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Jan Engelhardtec98c682007-04-19 16:21:41 -05001menuconfig MTD
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -07002 tristate "Memory Technology Device (MTD) support"
Martin Schwidefskye25df122007-05-10 15:45:57 +02003 depends on HAS_IOMEM
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -07004 help
5 Memory Technology Devices are flash, RAM and similar chips, often
6 used for solid state file systems on embedded devices. This option
7 will provide the generic support for MTD drivers to register
8 themselves with the kernel and for potential users of MTD devices
9 to enumerate the devices which are present and obtain a handle on
Thomas Gleixner97894cd2005-11-07 11:15:26 +000010 them. It will also allow you to select individual drivers for
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -070011 particular hardware and users of MTD devices. If unsure, say N.
12
Jan Engelhardtec98c682007-04-19 16:21:41 -050013if MTD
14
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -070015config MTD_DEBUG
16 bool "Debugging"
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -070017 help
18 This turns on low-level debugging for the entire MTD sub-system.
19 Normally, you should say 'N'.
20
21config MTD_DEBUG_VERBOSE
22 int "Debugging verbosity (0 = quiet, 3 = noisy)"
23 depends on MTD_DEBUG
24 default "0"
25 help
26 Determines the verbosity level of the MTD debugging messages.
27
Mike Frysinger80f53da2009-06-13 06:15:18 -040028config MTD_TESTS
29 tristate "MTD tests support"
30 depends on m
31 help
32 This option includes various MTD tests into compilation. The tests
33 should normally be compiled as kernel modules. The modules perform
34 various checks and verifications when loaded.
35
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -070036config MTD_PARTITIONS
37 bool "MTD partitioning support"
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -070038 help
39 If you have a device which needs to divide its flash chip(s) up
40 into multiple 'partitions', each of which appears to the user as
41 a separate MTD device, you require this option to be enabled. If
42 unsure, say 'Y'.
43
44 Note, however, that you don't need this option for the DiskOnChip
45 devices. Partitioning on NFTL 'devices' is a different - that's the
46 'normal' form of partitioning used on a block device.
47
Grant Likelyb7b6e082010-10-30 07:35:02 +010048if MTD_PARTITIONS
49
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -070050config MTD_REDBOOT_PARTS
51 tristate "RedBoot partition table parsing"
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -070052 ---help---
53 RedBoot is a ROM monitor and bootloader which deals with multiple
54 'images' in flash devices by putting a table one of the erase
55 blocks on the device, similar to a partition table, which gives
56 the offsets, lengths and names of all the images stored in the
57 flash.
58
59 If you need code which can detect and parse this table, and register
60 MTD 'partitions' corresponding to each image in the table, enable
Thomas Gleixner97894cd2005-11-07 11:15:26 +000061 this option.
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -070062
63 You will still need the parsing functions to be called by the driver
Thomas Gleixner97894cd2005-11-07 11:15:26 +000064 for your particular device. It won't happen automatically. The
65 SA1100 map driver (CONFIG_MTD_SA1100) has an option for this, for
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -070066 example.
67
Grant Likelyb7b6e082010-10-30 07:35:02 +010068if MTD_REDBOOT_PARTS
69
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -070070config MTD_REDBOOT_DIRECTORY_BLOCK
71 int "Location of RedBoot partition table"
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -070072 default "-1"
73 ---help---
74 This option is the Linux counterpart to the
75 CYGNUM_REDBOOT_FIS_DIRECTORY_BLOCK RedBoot compile time
76 option.
77
78 The option specifies which Flash sectors holds the RedBoot
Egry Gábor4992a9e2006-05-12 17:35:02 +010079 partition table. A zero or positive value gives an absolute
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -070080 erase block number. A negative value specifies a number of
81 sectors before the end of the device.
Thomas Gleixner97894cd2005-11-07 11:15:26 +000082
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -070083 For example "2" means block number 2, "-1" means the last
84 block and "-2" means the penultimate block.
Thomas Gleixner97894cd2005-11-07 11:15:26 +000085
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -070086config MTD_REDBOOT_PARTS_UNALLOCATED
Roman Zippele55a3e82006-06-08 22:12:49 -070087 bool "Include unallocated flash regions"
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -070088 help
89 If you need to register each unallocated flash region as a MTD
90 'partition', enable this option.
91
92config MTD_REDBOOT_PARTS_READONLY
Roman Zippele55a3e82006-06-08 22:12:49 -070093 bool "Force read-only for RedBoot system images"
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -070094 help
95 If you need to force read-only for 'RedBoot', 'RedBoot Config' and
96 'FIS directory' images, enable this option.
