 197 config BLK_DEV_COW_COMMON 198 bool 199 default BLK_DEV_UBD 200 201 config BLK_DEV_LOOP 202 tristate "Loopback device support" 203 ---help--- 204 Saying Y here will allow you to use a regular file as a block 205 device; you can then create a file system on that block device and 206 mount it just as you would mount other block devices such as hard 207 drive partitions, CD-ROM drives or floppy drives. The loop devices 208 are block special device files with major number 7 and typically 209 called /dev/loop0, /dev/loop1 etc. 210 211 This is useful if you want to check an ISO 9660 file system before 212 burning the CD, or if you want to use floppy images without first 213 writing them to floppy. Furthermore, some Linux distributions avoid 214 the need for a dedicated Linux partition by keeping their complete 215 root file system inside a DOS FAT file using this loop device 216 driver. 217 218 To use the loop device, you need the losetup utility, found in the 219 util-linux package, see 220 <ftp://ftp.kernel.org/pub/linux/utils/util-linux/>. 221 222 The loop device driver can also be used to "hide" a file system in 223 a disk partition, floppy, or regular file, either using encryption 224 (scrambling the data) or steganography (hiding the data in the low 225 bits of, say, a sound file). This is also safe if the file resides 226 on a remote file server. 227 228 There are several ways of encrypting disks. Some of these require 229 kernel patches. The vanilla kernel offers the cryptoloop option 230 and a Device Mapper target (which is superior, as it supports all 231 file systems). If you want to use the cryptoloop, say Y to both 232 LOOP and CRYPTOLOOP, and make sure you have a recent (version 2.12 233 or later) version of util-linux. Additionally, be aware that 234 the cryptoloop is not safe for storing journaled filesystems. 235 236 Note that this loop device has nothing to do with the loopback 237 device used for network connections from the machine to itself. 238 239 To compile this driver as a module, choose M here: the 240 module will be called loop. 241 242 Most users will answer N here. 243 244 config BLK_DEV_LOOP_MIN_COUNT 245 int "Number of loop devices to pre-create at init time" 246 depends on BLK_DEV_LOOP 247 default 8 248 help 249 Static number of loop devices to be unconditionally pre-created 250 at init time. 251 252 This default value can be overwritten on the kernel command 253 line or with module-parameter loop.max_loop. 254 255 The historic default is 8. If a late 2011 version of losetup(8) 256 is used, it can be set to 0, since needed loop devices can be 257 dynamically allocated with the /dev/loop-control interface. 258 259 config BLK_DEV_CRYPTOLOOP 260 tristate "Cryptoloop Support" 261 select CRYPTO 262 select CRYPTO_CBC 263 depends on BLK_DEV_LOOP 264 ---help--- 265 Say Y here if you want to be able to use the ciphers that are 266 provided by the CryptoAPI as loop transformation. This might be 267 used as hard disk encryption. 268 269 WARNING: This device is not safe for journaled file systems like 270 ext3 or Reiserfs. Please use the Device Mapper crypto module 271 instead, which can be configured to be on-disk compatible with the 272 cryptoloop device. 273 274 source "drivers/block/drbd/Kconfig" 275 276 config BLK_DEV_NBD 277 tristate "Network block device support" 278 depends on NET 279 ---help--- 280 Saying Y here will allow your computer to be a client for network 281 block devices, i.e. it will be able to use block devices exported by 282 servers (mount file systems on them etc.). Communication between 283 client and server works over TCP/IP networking, but to the client 284 program this is hidden: it looks like a regular local file access to 285 a block device special file such as /dev/nd0. 286 287 Network block devices also allows you to run a block-device in 288 userland (making server and client physically the same computer, 289 communicating using the loopback network device). 290 291 Read <file:Documentation/blockdev/nbd.txt> for more information, 292 especially about where to find the server code, which runs in user 293 space and does not need special kernel support. 