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1menuconfig MTD
2	tristate "Memory Technology Device (MTD) support"
3	imply NVMEM
4	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
10	  them. It will also allow you to select individual drivers for
11	  particular hardware and users of MTD devices. If unsure, say N.
12
13if MTD
14
15config MTD_TESTS
16	tristate "MTD tests support (DANGEROUS)"
17	depends on m
18	help
19	  This option includes various MTD tests into compilation. The tests
20	  should normally be compiled as kernel modules. The modules perform
21	  various checks and verifications when loaded.
22
23	  WARNING: some of the tests will ERASE entire MTD device which they
24	  test. Do not use these tests unless you really know what you do.
25
26menu "Partition parsers"
27source "drivers/mtd/parsers/Kconfig"
28endmenu
29
30comment "User Modules And Translation Layers"
31
32#
33# MTD block device support is select'ed if needed
34#
35config MTD_BLKDEVS
36	tristate
37
38config MTD_BLOCK
39	tristate "Caching block device access to MTD devices"
40	depends on BLOCK
41	select MTD_BLKDEVS
42	help
43	  Although most flash chips have an erase size too large to be useful
44	  as block devices, it is possible to use MTD devices which are based
45	  on RAM chips in this manner. This block device is a user of MTD
46	  devices performing that function.
47
48	  Note that mounting a JFFS2 filesystem doesn't require using mtdblock.
49	  It's possible to mount a rootfs using the MTD device on the "root="
50	  bootargs as "root=mtd2" or "root=mtd:name_of_device".
51
52	  Later, it may be extended to perform read/erase/modify/write cycles
53	  on flash chips to emulate a smaller block size. Needless to say,
54	  this is very unsafe, but could be useful for file systems which are
55	  almost never written to.
56
57	  You do not need this option for use with the DiskOnChip devices. For
58	  those, enable NFTL support (CONFIG_NFTL) instead.
59
60config MTD_BLOCK_RO
61	tristate "Readonly block device access to MTD devices"
62	depends on MTD_BLOCK!=y && BLOCK
63	select MTD_BLKDEVS
64	help
65	  This allows you to mount read-only file systems (such as cramfs)
66	  from an MTD device, without the overhead (and danger) of the caching
67	  driver.
68
69	  You do not need this option for use with the DiskOnChip devices. For
70	  those, enable NFTL support (CONFIG_NFTL) instead.
71
72config FTL
73	tristate "FTL (Flash Translation Layer) support"
74	depends on BLOCK
75	select MTD_BLKDEVS
76	help
77	  This provides support for the original Flash Translation Layer which
78	  is part of the PCMCIA specification. It uses a kind of pseudo-
79	  file system on a flash device to emulate a block device with
80	  512-byte sectors, on top of which you put a 'normal' file system.
81
82	  You may find that the algorithms used in this code are patented
83	  unless you live in the Free World where software patents aren't
84	  legal - in the USA you are only permitted to use this on PCMCIA
85	  hardware, although under the terms of the GPL you're obviously
86	  permitted to copy, modify and distribute the code as you wish. Just
87	  not use it.
88
89config NFTL
90	tristate "NFTL (NAND Flash Translation Layer) support"
91	depends on BLOCK
92	select MTD_BLKDEVS
93	help
94	  This provides support for the NAND Flash Translation Layer which is
95	  used on M-Systems' DiskOnChip devices. It uses a kind of pseudo-
96	  file system on a flash device to emulate a block device with
97	  512-byte sectors, on top of which you put a 'normal' file system.
98
99	  You may find that the algorithms used in this code are patented
100	  unless you live in the Free World where software patents aren't
101	  legal - in the USA you are only permitted to use this on DiskOnChip
102	  hardware, although under the terms of the GPL you're obviously
103	  permitted to copy, modify and distribute the code as you wish. Just
104	  not use it.
105
106config NFTL_RW
107	bool "Write support for NFTL"
108	depends on NFTL
109	help
110	  Support for writing to the NAND Flash Translation Layer, as used
111	  on the DiskOnChip.
