1 # $Id: Kconfig,v 1.11 2005/11/07 11:14:19 gleixner Exp $
4 tristate "Memory Technology Device (MTD) support"
6 Memory Technology Devices are flash, RAM and similar chips, often
7 used for solid state file systems on embedded devices. This option
8 will provide the generic support for MTD drivers to register
9 themselves with the kernel and for potential users of MTD devices
10 to enumerate the devices which are present and obtain a handle on
11 them. It will also allow you to select individual drivers for
12 particular hardware and users of MTD devices. If unsure, say N.
19 This turns on low-level debugging for the entire MTD sub-system.
20 Normally, you should say 'N'.
22 config MTD_DEBUG_VERBOSE
23 int "Debugging verbosity (0 = quiet, 3 = noisy)"
27 Determines the verbosity level of the MTD debugging messages.
30 tristate "MTD concatenating support"
32 Support for concatenating several MTD devices into a single
33 (virtual) one. This allows you to have -for example- a JFFS(2)
34 file system spanning multiple physical flash chips. If unsure,
38 bool "MTD partitioning support"
40 If you have a device which needs to divide its flash chip(s) up
41 into multiple 'partitions', each of which appears to the user as
42 a separate MTD device, you require this option to be enabled. If
45 Note, however, that you don't need this option for the DiskOnChip
46 devices. Partitioning on NFTL 'devices' is a different - that's the
47 'normal' form of partitioning used on a block device.
49 config MTD_REDBOOT_PARTS
50 tristate "RedBoot partition table parsing"
51 depends on MTD_PARTITIONS
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
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
63 You will still need the parsing functions to be called by the driver
64 for your particular device. It won't happen automatically. The
65 SA1100 map driver (CONFIG_MTD_SA1100) has an option for this, for
68 config MTD_REDBOOT_DIRECTORY_BLOCK
69 int "Location of RedBoot partition table"
70 depends on MTD_REDBOOT_PARTS
73 This option is the Linux counterpart to the
74 CYGNUM_REDBOOT_FIS_DIRECTORY_BLOCK RedBoot compile time
77 The option specifies which Flash sectors holds the RedBoot
78 partition table. A zero or positive value gives an absolute
79 erase block number. A negative value specifies a number of
80 sectors before the end of the device.
82 For example "2" means block number 2, "-1" means the last
83 block and "-2" means the penultimate block.
85 config MTD_REDBOOT_PARTS_UNALLOCATED
86 bool "Include unallocated flash regions"
87 depends on MTD_REDBOOT_PARTS
89 If you need to register each unallocated flash region as a MTD
90 'partition', enable this option.
92 config MTD_REDBOOT_PARTS_READONLY
93 bool "Force read-only for RedBoot system images"
94 depends on MTD_REDBOOT_PARTS
96 If you need to force read-only for 'RedBoot', 'RedBoot Config' and
97 'FIS directory' images, enable this option.
99 config MTD_CMDLINE_PARTS
100 bool "Command line partition table parsing"
101 depends on MTD_PARTITIONS = "y" && MTD = "y"
103 Allow generic configuration of the MTD partition tables via the kernel
104 command line. Multiple flash resources are supported for hardware where
105 different kinds of flash memory are available.
107 You will still need the parsing functions to be called by the driver
108 for your particular device. It won't happen automatically. The
109 SA1100 map driver (CONFIG_MTD_SA1100) has an option for this, for
112 The format for the command line is as follows:
114 mtdparts=<mtddef>[;<mtddef]
115 <mtddef> := <mtd-id>:<partdef>[,<partdef>]
116 <partdef> := <size>[@offset][<name>][ro]
117 <mtd-id> := unique id used in mapping driver/device
118 <size> := standard linux memsize OR "-" to denote all
122 Due to the way Linux handles the command line, no spaces are
123 allowed in the partition definition, including mtd id's and partition
128 1 flash resource (mtd-id "sa1100"), with 1 single writable partition:
131 Same flash, but 2 named partitions, the first one being read-only:
132 mtdparts=sa1100:256k(ARMboot)ro,-(root)
137 tristate "ARM Firmware Suite partition parsing"
138 depends on ARM && MTD_PARTITIONS
140 The ARM Firmware Suite allows the user to divide flash devices into
141 multiple 'images'. Each such image has a header containing its name
144 If you need code which can detect and parse these tables, and
145 register MTD 'partitions' corresponding to each image detected,
148 You will still need the parsing functions to be called by the driver
149 for your particular device. It won't happen automatically. The
150 'armflash' map driver (CONFIG_MTD_ARMFLASH) does this, for example.