97
Grant Likelyb7b6e082010-10-30 07:35:02 +010098endif # MTD_REDBOOT_PARTS
99
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -0700100config MTD_CMDLINE_PARTS
101 bool "Command line partition table parsing"
David Woodhouse892e4fb2006-09-23 10:24:36 +0100102 depends on MTD_PARTITIONS = "y" && MTD = "y"
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -0700103 ---help---
Egry Gábor4992a9e2006-05-12 17:35:02 +0100104 Allow generic configuration of the MTD partition tables via the kernel
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -0700105 command line. Multiple flash resources are supported for hardware where
Thomas Gleixner97894cd2005-11-07 11:15:26 +0000106 different kinds of flash memory are available.
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -0700107
108 You will still need the parsing functions to be called by the driver
Thomas Gleixner97894cd2005-11-07 11:15:26 +0000109 for your particular device. It won't happen automatically. The
110 SA1100 map driver (CONFIG_MTD_SA1100) has an option for this, for
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -0700111 example.
112
113 The format for the command line is as follows:
114
115 mtdparts=<mtddef>[;<mtddef]
116 <mtddef> := <mtd-id>:<partdef>[,<partdef>]
117 <partdef> := <size>[@offset][<name>][ro]
118 <mtd-id> := unique id used in mapping driver/device
Thomas Gleixner97894cd2005-11-07 11:15:26 +0000119 <size> := standard linux memsize OR "-" to denote all
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -0700120 remaining space
121 <name> := (NAME)
122
Thomas Gleixner97894cd2005-11-07 11:15:26 +0000123 Due to the way Linux handles the command line, no spaces are
124 allowed in the partition definition, including mtd id's and partition
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -0700125 names.
126
127 Examples:
128
129 1 flash resource (mtd-id "sa1100"), with 1 single writable partition:
130 mtdparts=sa1100:-
131
132 Same flash, but 2 named partitions, the first one being read-only:
133 mtdparts=sa1100:256k(ARMboot)ro,-(root)
134
135 If unsure, say 'N'.
136
137config MTD_AFS_PARTS
138 tristate "ARM Firmware Suite partition parsing"
Grant Likelyb7b6e082010-10-30 07:35:02 +0100139 depends on ARM
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -0700140 ---help---
141 The ARM Firmware Suite allows the user to divide flash devices into
142 multiple 'images'. Each such image has a header containing its name
143 and offset/size etc.
144
145 If you need code which can detect and parse these tables, and
146 register MTD 'partitions' corresponding to each image detected,
147 enable this option.
148
149 You will still need the parsing functions to be called by the driver
150 for your particular device. It won't happen automatically. The
Paulius Zaleckas0b1b51f2009-04-06 16:10:54 +0300151 'armflash' map driver (CONFIG_MTD_ARM_INTEGRATOR) does this, for
152 example.
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -0700153
Scott Wood9a310d22008-01-15 17:54:43 -0600154config MTD_OF_PARTS
Grant Likelyb7b6e082010-10-30 07:35:02 +0100155 def_bool y
156 depends on OF
Scott Wood9a310d22008-01-15 17:54:43 -0600157 help
158 This provides a partition parsing function which derives
159 the partition map from the children of the flash node,
160 as described in Documentation/powerpc/booting-without-of.txt.
161
Matteo Crocef0797882008-03-12 02:25:06 +0100162config MTD_AR7_PARTS
163 tristate "TI AR7 partitioning support"
Matteo Crocef0797882008-03-12 02:25:06 +0100164 ---help---
165 TI AR7 partitioning support
166
Grant Likelyb7b6e082010-10-30 07:35:02 +0100167endif # MTD_PARTITIONS
168
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -0700169comment "User Modules And Translation Layers"
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -0700170
171config MTD_CHAR
172 tristate "Direct char device access to MTD devices"
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -0700173 help
174 This provides a character device for each MTD device present in
175 the system, allowing the user to read and write directly to the
176 memory chips, and also use ioctl() to obtain information about
177 the device, or to erase parts of it.
178
David Brownell34a82442008-07-30 12:35:05 -0700179config HAVE_MTD_OTP
180 bool
181 help
182 Enable access to OTP regions using MTD_CHAR.
183
Josh Boyerf6a7ecb2006-11-20 20:15:36 -0600184config MTD_BLKDEVS
185 tristate "Common interface to block layer for MTD 'translation layers'"
Jan Engelhardtec98c682007-04-19 16:21:41 -0500186 depends on BLOCK
Josh Boyerf6a7ecb2006-11-20 20:15:36 -0600187 default n
188
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -0700189config MTD_BLOCK
190 tristate "Caching block device access to MTD devices"
Jan Engelhardtec98c682007-04-19 16:21:41 -0500191 depends on BLOCK
Josh Boyerf6a7ecb2006-11-20 20:15:36 -0600192 select MTD_BLKDEVS
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -0700193 ---help---
194 Although most flash chips have an erase size too large to be useful
195 as block devices, it is possible to use MTD devices which are based
196 on RAM chips in this manner. This block device is a user of MTD
197 devices performing that function.