112
113config INFTL
114	tristate "INFTL (Inverse NAND Flash Translation Layer) support"
115	depends on BLOCK
116	select MTD_BLKDEVS
117	help
118	  This provides support for the Inverse NAND Flash Translation
119	  Layer which is used on M-Systems' newer DiskOnChip devices. It
120	  uses a kind of pseudo-file system on a flash device to emulate
121	  a block device with 512-byte sectors, on top of which you put
122	  a 'normal' file system.
123
124	  You may find that the algorithms used in this code are patented
125	  unless you live in the Free World where software patents aren't
126	  legal - in the USA you are only permitted to use this on DiskOnChip
127	  hardware, although under the terms of the GPL you're obviously
128	  permitted to copy, modify and distribute the code as you wish. Just
129	  not use it.
130
131config RFD_FTL
132	tristate "Resident Flash Disk (Flash Translation Layer) support"
133	depends on BLOCK
134	select MTD_BLKDEVS
135	help
136	  This provides support for the flash translation layer known
137	  as the Resident Flash Disk (RFD), as used by the Embedded BIOS
138	  of General Software. There is a blurb at:
139
140		http://www.gensw.com/pages/prod/bios/rfd.htm
141
142config SSFDC
143	tristate "NAND SSFDC (SmartMedia) read only translation layer"
144	depends on BLOCK
145	select MTD_BLKDEVS
146	help
147	  This enables read only access to SmartMedia formatted NAND
148	  flash. You can mount it with FAT file system.
149
150config SM_FTL
151	tristate "SmartMedia/xD new translation layer"
152	depends on BLOCK
153	select MTD_BLKDEVS
154	select MTD_NAND_CORE
155	select MTD_NAND_ECC_SW_HAMMING
156	help
157	  This enables EXPERIMENTAL R/W support for SmartMedia/xD
158	  FTL (Flash translation layer).
159	  Write support is only lightly tested, therefore this driver
160	  isn't recommended to use with valuable data (anyway if you have
161	  valuable data, do backups regardless of software/hardware you
162	  use, because you never know what will eat your data...)
163	  If you only need R/O access, you can use older R/O driver
164	  (CONFIG_SSFDC)
165
166config MTD_OOPS
167	tristate "Log panic/oops to an MTD buffer"
168	help
169	  This enables panic and oops messages to be logged to a circular
170	  buffer in a flash partition where it can be read back at some
171	  later point.
172
173config MTD_PSTORE
174	tristate "Log panic/oops to an MTD buffer based on pstore"
175	depends on PSTORE_BLK
176	help
177	  This enables panic and oops messages to be logged to a circular
178	  buffer in a flash partition where it can be read back as files after
179	  mounting pstore filesystem.
180
181	  If unsure, say N.
182
183config MTD_SWAP
184	tristate "Swap on MTD device support"
185	depends on MTD && SWAP
186	select MTD_BLKDEVS
187	help
188	  Provides volatile block device driver on top of mtd partition
189	  suitable for swapping.  The mapping of written blocks is not saved.
190	  The driver provides wear leveling by storing erase counter into the
191	  OOB.
192
193config MTD_PARTITIONED_MASTER
194	bool "Retain master device when partitioned"
195	default n
196	depends on MTD
197	help
198	  For historical reasons, by default, either a master is present or
199	  several partitions are present, but not both. The concern was that
200	  data listed in multiple partitions was dangerous; however, SCSI does
201	  this and it is frequently useful for applications. This config option
202	  leaves the master in even if the device is partitioned. It also makes
203	  the parent of the partition device be the master device, rather than
204	  what lies behind the master.
205
206source "drivers/mtd/chips/Kconfig"
207
208source "drivers/mtd/maps/Kconfig"
209
210source "drivers/mtd/devices/Kconfig"
211
212source "drivers/mtd/nand/Kconfig"
213
214source "drivers/mtd/lpddr/Kconfig"
215
216source "drivers/mtd/spi-nor/Kconfig"
217
218source "drivers/mtd/ubi/Kconfig"
219
220source "drivers/mtd/hyperbus/Kconfig"
221
222endif # MTD
223