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b2441318 | 1 | # SPDX-License-Identifier: GPL-2.0 |
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2 | # |
3 | # Block device driver configuration | |
4 | # | |
5 | ||
fd11d171 JE |
6 | menuconfig BLK_DEV |
7 | bool "Block devices" | |
8 | depends on BLOCK | |
9 | default y | |
a7f7f624 | 10 | help |
06bfb7eb JE |
11 | Say Y here to get to see options for various different block device |
12 | drivers. This option alone does not add any kernel code. | |
13 | ||
14 | If you say N, all options in this submenu will be skipped and disabled; | |
15 | only do this if you know what you are doing. | |
9361401e | 16 | |
fd11d171 | 17 | if BLK_DEV |
1da177e4 | 18 | |
eebf34a8 | 19 | source "drivers/block/null_blk/Kconfig" |
f2298c04 | 20 | |
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21 | config BLK_DEV_FD |
22 | tristate "Normal floppy disk support" | |
a08b6b79 | 23 | depends on ARCH_MAY_HAVE_PC_FDC |
a7f7f624 | 24 | help |
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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 | |
31c00fc1 | 27 | Thinkpad users, is contained in |
e7751617 | 28 | <file:Documentation/admin-guide/blockdev/floppy.rst>. |
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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 | ||
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36 | config BLK_DEV_FD_RAWCMD |
37 | bool "Support for raw floppy disk commands (DEPRECATED)" | |
38 | depends on BLK_DEV_FD | |
39 | help | |
40 | If you want to use actual physical floppies and expect to do | |
41 | special low-level hardware accesses to them (access and use | |
42 | non-standard formats, for example), then enable this. | |
43 | ||
44 | Note that the code enabled by this option is rarely used and | |
45 | might be unstable or insecure, and distros should not enable it. | |
46 | ||
47 | Note: FDRAWCMD is deprecated and will be removed from the kernel | |
48 | in the near future. | |
49 | ||
50 | If unsure, say N. | |
51 | ||
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52 | config AMIGA_FLOPPY |
53 | tristate "Amiga floppy support" | |
54 | depends on AMIGA | |
55 | ||
56 | config ATARI_FLOPPY | |
57 | tristate "Atari floppy support" | |
58 | depends on ATARI | |
59 | ||
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60 | config MAC_FLOPPY |
61 | tristate "Support for PowerMac floppy" | |
62 | depends on PPC_PMAC && !PPC_PMAC64 | |
63 | help | |
64 | If you have a SWIM-3 (Super Woz Integrated Machine 3; from Apple) | |
65 | floppy controller, say Y here. Most commonly found in PowerMacs. | |
66 | ||
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67 | config BLK_DEV_SWIM |
68 | tristate "Support for SWIM Macintosh floppy" | |
4c6e5bc8 | 69 | depends on M68K && MAC && !HIGHMEM |
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70 | help |
71 | You should select this option if you want floppy support | |
72 | and you don't have a II, IIfx, Q900, Q950 or AV series. | |
73 | ||
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74 | config AMIGA_Z2RAM |
75 | tristate "Amiga Zorro II ramdisk support" | |
76 | depends on ZORRO | |
77 | help | |
78 | This enables support for using Chip RAM and Zorro II RAM as a | |
79 | ramdisk or as a swap partition. Say Y if you want to include this | |
80 | driver in the kernel. | |
81 | ||
82 | To compile this driver as a module, choose M here: the | |
83 | module will be called z2ram. | |
84 | ||
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85 | config N64CART |
86 | bool "N64 cart support" | |
87 | depends on MACH_NINTENDO64 | |
88 | help | |
89 | Support for the N64 cart. | |
90 | ||
2a750166 | 91 | config CDROM |
a116895f | 92 | tristate |
2a750166 | 93 | |
2395e463 RD |
94 | config GDROM |
95 | tristate "SEGA Dreamcast GD-ROM drive" | |
96 | depends on SH_DREAMCAST | |
2a750166 | 97 | select CDROM |
2395e463 RD |
98 | help |
99 | A standard SEGA Dreamcast comes with a modified CD ROM drive called a | |