198
199 At the moment, it is also required for the Journalling Flash File
200 System(s) to obtain a handle on the MTD device when it's mounted
201 (although JFFS and JFFS2 don't actually use any of the functionality
202 of the mtdblock device).
203
204 Later, it may be extended to perform read/erase/modify/write cycles
205 on flash chips to emulate a smaller block size. Needless to say,
206 this is very unsafe, but could be useful for file systems which are
207 almost never written to.
208
209 You do not need this option for use with the DiskOnChip devices. For
210 those, enable NFTL support (CONFIG_NFTL) instead.
211
212config MTD_BLOCK_RO
213 tristate "Readonly block device access to MTD devices"
Jan Engelhardtec98c682007-04-19 16:21:41 -0500214 depends on MTD_BLOCK!=y && BLOCK
Josh Boyerf6a7ecb2006-11-20 20:15:36 -0600215 select MTD_BLKDEVS
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -0700216 help
217 This allows you to mount read-only file systems (such as cramfs)
218 from an MTD device, without the overhead (and danger) of the caching
219 driver.
220
221 You do not need this option for use with the DiskOnChip devices. For
222 those, enable NFTL support (CONFIG_NFTL) instead.
223
224config FTL
225 tristate "FTL (Flash Translation Layer) support"
Jan Engelhardtec98c682007-04-19 16:21:41 -0500226 depends on BLOCK
Josh Boyerf6a7ecb2006-11-20 20:15:36 -0600227 select MTD_BLKDEVS
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -0700228 ---help---
229 This provides support for the original Flash Translation Layer which
230 is part of the PCMCIA specification. It uses a kind of pseudo-
231 file system on a flash device to emulate a block device with
232 512-byte sectors, on top of which you put a 'normal' file system.
233
234 You may find that the algorithms used in this code are patented
235 unless you live in the Free World where software patents aren't
236 legal - in the USA you are only permitted to use this on PCMCIA
237 hardware, although under the terms of the GPL you're obviously
238 permitted to copy, modify and distribute the code as you wish. Just
239 not use it.
240
241config NFTL
242 tristate "NFTL (NAND Flash Translation Layer) support"
Jan Engelhardtec98c682007-04-19 16:21:41 -0500243 depends on BLOCK
Josh Boyerf6a7ecb2006-11-20 20:15:36 -0600244 select MTD_BLKDEVS
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -0700245 ---help---
246 This provides support for the NAND Flash Translation Layer which is
247 used on M-Systems' DiskOnChip devices. It uses a kind of pseudo-
248 file system on a flash device to emulate a block device with
249 512-byte sectors, on top of which you put a 'normal' file system.
250
251 You may find that the algorithms used in this code are patented
252 unless you live in the Free World where software patents aren't
253 legal - in the USA you are only permitted to use this on DiskOnChip
254 hardware, although under the terms of the GPL you're obviously
255 permitted to copy, modify and distribute the code as you wish. Just
256 not use it.
257
258config NFTL_RW
259 bool "Write support for NFTL"
260 depends on NFTL
261 help
262 Support for writing to the NAND Flash Translation Layer, as used
263 on the DiskOnChip.
264
265config INFTL
266 tristate "INFTL (Inverse NAND Flash Translation Layer) support"
Jan Engelhardtec98c682007-04-19 16:21:41 -0500267 depends on BLOCK
Josh Boyerf6a7ecb2006-11-20 20:15:36 -0600268 select MTD_BLKDEVS
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -0700269 ---help---
Thomas Gleixner97894cd2005-11-07 11:15:26 +0000270 This provides support for the Inverse NAND Flash Translation
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -0700271 Layer which is used on M-Systems' newer DiskOnChip devices. It
272 uses a kind of pseudo-file system on a flash device to emulate
273 a block device with 512-byte sectors, on top of which you put
274 a 'normal' file system.
275
276 You may find that the algorithms used in this code are patented
277 unless you live in the Free World where software patents aren't
278 legal - in the USA you are only permitted to use this on DiskOnChip
279 hardware, although under the terms of the GPL you're obviously
280 permitted to copy, modify and distribute the code as you wish. Just
281 not use it.
