1ec98c681SJan Engelhardtmenuconfig MTD 21da177e4SLinus Torvalds tristate "Memory Technology Device (MTD) support" 3c4dfa25aSAlban Bedel imply NVMEM 41da177e4SLinus Torvalds help 51da177e4SLinus Torvalds Memory Technology Devices are flash, RAM and similar chips, often 61da177e4SLinus Torvalds used for solid state file systems on embedded devices. This option 71da177e4SLinus Torvalds will provide the generic support for MTD drivers to register 81da177e4SLinus Torvalds themselves with the kernel and for potential users of MTD devices 91da177e4SLinus Torvalds to enumerate the devices which are present and obtain a handle on 101da177e4SLinus Torvalds them. It will also allow you to select individual drivers for 111da177e4SLinus Torvalds particular hardware and users of MTD devices. If unsure, say N. 121da177e4SLinus Torvalds 13ec98c681SJan Engelhardtif MTD 14ec98c681SJan Engelhardt 1580f53da0SMike Frysingerconfig MTD_TESTS 1648e546b7SWolfram Sang tristate "MTD tests support (DANGEROUS)" 1780f53da0SMike Frysinger depends on m 1880f53da0SMike Frysinger help 1980f53da0SMike Frysinger This option includes various MTD tests into compilation. The tests 2080f53da0SMike Frysinger should normally be compiled as kernel modules. The modules perform 2180f53da0SMike Frysinger various checks and verifications when loaded. 2280f53da0SMike Frysinger 2348e546b7SWolfram Sang WARNING: some of the tests will ERASE entire MTD device which they 2448e546b7SWolfram Sang test. Do not use these tests unless you really know what you do. 2548e546b7SWolfram Sang 2699352afeSRafał Miłeckimenu "Partition parsers" 2799352afeSRafał Miłeckisource "drivers/mtd/parsers/Kconfig" 2899352afeSRafał Miłeckiendmenu 2999352afeSRafał Miłecki 301da177e4SLinus Torvaldscomment "User Modules And Translation Layers" 311da177e4SLinus Torvalds 327f11b4d4SEzequiel Garcia# 337f11b4d4SEzequiel Garcia# MTD block device support is select'ed if needed 347f11b4d4SEzequiel Garcia# 35f6a7ecb1SJosh Boyerconfig MTD_BLKDEVS 367f11b4d4SEzequiel Garcia tristate 37f6a7ecb1SJosh Boyer 381da177e4SLinus Torvaldsconfig MTD_BLOCK 391da177e4SLinus Torvalds tristate "Caching block device access to MTD devices" 40ec98c681SJan Engelhardt depends on BLOCK 41f6a7ecb1SJosh Boyer select MTD_BLKDEVS 42a8222a84SBoris Brezillon help 431da177e4SLinus Torvalds Although most flash chips have an erase size too large to be useful 441da177e4SLinus Torvalds as block devices, it is possible to use MTD devices which are based 451da177e4SLinus Torvalds on RAM chips in this manner. This block device is a user of MTD 461da177e4SLinus Torvalds devices performing that function. 471da177e4SLinus Torvalds 486bc219b7SEzequiel Garcia Note that mounting a JFFS2 filesystem doesn't require using mtdblock. 496bc219b7SEzequiel Garcia It's possible to mount a rootfs using the MTD device on the "root=" 506bc219b7SEzequiel Garcia bootargs as "root=mtd2" or "root=mtd:name_of_device". 511da177e4SLinus Torvalds 521da177e4SLinus Torvalds Later, it may be extended to perform read/erase/modify/write cycles 531da177e4SLinus Torvalds on flash chips to emulate a smaller block size. Needless to say, 541da177e4SLinus Torvalds this is very unsafe, but could be useful for file systems which are 551da177e4SLinus Torvalds almost never written to. 561da177e4SLinus Torvalds 571da177e4SLinus Torvalds You do not need this option for use with the DiskOnChip devices. For 581da177e4SLinus Torvalds those, enable NFTL support (CONFIG_NFTL) instead. 