100 | "GD-ROM" by SEGA to signify it is capable of reading special disks | |
101 | with up to 1 GB of data. This drive will also read standard CD ROM | |
102 | disks. Select this option to access any disks in your GD ROM drive. | |
103 | Most users will want to say "Y" here. | |
104 | You can also build this as a module which will be called gdrom. | |
105 | ||
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106 | config PARIDE |
107 | tristate "Parallel port IDE device support" | |
6a19b41b | 108 | depends on PARPORT_PC |
a7f7f624 | 109 | help |
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110 | There are many external CD-ROM and disk devices that connect through |
111 | your computer's parallel port. Most of them are actually IDE devices | |
112 | using a parallel port IDE adapter. This option enables the PARIDE | |
113 | subsystem which contains drivers for many of these external drives. | |
e7751617 | 114 | Read <file:Documentation/admin-guide/blockdev/paride.rst> for more information. |
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115 | |
116 | If you have said Y to the "Parallel-port support" configuration | |
117 | option, you may share a single port between your printer and other | |
118 | parallel port devices. Answer Y to build PARIDE support into your | |
119 | kernel, or M if you would like to build it as a loadable module. If | |
120 | your parallel port support is in a loadable module, you must build | |
121 | PARIDE as a module. If you built PARIDE support into your kernel, | |
122 | you may still build the individual protocol modules and high-level | |
123 | drivers as loadable modules. If you build this support as a module, | |
124 | it will be called paride. | |
125 | ||
126 | To use the PARIDE support, you must say Y or M here and also to at | |
127 | least one high-level driver (e.g. "Parallel port IDE disks", | |
128 | "Parallel port ATAPI CD-ROMs", "Parallel port ATAPI disks" etc.) and | |
129 | to at least one protocol driver (e.g. "ATEN EH-100 protocol", | |
130 | "MicroSolutions backpack protocol", "DataStor Commuter protocol" | |
131 | etc.). | |
132 | ||
133 | source "drivers/block/paride/Kconfig" | |
134 | ||
88523a61 SB |
135 | source "drivers/block/mtip32xx/Kconfig" |
136 | ||
cd67e10a MK |
137 | source "drivers/block/zram/Kconfig" |
138 | ||
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139 | config BLK_DEV_UBD |
140 | bool "Virtual block device" | |
141 | depends on UML | |
a7f7f624 | 142 | help |
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143 | The User-Mode Linux port includes a driver called UBD which will let |
144 | you access arbitrary files on the host computer as block devices. | |
145 | Unless you know that you do not need such virtual block devices say | |
146 | Y here. | |
147 | ||
148 | config BLK_DEV_UBD_SYNC | |
149 | bool "Always do synchronous disk IO for UBD" | |
150 | depends on BLK_DEV_UBD | |
a7f7f624 | 151 | help |
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152 | Writes to the virtual block device are not immediately written to the |
153 | host's disk; this may cause problems if, for example, the User-Mode | |
154 | Linux 'Virtual Machine' uses a journalling filesystem and the host | |
155 | computer crashes. | |
156 | ||
157 | Synchronous operation (i.e. always writing data to the host's disk | |
158 | immediately) is configurable on a per-UBD basis by using a special | |
159 | kernel command line option. Alternatively, you can say Y here to | |
160 | turn on synchronous operation by default for all block devices. | |
161 | ||
162 | If you're running a journalling file system (like reiserfs, for | |
163 | example) in your virtual machine, you will want to say Y here. If | |
164 | you care for the safety of the data in your virtual machine, Y is a | |
165 | wise choice too. In all other cases (for example, if you're just | |
166 | playing around with User-Mode Linux) you can choose N. | |
167 | ||
168 | config BLK_DEV_COW_COMMON | |
169 | bool | |
