| menuconfig MTD | |
| tristate "Memory Technology Device (MTD) support" | |
| imply NVMEM | |
| help | |
| Memory Technology Devices are flash, RAM and similar chips, often | |
| used for solid state file systems on embedded devices. This option | |
| will provide the generic support for MTD drivers to register | |
| themselves with the kernel and for potential users of MTD devices | |
| to enumerate the devices which are present and obtain a handle on | |
| them. It will also allow you to select individual drivers for | |
| particular hardware and users of MTD devices. If unsure, say N. | |
| if MTD | |
| config MTD_TESTS | |
| tristate "MTD tests support (DANGEROUS)" | |
| depends on m | |
| help | |
| This option includes various MTD tests into compilation. The tests | |
| should normally be compiled as kernel modules. The modules perform | |
| various checks and verifications when loaded. | |
| WARNING: some of the tests will ERASE entire MTD device which they | |
| test. Do not use these tests unless you really know what you do. | |
| menu "Partition parsers" | |
| source "drivers/mtd/parsers/Kconfig" | |
| endmenu | |
| comment "User Modules And Translation Layers" | |
| # | |
| # MTD block device support is select'ed if needed | |
| # | |
| config MTD_BLKDEVS | |
| tristate | |
| config MTD_BLOCK | |
| tristate "Caching block device access to MTD devices" | |
| depends on BLOCK | |
| select MTD_BLKDEVS | |
| help | |
| Although most flash chips have an erase size too large to be useful | |
| as block devices, it is possible to use MTD devices which are based | |
| on RAM chips in this manner. This block device is a user of MTD | |
| devices performing that function. | |
| Note that mounting a JFFS2 filesystem doesn't require using mtdblock. | |
| It's possible to mount a rootfs using the MTD device on the "root=" | |
| bootargs as "root=mtd2" or "root=mtd:name_of_device". | |
| Later, it may be extended to perform read/erase/modify/write cycles | |
| on flash chips to emulate a smaller block size. Needless to say, | |
| this is very unsafe, but could be useful for file systems which are | |
| almost never written to. | |
| You do not need this option for use with the DiskOnChip devices. For | |
| those, enable NFTL support (CONFIG_NFTL) instead. | |
| config MTD_BLOCK_RO | |
| tristate "Readonly block device access to MTD devices" | |
| depends on MTD_BLOCK!=y && BLOCK | |
| select MTD_BLKDEVS | |
| help | |
| This allows you to mount read-only file systems (such as cramfs) | |
| from an MTD device, without the overhead (and danger) of the caching | |
| driver. | |
| You do not need this option for use with the DiskOnChip devices. For | |
| those, enable NFTL support (CONFIG_NFTL) instead. | |
| comment "Note that in some cases UBI block is preferred. See MTD_UBI_BLOCK." | |
| depends on MTD_BLOCK || MTD_BLOCK_RO | |
| config FTL | |
| tristate "FTL (Flash Translation Layer) support" | |
| depends on BLOCK | |
| select MTD_BLKDEVS | |
| help | |
| This provides support for the original Flash Translation Layer which | |
| is part of the PCMCIA specification. It uses a kind of pseudo- | |
| file system on a flash device to emulate a block device with | |
| 512-byte sectors, on top of which you put a 'normal' file system. | |
| You may find that the algorithms used in this code are patented | |
| unless you live in the Free World where software patents aren't | |
| legal - in the USA you are only permitted to use this on PCMCIA | |
| hardware, although under the terms of the GPL you're obviously | |
| permitted to copy, modify and distribute the code as you wish. Just | |
| not use it. | |
| config NFTL | |
| tristate "NFTL (NAND Flash Translation Layer) support" | |
| depends on BLOCK | |
| select MTD_BLKDEVS | |
| help | |
| This provides support for the NAND Flash Translation Layer which is | |
| used on M-Systems' DiskOnChip devices. It uses a kind of pseudo- | |
| file system on a flash device to emulate a block device with | |
| 512-byte sectors, on top of which you put a 'normal' file system. | |
| You may find that the algorithms used in this code are patented | |
| unless you live in the Free World where software patents aren't | |
| legal - in the USA you are only permitted to use this on DiskOnChip | |
| hardware, although under the terms of the GPL you're obviously | |
| permitted to copy, modify and distribute the code as you wish. Just | |
| not use it. | |
| config NFTL_RW | |
| bool "Write support for NFTL" | |