591da177e4SLinus Torvalds 601da177e4SLinus Torvaldsconfig MTD_BLOCK_RO 611da177e4SLinus Torvalds tristate "Readonly block device access to MTD devices" 62ec98c681SJan Engelhardt depends on MTD_BLOCK!=y && BLOCK 63f6a7ecb1SJosh Boyer select MTD_BLKDEVS 641da177e4SLinus Torvalds help 651da177e4SLinus Torvalds This allows you to mount read-only file systems (such as cramfs) 661da177e4SLinus Torvalds from an MTD device, without the overhead (and danger) of the caching 671da177e4SLinus Torvalds driver. 681da177e4SLinus Torvalds 691da177e4SLinus Torvalds You do not need this option for use with the DiskOnChip devices. For 701da177e4SLinus Torvalds those, enable NFTL support (CONFIG_NFTL) instead. 711da177e4SLinus Torvalds 72*42ba8c3bSEzequiel Garciacomment "Note that in some cases UBI block is preferred. See MTD_UBI_BLOCK." 73*42ba8c3bSEzequiel Garcia depends on MTD_BLOCK || MTD_BLOCK_RO 74*42ba8c3bSEzequiel Garcia 751da177e4SLinus Torvaldsconfig FTL 761da177e4SLinus Torvalds tristate "FTL (Flash Translation Layer) support" 77ec98c681SJan Engelhardt depends on BLOCK 78f6a7ecb1SJosh Boyer select MTD_BLKDEVS 79a8222a84SBoris Brezillon help 801da177e4SLinus Torvalds This provides support for the original Flash Translation Layer which 811da177e4SLinus Torvalds is part of the PCMCIA specification. It uses a kind of pseudo- 821da177e4SLinus Torvalds file system on a flash device to emulate a block device with 831da177e4SLinus Torvalds 512-byte sectors, on top of which you put a 'normal' file system. 841da177e4SLinus Torvalds 851da177e4SLinus Torvalds You may find that the algorithms used in this code are patented 861da177e4SLinus Torvalds unless you live in the Free World where software patents aren't 871da177e4SLinus Torvalds legal - in the USA you are only permitted to use this on PCMCIA 881da177e4SLinus Torvalds hardware, although under the terms of the GPL you're obviously 891da177e4SLinus Torvalds permitted to copy, modify and distribute the code as you wish. Just 901da177e4SLinus Torvalds not use it. 911da177e4SLinus Torvalds 921da177e4SLinus Torvaldsconfig NFTL 931da177e4SLinus Torvalds tristate "NFTL (NAND Flash Translation Layer) support" 94ec98c681SJan Engelhardt depends on BLOCK 95f6a7ecb1SJosh Boyer select MTD_BLKDEVS 96a8222a84SBoris Brezillon help 971da177e4SLinus Torvalds This provides support for the NAND Flash Translation Layer which is 981da177e4SLinus Torvalds used on M-Systems' DiskOnChip devices. It uses a kind of pseudo- 991da177e4SLinus Torvalds file system on a flash device to emulate a block device with 1001da177e4SLinus Torvalds 512-byte sectors, on top of which you put a 'normal' file system. 1011da177e4SLinus Torvalds 1021da177e4SLinus Torvalds You may find that the algorithms used in this code are patented 1031da177e4SLinus Torvalds unless you live in the Free World where software patents aren't 1041da177e4SLinus Torvalds legal - in the USA you are only permitted to use this on DiskOnChip 1051da177e4SLinus Torvalds hardware, although under the terms of the GPL you're obviously 1061da177e4SLinus Torvalds permitted to copy, modify and distribute the code as you wish. Just 1071da177e4SLinus Torvalds not use it. 1081da177e4SLinus Torvalds 1091da177e4SLinus Torvaldsconfig NFTL_RW 1101da177e4SLinus Torvalds bool "Write support for NFTL" 1111da177e4SLinus Torvalds depends on NFTL 1121da177e4SLinus Torvalds help 1131da177e4SLinus Torvalds Support for writing to the NAND Flash Translation Layer, as used 1141da177e4SLinus Torvalds on the DiskOnChip. 