170 | default BLK_DEV_UBD | |
171 | ||
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172 | config BLK_DEV_LOOP |
173 | tristate "Loopback device support" | |
a7f7f624 | 174 | help |
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175 | Saying Y here will allow you to use a regular file as a block |
176 | device; you can then create a file system on that block device and | |
177 | mount it just as you would mount other block devices such as hard | |
178 | drive partitions, CD-ROM drives or floppy drives. The loop devices | |
179 | are block special device files with major number 7 and typically | |
180 | called /dev/loop0, /dev/loop1 etc. | |
181 | ||
182 | This is useful if you want to check an ISO 9660 file system before | |
183 | burning the CD, or if you want to use floppy images without first | |
184 | writing them to floppy. Furthermore, some Linux distributions avoid | |
185 | the need for a dedicated Linux partition by keeping their complete | |
186 | root file system inside a DOS FAT file using this loop device | |
187 | driver. | |
188 | ||
189 | To use the loop device, you need the losetup utility, found in the | |
190 | util-linux package, see | |
4f6cce39 | 191 | <https://www.kernel.org/pub/linux/utils/util-linux/>. |
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192 | |
193 | The loop device driver can also be used to "hide" a file system in | |
194 | a disk partition, floppy, or regular file, either using encryption | |
195 | (scrambling the data) or steganography (hiding the data in the low | |
196 | bits of, say, a sound file). This is also safe if the file resides | |
197 | on a remote file server. | |
198 | ||
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199 | Note that this loop device has nothing to do with the loopback |
200 | device used for network connections from the machine to itself. | |
201 | ||
202 | To compile this driver as a module, choose M here: the | |
203 | module will be called loop. | |
204 | ||
205 | Most users will answer N here. | |
206 | ||
d134b00b KS |
207 | config BLK_DEV_LOOP_MIN_COUNT |
208 | int "Number of loop devices to pre-create at init time" | |
209 | depends on BLK_DEV_LOOP | |
210 | default 8 | |
211 | help | |
212 | Static number of loop devices to be unconditionally pre-created | |
213 | at init time. | |
214 | ||
215 | This default value can be overwritten on the kernel command | |
216 | line or with module-parameter loop.max_loop. | |
217 | ||
218 | The historic default is 8. If a late 2011 version of losetup(8) | |
219 | is used, it can be set to 0, since needed loop devices can be | |
220 | dynamically allocated with the /dev/loop-control interface. | |
221 | ||
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222 | source "drivers/block/drbd/Kconfig" |
223 | ||
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224 | config BLK_DEV_NBD |
225 | tristate "Network block device support" | |
226 | depends on NET | |
a7f7f624 | 227 | help |
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228 | Saying Y here will allow your computer to be a client for network |
229 | block devices, i.e. it will be able to use block devices exported by | |
230 | servers (mount file systems on them etc.). Communication between | |
231 | client and server works over TCP/IP networking, but to the client | |
232 | program this is hidden: it looks like a regular local file access to | |
233 | a block device special file such as /dev/nd0. | |
234 | ||
235 | Network block devices also allows you to run a block-device in | |
236 | userland (making server and client physically the same computer, | |
237 | communicating using the loopback network device). | |
238 | ||
e7751617 | 239 | Read <file:Documentation/admin-guide/blockdev/nbd.rst> for more information, |
31c00fc1 RD |
240 | especially about where to find the server code, which runs in user |
241 | space and does not need special kernel support. | |
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242 | |
243 | Note that this has nothing to do with the network file systems NFS | |