152 comment "User Modules And Translation Layers"
155 tristate "Direct char device access to MTD devices"
157 This provides a character device for each MTD device present in
158 the system, allowing the user to read and write directly to the
159 memory chips, and also use ioctl() to obtain information about
160 the device, or to erase parts of it.
163 tristate "Common interface to block layer for MTD 'translation layers'"
168 tristate "Caching block device access to MTD devices"
172 Although most flash chips have an erase size too large to be useful
173 as block devices, it is possible to use MTD devices which are based
174 on RAM chips in this manner. This block device is a user of MTD
175 devices performing that function.
177 At the moment, it is also required for the Journalling Flash File
178 System(s) to obtain a handle on the MTD device when it's mounted
179 (although JFFS and JFFS2 don't actually use any of the functionality
180 of the mtdblock device).
182 Later, it may be extended to perform read/erase/modify/write cycles
183 on flash chips to emulate a smaller block size. Needless to say,
184 this is very unsafe, but could be useful for file systems which are
185 almost never written to.
187 You do not need this option for use with the DiskOnChip devices. For
188 those, enable NFTL support (CONFIG_NFTL) instead.
191 tristate "Readonly block device access to MTD devices"
192 depends on MTD_BLOCK!=y && BLOCK
195 This allows you to mount read-only file systems (such as cramfs)
196 from an MTD device, without the overhead (and danger) of the caching
199 You do not need this option for use with the DiskOnChip devices. For
200 those, enable NFTL support (CONFIG_NFTL) instead.
203 tristate "FTL (Flash Translation Layer) support"
207 This provides support for the original Flash Translation Layer which
208 is part of the PCMCIA specification. It uses a kind of pseudo-
209 file system on a flash device to emulate a block device with
210 512-byte sectors, on top of which you put a 'normal' file system.
212 You may find that the algorithms used in this code are patented
213 unless you live in the Free World where software patents aren't
214 legal - in the USA you are only permitted to use this on PCMCIA
215 hardware, although under the terms of the GPL you're obviously
216 permitted to copy, modify and distribute the code as you wish. Just
220 tristate "NFTL (NAND Flash Translation Layer) support"
224 This provides support for the NAND Flash Translation Layer which is
225 used on M-Systems' DiskOnChip devices. It uses a kind of pseudo-
226 file system on a flash device to emulate a block device with
227 512-byte sectors, on top of which you put a 'normal' file system.
229 You may find that the algorithms used in this code are patented
230 unless you live in the Free World where software patents aren't
231 legal - in the USA you are only permitted to use this on DiskOnChip
232 hardware, although under the terms of the GPL you're obviously
233 permitted to copy, modify and distribute the code as you wish. Just
237 bool "Write support for NFTL"
240 Support for writing to the NAND Flash Translation Layer, as used
244 tristate "INFTL (Inverse NAND Flash Translation Layer) support"
248 This provides support for the Inverse NAND Flash Translation
249 Layer which is used on M-Systems' newer DiskOnChip devices. It
250 uses a kind of pseudo-file system on a flash device to emulate
251 a block device with 512-byte sectors, on top of which you put
252 a 'normal' file system.
254 You may find that the algorithms used in this code are patented
255 unless you live in the Free World where software patents aren't
256 legal - in the USA you are only permitted to use this on DiskOnChip
257 hardware, although under the terms of the GPL you're obviously
258 permitted to copy, modify and distribute the code as you wish. Just
262 tristate "Resident Flash Disk (Flash Translation Layer) support"
266 This provides support for the flash translation layer known
267 as the Resident Flash Disk (RFD), as used by the Embedded BIOS
268 of General Software. There is a blurb at:
270 http://www.gensw.com/pages/prod/bios/rfd.htm
273 tristate "NAND SSFDC (SmartMedia) read only translation layer"
277 This enables read only access to SmartMedia formatted NAND
278 flash. You can mount it with FAT file system.
280 source "drivers/mtd/chips/Kconfig"
282 source "drivers/mtd/maps/Kconfig"
284 source "drivers/mtd/devices/Kconfig"
286 source "drivers/mtd/nand/Kconfig"
288 source "drivers/mtd/onenand/Kconfig"