---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/floppy.txt>.
+ 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.
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_PS2
- tristate "PS/2 ESDI hard disk support"
- depends on MCA && MCA_LEGACY && BROKEN
+config BLK_DEV_SWIM
+ tristate "Support for SWIM Macintosh floppy"
+ depends on M68K && MAC
help
- Say Y here if you have a PS/2 machine with a MCA bus and an ESDI
- hard disk.
-
- To compile this driver as a module, choose M here: the
- module will be called ps2esdi.
+ 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"
It's pretty unlikely that you have one of these: say N.
+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
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/paride.txt> for more information.
+ 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
help
This is the driver for Compaq Smart Array controllers. Everyone
using these boards should say Y here. See the file
- <file:Documentation/cpqarray.txt> for the current list of boards
- supported by this driver, and for further information on the use of
- this driver.
+ <file:Documentation/blockdev/cpqarray.txt> for the current list of
+ boards supported by this driver, and for further information on the
+ use of this driver.
config BLK_CPQ_CISS_DA
tristate "Compaq Smart Array 5xxx support"
help
This is the driver for Compaq Smart Array 5xxx controllers.
Everyone using these boards should say Y here.
- See <file:Documentation/cciss.txt> for the current list of
+ 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.
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/cciss.txt> for more details.)
+ 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.
help
This driver adds support for the Mylex DAC960, AcceleRAID, and
eXtremeRAID PCI RAID controllers. See the file
- <file:Documentation/README.DAC960> for further information about
- this driver.
+ <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.
bool
default BLK_DEV_UBD
-config MMAPPER
- tristate "Example IO memory driver (BROKEN)"
- depends on UML && BROKEN
- ---help---
- The User-Mode Linux port can provide support for IO Memory
- emulation with this option. This allows a host file to be
- specified as an I/O region on the kernel command line. That file
- will be mapped into UML's kernel address space where a driver can
- locate it and do whatever it wants with the memory, including
- providing an interface to it for UML processes to use.
-
- For more information, see
- <http://user-mode-linux.sourceforge.net/iomem.html>.
-
- If you'd like to be able to provide a simulated IO port space for
- User-Mode Linux processes, say Y. If unsure, say N.
-
config BLK_DEV_LOOP
tristate "Loopback device support"
---help---
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
userland (making server and client physically the same computer,
communicating using the loopback network device).
- Read <file:Documentation/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.
+ 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.
If unsure, say N.
+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
If unsure, say N.
config BLK_DEV_RAM
- tristate "RAM disk support"
+ 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
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/ramdisk.txt>.
+ 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 rd.
The default value is 4096 kilobytes. Only change this if you know
what you are doing.
-config BLK_DEV_RAM_BLOCKSIZE
- int "Default RAM disk block size (bytes)"
+config BLK_DEV_XIP
+ bool "Support XIP filesystems on RAM block device"
depends on BLK_DEV_RAM
- default "1024"
+ default n
help
- The default value is 1024 bytes. PAGE_SIZE is a much more
- efficient choice however. The default is kept to ensure initrd
- setups function - apparently needed by the rd_load_image routine
- that supposes the filesystem in the image uses a 1024 blocksize.
+ Support XIP filesystems (such as ext2 with XIP support on) on
+ top of block ram device. This 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"
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
config XILINX_SYSACE
tristate "Xilinx SystemACE support"
- depends on 4xx
+ depends on 4xx || MICROBLAZE
help
Include support for the Xilinx SystemACE CompactFlash interface
block device driver. It communicates with a back-end driver
in another domain which drives the actual block device.
+config VIRTIO_BLK
+ tristate "Virtio block driver (EXPERIMENTAL)"
+ depends on EXPERIMENTAL && 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 || ARCH_SHARK || 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.
+
endif # BLK_DEV
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