244 | or Coda; you can say N here even if you intend to use NFS or Coda. | |
245 | ||
246 | To compile this driver as a module, choose M here: the | |
247 | module will be called nbd. | |
248 | ||
249 | If unsure, say N. | |
250 | ||
1da177e4 | 251 | config BLK_DEV_RAM |
9db5579b | 252 | tristate "RAM block device support" |
a7f7f624 | 253 | help |
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254 | Saying Y here will allow you to use a portion of your RAM memory as |
255 | a block device, so that you can make file systems on it, read and | |
256 | write to it and do all the other things that you can do with normal | |
257 | block devices (such as hard drives). It is usually used to load and | |
258 | store a copy of a minimal root file system off of a floppy into RAM | |
259 | during the initial install of Linux. | |
260 | ||
31c00fc1 | 261 | Note that the kernel command line option "ramdisk=XX" is now obsolete. |
e7751617 | 262 | For details, read <file:Documentation/admin-guide/blockdev/ramdisk.rst>. |
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263 | |
264 | To compile this driver as a module, choose M here: the | |
a3b25d9b FF |
265 | module will be called brd. An alias "rd" has been defined |
266 | for historical reasons. | |
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267 | |
268 | Most normal users won't need the RAM disk functionality, and can | |
269 | thus say N here. | |
270 | ||
271 | config BLK_DEV_RAM_COUNT | |
a687fb18 | 272 | int "Default number of RAM disks" |
1da177e4 | 273 | default "16" |
a687fb18 | 274 | depends on BLK_DEV_RAM |
1da177e4 | 275 | help |
2e977c85 | 276 | The default value is 16 RAM disks. Change this if you know what you |
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277 | are doing. If you boot from a filesystem that needs to be extracted |
278 | in memory, you will need at least one RAM disk (e.g. root on cramfs). | |
279 | ||
280 | config BLK_DEV_RAM_SIZE | |
281 | int "Default RAM disk size (kbytes)" | |
282 | depends on BLK_DEV_RAM | |
283 | default "4096" | |
284 | help | |
285 | The default value is 4096 kilobytes. Only change this if you know | |
2e977c85 | 286 | what you are doing. |
1da177e4 | 287 | |
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288 | config CDROM_PKTCDVD |
289 | tristate "Packet writing on CD/DVD media (DEPRECATED)" | |
290 | depends on !UML | |
291 | depends on SCSI | |
292 | select CDROM | |
293 | help | |
294 | Note: This driver is deprecated and will be removed from the | |
295 | kernel in the near future! | |
296 | ||
297 | If you have a CDROM/DVD drive that supports packet writing, say | |
298 | Y to include support. It should work with any MMC/Mt Fuji | |
299 | compliant ATAPI or SCSI drive, which is just about any newer | |
300 | DVD/CD writer. | |
301 | ||
302 | Currently only writing to CD-RW, DVD-RW, DVD+RW and DVDRAM discs | |
303 | is possible. | |
304 | DVD-RW disks must be in restricted overwrite mode. | |
305 | ||
306 | See the file <file:Documentation/cdrom/packet-writing.rst> | |
307 | for further information on the use of this driver. | |
308 | ||
309 | To compile this driver as a module, choose M here: the | |
310 | module will be called pktcdvd. | |
311 | ||
312 | config CDROM_PKTCDVD_BUFFERS | |
313 | int "Free buffers for data gathering" | |
314 | depends on CDROM_PKTCDVD | |
315 | default "8" | |
316 | help | |
317 | This controls the maximum number of active concurrent packets. More | |
318 | concurrent packets can increase write performance, but also require | |
319 | more memory. Each concurrent packet will require approximately 64Kb | |
320 | of non-swappable kernel memory, memory which will be allocated when | |
321 | a disc is opened for writing. | |
322 | ||
323 | config CDROM_PKTCDVD_WCACHE | |
324 | bool "Enable write caching" | |
325 | depends on CDROM_PKTCDVD | |
326 | help | |
327 | If enabled, write caching will be set for the CD-R/W device. For now | |