1151da177e4SLinus Torvalds 1161da177e4SLinus Torvaldsconfig INFTL 1171da177e4SLinus Torvalds tristate "INFTL (Inverse NAND Flash Translation Layer) support" 118ec98c681SJan Engelhardt depends on BLOCK 119f6a7ecb1SJosh Boyer select MTD_BLKDEVS 120a8222a84SBoris Brezillon help 1211da177e4SLinus Torvalds This provides support for the Inverse NAND Flash Translation 1221da177e4SLinus Torvalds Layer which is used on M-Systems' newer DiskOnChip devices. It 1231da177e4SLinus Torvalds uses a kind of pseudo-file system on a flash device to emulate 1241da177e4SLinus Torvalds a block device with 512-byte sectors, on top of which you put 1251da177e4SLinus Torvalds a 'normal' file system. 1261da177e4SLinus Torvalds 1271da177e4SLinus Torvalds You may find that the algorithms used in this code are patented 1281da177e4SLinus Torvalds unless you live in the Free World where software patents aren't 1291da177e4SLinus Torvalds legal - in the USA you are only permitted to use this on DiskOnChip 1301da177e4SLinus Torvalds hardware, although under the terms of the GPL you're obviously 1311da177e4SLinus Torvalds permitted to copy, modify and distribute the code as you wish. Just 1321da177e4SLinus Torvalds not use it. 1331da177e4SLinus Torvalds 134e27a9960SSean Youngconfig RFD_FTL 135e27a9960SSean Young tristate "Resident Flash Disk (Flash Translation Layer) support" 136ec98c681SJan Engelhardt depends on BLOCK 137f6a7ecb1SJosh Boyer select MTD_BLKDEVS 138a8222a84SBoris Brezillon help 139e27a9960SSean Young This provides support for the flash translation layer known 140e27a9960SSean Young as the Resident Flash Disk (RFD), as used by the Embedded BIOS 141cd5f6346SKyungmin Park of General Software. There is a blurb at: 142cd5f6346SKyungmin Park 143cd5f6346SKyungmin Park http://www.gensw.com/pages/prod/bios/rfd.htm 144e27a9960SSean Young 14551197abfSClaudio Lanconelliconfig SSFDC 146892e4fbaSDavid Woodhouse tristate "NAND SSFDC (SmartMedia) read only translation layer" 147ec98c681SJan Engelhardt depends on BLOCK 148f6a7ecb1SJosh Boyer select MTD_BLKDEVS 14951197abfSClaudio Lanconelli help 15051197abfSClaudio Lanconelli This enables read only access to SmartMedia formatted NAND 15151197abfSClaudio Lanconelli flash. You can mount it with FAT file system. 15251197abfSClaudio Lanconelli 1537d17c02aSMaxim Levitskyconfig SM_FTL 1547d17c02aSMaxim Levitsky tristate "SmartMedia/xD new translation layer" 1556372680cSKees Cook depends on BLOCK 1567d17c02aSMaxim Levitsky select MTD_BLKDEVS 157e5acf9c8SMiquel Raynal select MTD_NAND_CORE 1589bb94643SMiquel Raynal select MTD_NAND_ECC_SW_HAMMING 1597d17c02aSMaxim Levitsky help 1606f92355cSMaxim Levitsky This enables EXPERIMENTAL R/W support for SmartMedia/xD 1617de6f798SDavid Woodhouse FTL (Flash translation layer). 