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3menu "Memory Technology Devices (MTD)"
4
5config MTD
6 tristate "Memory Technology Device (MTD) support"
7 help
8 Memory Technology Devices are flash, RAM and similar chips, often
9 used for solid state file systems on embedded devices. This option
10 will provide the generic support for MTD drivers to register
11 themselves with the kernel and for potential users of MTD devices
12 to enumerate the devices which are present and obtain a handle on
13 them. It will also allow you to select individual drivers for
14 particular hardware and users of MTD devices. If unsure, say N.
15
16config MTD_DEBUG
17 bool "Debugging"
18 depends on MTD
19 help
20 This turns on low-level debugging for the entire MTD sub-system.
21 Normally, you should say 'N'.
22
23config MTD_DEBUG_VERBOSE
24 int "Debugging verbosity (0 = quiet, 3 = noisy)"
25 depends on MTD_DEBUG
26 default "0"
27 help
28 Determines the verbosity level of the MTD debugging messages.
29
30config MTD_CONCAT
31 tristate "MTD concatenating support"
32 depends on MTD
33 help
34 Support for concatenating several MTD devices into a single
35 (virtual) one. This allows you to have -for example- a JFFS(2)
36 file system spanning multiple physical flash chips. If unsure,
37 say 'Y'.
38
39config MTD_PARTITIONS
40 bool "MTD partitioning support"
41 depends on MTD
42 help
43 If you have a device which needs to divide its flash chip(s) up
44 into multiple 'partitions', each of which appears to the user as
45 a separate MTD device, you require this option to be enabled. If
46 unsure, say 'Y'.
47
48 Note, however, that you don't need this option for the DiskOnChip
49 devices. Partitioning on NFTL 'devices' is a different - that's the
50 'normal' form of partitioning used on a block device.
51
52config MTD_REDBOOT_PARTS
53 tristate "RedBoot partition table parsing"
54 depends on MTD_PARTITIONS
55 ---help---
56 RedBoot is a ROM monitor and bootloader which deals with multiple
57 'images' in flash devices by putting a table one of the erase
58 blocks on the device, similar to a partition table, which gives
59 the offsets, lengths and names of all the images stored in the
60 flash.
61
62 If you need code which can detect and parse this table, and register
63 MTD 'partitions' corresponding to each image in the table, enable
64 this option.
65
66 You will still need the parsing functions to be called by the driver
67 for your particular device. It won't happen automatically. The
68 SA1100 map driver (CONFIG_MTD_SA1100) has an option for this, for
69 example.
70
71config MTD_REDBOOT_DIRECTORY_BLOCK
72 int "Location of RedBoot partition table"
73 depends on MTD_REDBOOT_PARTS
74 default "-1"
75 ---help---
76 This option is the Linux counterpart to the
77 CYGNUM_REDBOOT_FIS_DIRECTORY_BLOCK RedBoot compile time
78 option.
79
80 The option specifies which Flash sectors holds the RedBoot
81 partition table. A zero or positive value gives an absolete
82 erase block number. A negative value specifies a number of
83 sectors before the end of the device.
84
85 For example "2" means block number 2, "-1" means the last
86 block and "-2" means the penultimate block.
87
88config MTD_REDBOOT_PARTS_UNALLOCATED
89 bool " Include unallocated flash regions"
90 depends on MTD_REDBOOT_PARTS
91 help
92 If you need to register each unallocated flash region as a MTD
93 'partition', enable this option.
94
95config MTD_REDBOOT_PARTS_READONLY
96 bool " Force read-only for RedBoot system images"
97 depends on MTD_REDBOOT_PARTS
98 help
99 If you need to force read-only for 'RedBoot', 'RedBoot Config' and
100 'FIS directory' images, enable this option.
101
102config MTD_CMDLINE_PARTS
103 bool "Command line partition table parsing"
104 depends on MTD_PARTITIONS = "y"
105 ---help---
106 Allow generic configuration of the MTD paritition tables via the kernel
107 command line. Multiple flash resources are supported for hardware where
108 different kinds of flash memory are available.
109
110 You will still need the parsing functions to be called by the driver
111 for your particular device. It won't happen automatically. The
112 SA1100 map driver (CONFIG_MTD_SA1100) has an option for this, for
113 example.
114
115 The format for the command line is as follows:
116
117 mtdparts=<mtddef>[;<mtddef]
118 <mtddef> := <mtd-id>:<partdef>[,<partdef>]
119 <partdef> := <size>[@offset][<name>][ro]
120 <mtd-id> := unique id used in mapping driver/device
121 <size> := standard linux memsize OR "-" to denote all
122 remaining space
123 <name> := (NAME)
124
125 Due to the way Linux handles the command line, no spaces are
126 allowed in the partition definition, including mtd id's and partition
127 names.