| depends on NFTL | |
| help | |
| Support for writing to the NAND Flash Translation Layer, as used | |
| on the DiskOnChip. | |
| config INFTL | |
| tristate "INFTL (Inverse NAND Flash Translation Layer) support" | |
| depends on BLOCK | |
| select MTD_BLKDEVS | |
| help | |
| This provides support for the Inverse NAND Flash Translation | |
| Layer which is used on M-Systems' newer DiskOnChip devices. It | |
| uses a kind of pseudo-file system on a flash device to emulate | |
| a block device with 512-byte sectors, on top of which you put | |
| a 'normal' file system. | |
| You may find that the algorithms used in this code are patented | |
| unless you live in the Free World where software patents aren't | |
| legal - in the USA you are only permitted to use this on DiskOnChip | |
| hardware, although under the terms of the GPL you're obviously | |
| permitted to copy, modify and distribute the code as you wish. Just | |
| not use it. | |
| config RFD_FTL | |
| tristate "Resident Flash Disk (Flash Translation Layer) support" | |
| depends on BLOCK | |
| select MTD_BLKDEVS | |
| help | |
| This provides support for the flash translation layer known | |
| as the Resident Flash Disk (RFD), as used by the Embedded BIOS | |
| of General Software. There is a blurb at: | |
| http://www.gensw.com/pages/prod/bios/rfd.htm | |
| config SSFDC | |
| tristate "NAND SSFDC (SmartMedia) read only translation layer" | |
| depends on BLOCK | |
| select MTD_BLKDEVS | |
| help | |
| This enables read only access to SmartMedia formatted NAND | |
| flash. You can mount it with FAT file system. | |
| config SM_FTL | |
| tristate "SmartMedia/xD new translation layer" | |
| depends on BLOCK | |
| select MTD_BLKDEVS | |
| select MTD_NAND_CORE | |
| select MTD_NAND_ECC_SW_HAMMING | |
| help | |
| This enables EXPERIMENTAL R/W support for SmartMedia/xD | |
| FTL (Flash translation layer). | |
| Write support is only lightly tested, therefore this driver | |
| isn't recommended to use with valuable data (anyway if you have | |
| valuable data, do backups regardless of software/hardware you | |
| use, because you never know what will eat your data...) | |
| If you only need R/O access, you can use older R/O driver | |
| (CONFIG_SSFDC) | |
| config MTD_OOPS | |
| tristate "Log panic/oops to an MTD buffer" | |
| help | |
| This enables panic and oops messages to be logged to a circular | |
| buffer in a flash partition where it can be read back at some | |
| later point. | |
| config MTD_PSTORE | |
| tristate "Log panic/oops to an MTD buffer based on pstore" | |
| depends on PSTORE_BLK | |
| help | |
| This enables panic and oops messages to be logged to a circular | |
| buffer in a flash partition where it can be read back as files after | |
| mounting pstore filesystem. | |
| If unsure, say N. | |
| config MTD_SWAP | |
| tristate "Swap on MTD device support" | |
| depends on MTD && SWAP | |
| select MTD_BLKDEVS | |
| help | |
| Provides volatile block device driver on top of mtd partition | |
| suitable for swapping. The mapping of written blocks is not saved. | |
| The driver provides wear leveling by storing erase counter into the | |
| OOB. | |
| config MTD_PARTITIONED_MASTER | |
| bool "Retain master device when partitioned" | |
| default n | |
| depends on MTD | |
| help | |
| For historical reasons, by default, either a master is present or | |
| several partitions are present, but not both. The concern was that | |
| data listed in multiple partitions was dangerous; however, SCSI does | |
| this and it is frequently useful for applications. This config option | |
| leaves the master in even if the device is partitioned. It also makes | |
| the parent of the partition device be the master device, rather than | |
| what lies behind the master. | |
| config MTD_VIRT_CONCAT | |
| bool "Virtual concatenated MTD devices" | |
| depends on MTD_PARTITIONED_MASTER | |
| help | |
| The driver enables the creation of virtual MTD device by | |
| concatenating multiple physical MTD devices into a single | |
| entity. This allows for the creation of partitions larger than | |
| the individual physical chips, extending across chip boundaries. | |
| source "drivers/mtd/chips/Kconfig" | |
| source "drivers/mtd/maps/Kconfig" | |
| source "drivers/mtd/devices/Kconfig" | |
| source "drivers/mtd/nand/Kconfig" | |
| source "drivers/mtd/lpddr/Kconfig" | |
| source "drivers/mtd/spi-nor/Kconfig" | |
| source "drivers/mtd/ubi/Kconfig" | |
| source "drivers/mtd/hyperbus/Kconfig" | |
| endif # MTD |