294 295 Note that this has nothing to do with the network file systems NFS 296 or Coda; you can say N here even if you intend to use NFS or Coda. 297 298 To compile this driver as a module, choose M here: the 299 module will be called nbd. 300 301 If unsure, say N. 302 303 config BLK_DEV_SKD 304 tristate "STEC S1120 Block Driver" 305 depends on PCI 306 depends on 64BIT 307 ---help--- 308 Saying Y or M here will enable support for the 309 STEC, Inc. S1120 PCIe SSD. 310 311 Use device /dev/skd$N amd /dev/skd$Np$M. 312 313 config BLK_DEV_OSD 314 tristate "OSD object-as-blkdev support" 315 depends on SCSI_OSD_ULD 316 ---help--- 317 Saying Y or M here will allow the exporting of a single SCSI 318 OSD (object-based storage) object as a Linux block device. 319 320 For example, if you create a 2G object on an OSD device, 321 you can then use this module to present that 2G object as 322 a Linux block device. 323 324 To compile this driver as a module, choose M here: the 325 module will be called osdblk. 326 327 If unsure, say N. 328 329 config BLK_DEV_SX8 330 tristate "Promise SATA SX8 support" 331 depends on PCI 332 ---help--- 333 Saying Y or M here will enable support for the 334 Promise SATA SX8 controllers. 335 336 Use devices /dev/sx8/$N and /dev/sx8/$Np$M. 337 338 config BLK_DEV_RAM 339 tristate "RAM block device support" 340 ---help--- 341 Saying Y here will allow you to use a portion of your RAM memory as 342 a block device, so that you can make file systems on it, read and 343 write to it and do all the other things that you can do with normal 344 block devices (such as hard drives). It is usually used to load and 345 store a copy of a minimal root file system off of a floppy into RAM 346 during the initial install of Linux. 347 348 Note that the kernel command line option "ramdisk=XX" is now obsolete. 349 For details, read <file:Documentation/blockdev/ramdisk.txt>. 350 351 To compile this driver as a module, choose M here: the 352 module will be called brd. An alias "rd" has been defined 353 for historical reasons. 354 355 Most normal users won't need the RAM disk functionality, and can 356 thus say N here. 357 358 config BLK_DEV_RAM_COUNT 359 int "Default number of RAM disks" 360 default "16" 361 depends on BLK_DEV_RAM 362 help 363 The default value is 16 RAM disks. Change this if you know what you 364 are doing. If you boot from a filesystem that needs to be extracted 365 in memory, you will need at least one RAM disk (e.g. root on cramfs). 366 367 config BLK_DEV_RAM_SIZE 368 int "Default RAM disk size (kbytes)" 369 depends on BLK_DEV_RAM 370 default "4096" 371 help 372 The default value is 4096 kilobytes. Only change this if you know 373 what you are doing. 374 375 config BLK_DEV_RAM_DAX 376 bool "Support Direct Access (DAX) to RAM block devices" 377 depends on BLK_DEV_RAM && FS_DAX 378 default n 379 help 380 Support filesystems using DAX to access RAM block devices. This 381 avoids double-buffering data in the page cache before copying it 382 to the block device. Answering Y will slightly enlarge the kernel, 383 and will prevent RAM block device backing store memory from being 384 allocated from highmem (only a problem for highmem systems). 385 386 config CDROM_PKTCDVD 387 tristate "Packet writing on CD/DVD media" 388 depends on !UML 389 help 390 If you have a CDROM/DVD drive that supports packet writing, say 391 Y to include support. It should work with any MMC/Mt Fuji 392 compliant ATAPI or SCSI drive, which is just about any newer 393 DVD/CD writer. 394 395 Currently only writing to CD-RW, DVD-RW, DVD+RW and DVDRAM discs 396 is possible. 397 DVD-RW disks must be in restricted overwrite mode. 398 399 See the file <file:Documentation/cdrom/packet-writing.txt> 400 for further information on the use of this driver. 401 402 To compile this driver as a module, choose M here: the 403 module will be called pktcdvd. 