328 | this option is dangerous unless the CD-RW media is known good, as we | |
329 | don't do deferred write error handling yet. | |
330 | ||
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331 | config ATA_OVER_ETH |
332 | tristate "ATA over Ethernet support" | |
333 | depends on NET | |
334 | help | |
335 | This driver provides Support for ATA over Ethernet block | |
336 | devices like the Coraid EtherDrive (R) Storage Blade. | |
337 | ||
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338 | config SUNVDC |
339 | tristate "Sun Virtual Disk Client support" | |
340 | depends on SUN_LDOMS | |
341 | help | |
342 | Support for virtual disk devices as a client under Sun | |
343 | Logical Domains. | |
344 | ||
61d48c2c | 345 | source "drivers/s390/block/Kconfig" |
74489a91 | 346 | |
9f27ee59 JF |
347 | config XEN_BLKDEV_FRONTEND |
348 | tristate "Xen virtual block device support" | |
349 | depends on XEN | |
350 | default y | |
2de06cc1 | 351 | select XEN_XENBUS_FRONTEND |
9f27ee59 JF |
352 | help |
353 | This driver implements the front-end of the Xen virtual | |
354 | block device driver. It communicates with a back-end driver | |
355 | in another domain which drives the actual block device. | |
356 | ||
dfc07b13 | 357 | config XEN_BLKDEV_BACKEND |
ea5e1161 | 358 | tristate "Xen block-device backend driver" |
dfc07b13 KRW |
359 | depends on XEN_BACKEND |
360 | help | |
361 | The block-device backend driver allows the kernel to export its | |
362 | block devices to other guests via a high-performance shared-memory | |
363 | interface. | |
364 | ||
a4c34858 KRW |
365 | The corresponding Linux frontend driver is enabled by the |
366 | CONFIG_XEN_BLKDEV_FRONTEND configuration option. | |
367 | ||
368 | The backend driver attaches itself to a any block device specified | |
369 | in the XenBus configuration. There are no limits to what the block | |
370 | device as long as it has a major and minor. | |
371 | ||
372 | If you are compiling a kernel to run in a Xen block backend driver | |
373 | domain (often this is domain 0) you should say Y here. To | |
374 | compile this driver as a module, chose M here: the module | |
375 | will be called xen-blkback. | |
376 | ||
377 | ||
e467cde2 | 378 | config VIRTIO_BLK |
b8977285 KC |
379 | tristate "Virtio block driver" |
380 | depends on VIRTIO | |
02746e26 | 381 | select SG_POOL |
a7f7f624 | 382 | help |
0ad07ec1 | 383 | This is the virtual block driver for virtio. It can be used with |
ecda85e7 | 384 | QEMU based VMMs (like KVM or Xen). Say Y or M. |
e467cde2 | 385 | |
602adf40 YS |
386 | config BLK_DEV_RBD |
387 | tristate "Rados block device (RBD)" | |
b8977285 | 388 | depends on INET && BLOCK |
602adf40 YS |
389 | select CEPH_LIB |
390 | select LIBCRC32C | |
391 | select CRYPTO_AES | |
392 | select CRYPTO | |
602adf40 YS |
393 | help |
394 | Say Y here if you want include the Rados block device, which stripes | |
395 | a block device over objects stored in the Ceph distributed object | |
396 | store. | |
397 | ||
398 | More information at http://ceph.newdream.net/. | |
399 | ||
400 | If unsure, say N. | |
401 | ||
71f28f31 ML |
402 | config BLK_DEV_UBLK |
403 | tristate "Userspace block driver (Experimental)" | |
404 | select IO_URING | |
405 | help | |
406 | io_uring based userspace block driver. Together with ublk server, ublk | |
407 | has been working well, but interface with userspace or command data | |
408 | definition isn't finalized yet, and might change according to future | |
409 | requirement, so mark is as experimental now. | |
410 | ||
d57c2c6c ML |
411 | Say Y if you want to get better performance because task_work_add() |
412 | can be used in IO path for replacing io_uring cmd, which will become | |
413 | shared between IO tasks and ubq daemon, meantime task_work_add() can | |
414 | can handle batch more effectively, but task_work_add() isn't exported | |
415 | for module, so ublk has to be built to kernel. | |
416 | ||
bc018853 JW |
417 | source "drivers/block/rnbd/Kconfig" |
418 | ||
fd11d171 | 419 | endif # BLK_DEV |