1626f92355cSMaxim Levitsky Write support is only lightly tested, therefore this driver 1636f92355cSMaxim Levitsky isn't recommended to use with valuable data (anyway if you have 1646f92355cSMaxim Levitsky valuable data, do backups regardless of software/hardware you 1656f92355cSMaxim Levitsky use, because you never know what will eat your data...) 1666f92355cSMaxim Levitsky If you only need R/O access, you can use older R/O driver 1676f92355cSMaxim Levitsky (CONFIG_SSFDC) 1687d17c02aSMaxim Levitsky 1694b23aff0SRichard Purdieconfig MTD_OOPS 1704b23aff0SRichard Purdie tristate "Log panic/oops to an MTD buffer" 1714b23aff0SRichard Purdie help 1724b23aff0SRichard Purdie This enables panic and oops messages to be logged to a circular 1734b23aff0SRichard Purdie buffer in a flash partition where it can be read back at some 1744b23aff0SRichard Purdie later point. 1754b23aff0SRichard Purdie 17678c08247SWeiXiong Liaoconfig MTD_PSTORE 17778c08247SWeiXiong Liao tristate "Log panic/oops to an MTD buffer based on pstore" 17878c08247SWeiXiong Liao depends on PSTORE_BLK 17978c08247SWeiXiong Liao help 18078c08247SWeiXiong Liao This enables panic and oops messages to be logged to a circular 18178c08247SWeiXiong Liao buffer in a flash partition where it can be read back as files after 18278c08247SWeiXiong Liao mounting pstore filesystem. 18378c08247SWeiXiong Liao 18478c08247SWeiXiong Liao If unsure, say N. 18578c08247SWeiXiong Liao 186a3215902SJarkko Lavinenconfig MTD_SWAP 187a3215902SJarkko Lavinen tristate "Swap on MTD device support" 188a3215902SJarkko Lavinen depends on MTD && SWAP 189a3215902SJarkko Lavinen select MTD_BLKDEVS 190a3215902SJarkko Lavinen help 191a3215902SJarkko Lavinen Provides volatile block device driver on top of mtd partition 192a3215902SJarkko Lavinen suitable for swapping. The mapping of written blocks is not saved. 193a3215902SJarkko Lavinen The driver provides wear leveling by storing erase counter into the 194a3215902SJarkko Lavinen OOB. 195a3215902SJarkko Lavinen 196727dc612SDan Ehrenbergconfig MTD_PARTITIONED_MASTER 197727dc612SDan Ehrenberg bool "Retain master device when partitioned" 198727dc612SDan Ehrenberg default n 199727dc612SDan Ehrenberg depends on MTD 200727dc612SDan Ehrenberg help 201727dc612SDan Ehrenberg For historical reasons, by default, either a master is present or 202727dc612SDan Ehrenberg several partitions are present, but not both. The concern was that 203727dc612SDan Ehrenberg data listed in multiple partitions was dangerous; however, SCSI does 204727dc612SDan Ehrenberg this and it is frequently useful for applications. This config option 205727dc612SDan Ehrenberg leaves the master in even if the device is partitioned. It also makes 206727dc612SDan Ehrenberg the parent of the partition device be the master device, rather than 207727dc612SDan Ehrenberg what lies behind the master. 208727dc612SDan Ehrenberg 2091da177e4SLinus Torvaldssource "drivers/mtd/chips/Kconfig" 2101da177e4SLinus Torvalds 2111da177e4SLinus Torvaldssource "drivers/mtd/maps/Kconfig" 2121da177e4SLinus Torvalds 2131da177e4SLinus Torvaldssource "drivers/mtd/devices/Kconfig" 2141da177e4SLinus Torvalds 2151da177e4SLinus Torvaldssource "drivers/mtd/nand/Kconfig" 2161da177e4SLinus Torvalds 21760f26520SAlexey Korolevsource "drivers/mtd/lpddr/Kconfig" 21860f26520SAlexey Korolev 219b199489dSHuang Shijiesource "drivers/mtd/spi-nor/Kconfig" 220b199489dSHuang Shijie 221801c135cSArtem B. Bityutskiysource "drivers/mtd/ubi/Kconfig" 222801c135cSArtem B. Bityutskiy 223dcc7d344SVignesh Raghavendrasource "drivers/mtd/hyperbus/Kconfig" 224dcc7d344SVignesh Raghavendra 225ec98c681SJan Engelhardtendif # MTD 226