404 405 config CDROM_PKTCDVD_BUFFERS 406 int "Free buffers for data gathering" 407 depends on CDROM_PKTCDVD 408 default "8" 409 help 410 This controls the maximum number of active concurrent packets. More 411 concurrent packets can increase write performance, but also require 412 more memory. Each concurrent packet will require approximately 64Kb 413 of non-swappable kernel memory, memory which will be allocated when 414 a disc is opened for writing. 415 416 config CDROM_PKTCDVD_WCACHE 417 bool "Enable write caching" 418 depends on CDROM_PKTCDVD 419 help 420 If enabled, write caching will be set for the CD-R/W device. For now 421 this option is dangerous unless the CD-RW media is known good, as we 422 don't do deferred write error handling yet. 423 424 config ATA_OVER_ETH 425 tristate "ATA over Ethernet support" 426 depends on NET 427 help 428 This driver provides Support for ATA over Ethernet block 429 devices like the Coraid EtherDrive (R) Storage Blade. 430 431 config MG_DISK 432 tristate "mGine mflash, gflash support" 433 depends on ARM && GPIOLIB 434 help 435 mGine mFlash(gFlash) block device driver 436 437 config MG_DISK_RES 438 int "Size of reserved area before MBR" 439 depends on MG_DISK 440 default 0 441 help 442 Define size of reserved area that usually used for boot. Unit is KB. 443 All of the block device operation will be taken this value as start 444 offset 445 Examples: 446 1024 => 1 MB 447 448 config SUNVDC 449 tristate "Sun Virtual Disk Client support" 450 depends on SUN_LDOMS 451 help 452 Support for virtual disk devices as a client under Sun 453 Logical Domains. 454 455 source "drivers/s390/block/Kconfig" 456 457 config XILINX_SYSACE 458 tristate "Xilinx SystemACE support" 459 depends on 4xx || MICROBLAZE 460 help 461 Include support for the Xilinx SystemACE CompactFlash interface 462 463 config XEN_BLKDEV_FRONTEND 464 tristate "Xen virtual block device support" 465 depends on XEN 466 default y 467 select XEN_XENBUS_FRONTEND 468 help 469 This driver implements the front-end of the Xen virtual 470 block device driver. It communicates with a back-end driver 471 in another domain which drives the actual block device. 472 473 config XEN_BLKDEV_BACKEND 474 tristate "Xen block-device backend driver" 475 depends on XEN_BACKEND 476 help 477 The block-device backend driver allows the kernel to export its 478 block devices to other guests via a high-performance shared-memory 479 interface. 480 481 The corresponding Linux frontend driver is enabled by the 482 CONFIG_XEN_BLKDEV_FRONTEND configuration option. 483 484 The backend driver attaches itself to a any block device specified 485 in the XenBus configuration. There are no limits to what the block 486 device as long as it has a major and minor. 487 488 If you are compiling a kernel to run in a Xen block backend driver 489 domain (often this is domain 0) you should say Y here. To 490 compile this driver as a module, chose M here: the module 491 will be called xen-blkback. 492 493 494 config VIRTIO_BLK 495 tristate "Virtio block driver" 496 depends on VIRTIO 497 ---help--- 498 This is the virtual block driver for virtio. It can be used with 499 lguest or QEMU based VMMs (like KVM or Xen). Say Y or M. 500 501 config BLK_DEV_HD 502 bool "Very old hard disk (MFM/RLL/IDE) driver" 503 depends on HAVE_IDE 504 depends on !ARM || ARCH_RPC || BROKEN 505 help 506 This is a very old hard disk driver that lacks the enhanced 507 functionality of the newer ones. 508 509 It is required for systems with ancient MFM/RLL/ESDI drives. 510 511 If unsure, say N. 512 513 config BLK_DEV_RBD 514 tristate "Rados block device (RBD)" 515 depends on INET && BLOCK 516 select CEPH_LIB 517 select LIBCRC32C 518 select CRYPTO_AES 519 select CRYPTO 520 default n 521 help 522 Say Y here if you want include the Rados block device, which stripes 523 a block device over objects stored in the Ceph distributed object 524 store. 525 526 More information at http://ceph.newdream.net/. 527 528 If unsure, say N. 529 530 config BLK_DEV_RSXX 531 tristate "IBM Flash Adapter 900GB Full Height PCIe Device Driver" 532 depends on PCI 533 help 534 Device driver for IBM's high speed PCIe SSD 535 storage device: Flash Adapter 900GB Full Height. 536 537 To compile this driver as a module, choose M here: the 538 module will be called rsxx. 539 540 endif # BLK_DEV 541