128
129 Examples:
130
131 1 flash resource (mtd-id "sa1100"), with 1 single writable partition:
132 mtdparts=sa1100:-
133
134 Same flash, but 2 named partitions, the first one being read-only:
135 mtdparts=sa1100:256k(ARMboot)ro,-(root)
136
137 If unsure, say 'N'.
138
139config MTD_AFS_PARTS
140 tristate "ARM Firmware Suite partition parsing"
141 depends on ARM && MTD_PARTITIONS
142 ---help---
143 The ARM Firmware Suite allows the user to divide flash devices into
144 multiple 'images'. Each such image has a header containing its name
145 and offset/size etc.
146
147 If you need code which can detect and parse these tables, and
148 register MTD 'partitions' corresponding to each image detected,
149 enable this option.
150
151 You will still need the parsing functions to be called by the driver
152 for your particular device. It won't happen automatically. The
153 'armflash' map driver (CONFIG_MTD_ARMFLASH) does this, for example.
154
155comment "User Modules And Translation Layers"
156 depends on MTD
157
158config MTD_CHAR
159 tristate "Direct char device access to MTD devices"
160 depends on MTD
161 help
162 This provides a character device for each MTD device present in
163 the system, allowing the user to read and write directly to the
164 memory chips, and also use ioctl() to obtain information about
165 the device, or to erase parts of it.
166
167config MTD_BLOCK
168 tristate "Caching block device access to MTD devices"
169 depends on MTD
170 ---help---
171 Although most flash chips have an erase size too large to be useful
172 as block devices, it is possible to use MTD devices which are based
173 on RAM chips in this manner. This block device is a user of MTD
174 devices performing that function.
175
176 At the moment, it is also required for the Journalling Flash File
177 System(s) to obtain a handle on the MTD device when it's mounted
178 (although JFFS and JFFS2 don't actually use any of the functionality
179 of the mtdblock device).
180
181 Later, it may be extended to perform read/erase/modify/write cycles
182 on flash chips to emulate a smaller block size. Needless to say,
183 this is very unsafe, but could be useful for file systems which are
184 almost never written to.
185
186 You do not need this option for use with the DiskOnChip devices. For
187 those, enable NFTL support (CONFIG_NFTL) instead.
188
189config MTD_BLOCK_RO
190 tristate "Readonly block device access to MTD devices"
191 depends on MTD_BLOCK!=y && MTD
192 help
193 This allows you to mount read-only file systems (such as cramfs)
194 from an MTD device, without the overhead (and danger) of the caching
195 driver.
196
197 You do not need this option for use with the DiskOnChip devices. For
198 those, enable NFTL support (CONFIG_NFTL) instead.
199
200config FTL
201 tristate "FTL (Flash Translation Layer) support"
202 depends on MTD
203 ---help---
204 This provides support for the original Flash Translation Layer which
205 is part of the PCMCIA specification. It uses a kind of pseudo-
206 file system on a flash device to emulate a block device with
207 512-byte sectors, on top of which you put a 'normal' file system.
208
209 You may find that the algorithms used in this code are patented
210 unless you live in the Free World where software patents aren't
211 legal - in the USA you are only permitted to use this on PCMCIA
212 hardware, although under the terms of the GPL you're obviously
213 permitted to copy, modify and distribute the code as you wish. Just
214 not use it.
215
216config NFTL
217 tristate "NFTL (NAND Flash Translation Layer) support"
218 depends on MTD
219 ---help---
220 This provides support for the NAND Flash Translation Layer which is
221 used on M-Systems' DiskOnChip devices. It uses a kind of pseudo-
222 file system on a flash device to emulate a block device with
223 512-byte sectors, on top of which you put a 'normal' file system.
224
225 You may find that the algorithms used in this code are patented
226 unless you live in the Free World where software patents aren't
227 legal - in the USA you are only permitted to use this on DiskOnChip
228 hardware, although under the terms of the GPL you're obviously
229 permitted to copy, modify and distribute the code as you wish. Just
230 not use it.
231
232config NFTL_RW
233 bool "Write support for NFTL"
234 depends on NFTL
235 help
236 Support for writing to the NAND Flash Translation Layer, as used
237 on the DiskOnChip.
238
239config INFTL
240 tristate "INFTL (Inverse NAND Flash Translation Layer) support"
241 depends on MTD
242 ---help---
243 This provides support for the Inverse NAND Flash Translation
244 Layer which is used on M-Systems' newer DiskOnChip devices. It
245 uses a kind of pseudo-file system on a flash device to emulate
246 a block device with 512-byte sectors, on top of which you put
247 a 'normal' file system.
248
249 You may find that the algorithms used in this code are patented
250 unless you live in the Free World where software patents aren't
251 legal - in the USA you are only permitted to use this on DiskOnChip
252 hardware, although under the terms of the GPL you're obviously
253 permitted to copy, modify and distribute the code as you wish. Just
254 not use it.
255
256source "drivers/mtd/chips/Kconfig"
257
258source "drivers/mtd/maps/Kconfig"
259
260source "drivers/mtd/devices/Kconfig"
261
262source "drivers/mtd/nand/Kconfig"
263
264endmenu
265