282
Sean Younge27a9962005-06-16 09:49:33 +0100283config RFD_FTL
284 tristate "Resident Flash Disk (Flash Translation Layer) support"
Jan Engelhardtec98c682007-04-19 16:21:41 -0500285 depends on BLOCK
Josh Boyerf6a7ecb2006-11-20 20:15:36 -0600286 select MTD_BLKDEVS
Sean Younge27a9962005-06-16 09:49:33 +0100287 ---help---
Thomas Gleixner97894cd2005-11-07 11:15:26 +0000288 This provides support for the flash translation layer known
289 as the Resident Flash Disk (RFD), as used by the Embedded BIOS
Kyungmin Parkcd5f6342005-07-11 11:41:53 +0100290 of General Software. There is a blurb at:
291
292 http://www.gensw.com/pages/prod/bios/rfd.htm
Sean Younge27a9962005-06-16 09:49:33 +0100293
Claudio Lanconelli51197ab2006-09-22 11:01:37 +0100294config SSFDC
David Woodhouse892e4fb2006-09-23 10:24:36 +0100295 tristate "NAND SSFDC (SmartMedia) read only translation layer"
Jan Engelhardtec98c682007-04-19 16:21:41 -0500296 depends on BLOCK
Josh Boyerf6a7ecb2006-11-20 20:15:36 -0600297 select MTD_BLKDEVS
Claudio Lanconelli51197ab2006-09-22 11:01:37 +0100298 help
299 This enables read only access to SmartMedia formatted NAND
300 flash. You can mount it with FAT file system.
301
Maxim Levitsky7d17c022010-02-22 20:39:41 +0200302
303config SM_FTL
304 tristate "SmartMedia/xD new translation layer"
Maxim Levitskye5f710c2010-03-19 17:22:54 +0200305 depends on EXPERIMENTAL && BLOCK
Maxim Levitsky7d17c022010-02-22 20:39:41 +0200306 select MTD_BLKDEVS
Maxim Levitskye5f710c2010-03-19 17:22:54 +0200307 select MTD_NAND_ECC
Maxim Levitsky7d17c022010-02-22 20:39:41 +0200308 help
Maxim Levitsky6f923552010-07-28 18:53:17 +0300309 This enables EXPERIMENTAL R/W support for SmartMedia/xD
David Woodhouse7de6f792010-03-08 18:45:00 -0800310 FTL (Flash translation layer).
Maxim Levitsky6f923552010-07-28 18:53:17 +0300311 Write support is only lightly tested, therefore this driver
312 isn't recommended to use with valuable data (anyway if you have
313 valuable data, do backups regardless of software/hardware you
314 use, because you never know what will eat your data...)
315 If you only need R/O access, you can use older R/O driver
316 (CONFIG_SSFDC)
Maxim Levitsky7d17c022010-02-22 20:39:41 +0200317
Richard Purdie4b23aff2007-05-29 13:31:42 +0100318config MTD_OOPS
319 tristate "Log panic/oops to an MTD buffer"
Richard Purdie4b23aff2007-05-29 13:31:42 +0100320 help
321 This enables panic and oops messages to be logged to a circular
322 buffer in a flash partition where it can be read back at some
323 later point.
324
Peter Korsgaard256331d2007-11-06 11:55:00 +0100325 To use, add console=ttyMTDx to the kernel command line,
326 where x is the MTD device number to use.
327
Jarkko Lavinena3215902011-02-14 16:16:11 +0200328config MTD_SWAP
329 tristate "Swap on MTD device support"
330 depends on MTD && SWAP
331 select MTD_BLKDEVS
332 help
333 Provides volatile block device driver on top of mtd partition
334 suitable for swapping. The mapping of written blocks is not saved.
335 The driver provides wear leveling by storing erase counter into the
336 OOB.
337
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -0700338source "drivers/mtd/chips/Kconfig"
339
340source "drivers/mtd/maps/Kconfig"
341
342source "drivers/mtd/devices/Kconfig"
343
344source "drivers/mtd/nand/Kconfig"
345
Kyungmin Parkcd5f6342005-07-11 11:41:53 +0100346source "drivers/mtd/onenand/Kconfig"
347
Alexey Korolev60f26522008-12-16 18:24:14 +0000348source "drivers/mtd/lpddr/Kconfig"
349
Artem B. Bityutskiy801c1352006-06-27 12:22:22 +0400350source "drivers/mtd/ubi/Kconfig"
351
Jan Engelhardtec98c682007-04-19 16:21:41 -0500352endif # MTD