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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_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 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 BLK_DEV_XD
+ tristate "XT hard disk support"
+ depends on ISA && ISA_DMA_API
+ select CHECK_SIGNATURE
+ help
+ Very old 8 bit hard disk controllers used in the IBM XT computer
+ will be supported if you say Y here.
+
+ To compile this driver as a module, choose M here: the
+ module will be called xd.
+
+ It's pretty unlikely that you have one of these: say N.
+
+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.).
+
+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.ko
+
+source "drivers/block/paride/Kconfig"
+
+config BLK_CPQ_DA
+ tristate "Compaq SMART2 support"
+ depends on PCI && VIRT_TO_BUS
+ help
+ This is the driver for Compaq Smart Array controllers. Everyone
+ using these boards should say Y here. See the file
+ <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"
+ depends on PCI
+ 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 (EXPERIMENTAL)"
+ depends on PCI && EXPERIMENTAL
+ ---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_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.
+
+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_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_UB
+ tristate "Low Performance USB Block driver"
+ depends on USB
+ help
+ This driver supports certain USB attached storage devices
+ such as flash keys.
+
+ If you enable this driver, it is recommended to avoid conflicts
+ with usb-storage by enabling USB_LIBUSUAL.
+
+ If unsure, say N.
+
+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 rd.
+
+ 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_XIP
+ bool "Support XIP filesystems on RAM block device"
+ depends on BLK_DEV_RAM
+ default n
+ help
+ 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 RD_BZIP2
+ bool "Initial ramdisk compressed using bzip2"
+ default n
+ depends on BLK_DEV_INITRD=y
+ help
+ Support loading of a bzip2 encoded initial ramdisk or cpio buffer
+ If unsure, say N.
+
+config RD_LZMA
+ bool "Initial ramdisk compressed using lzma"
+ default n
+ depends on BLK_DEV_INITRD=y
+ help
+ Support loading of a lzma encoded initial ramdisk or cpio buffer
+ If unsure, say N.
+
+config RD_GZIP
+ bool "Initial ramdisk compressed using gzip"
+ default y
+ depends on BLK_DEV_INITRD=y
+ select ZLIB_INFLATE
+ help
+ Support loading of a gzip encoded initial ramdisk or cpio buffer.
+ If unsure, say Y.
+
+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 (EXPERIMENTAL)"
+ depends on CDROM_PKTCDVD && EXPERIMENTAL
+ 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 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
+ help
+ Include support for the Xilinx SystemACE CompactFlash interface
+
+config XEN_BLKDEV_FRONTEND
+ tristate "Xen virtual block device support"
+ depends on XEN
+ default y
+ 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 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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