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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	  At the moment, it is also required for the Journalling Flash File
49	  System(s) to obtain a handle on the MTD device when it's mounted
50	  (although JFFS and JFFS2 don't actually use any of the functionality
51	  of the mtdblock device).
52
53	  Later, it may be extended to perform read/erase/modify/write cycles
54	  on flash chips to emulate a smaller block size. Needless to say,
55	  this is very unsafe, but could be useful for file systems which are
56	  almost never written to.
57
58	  You do not need this option for use with the DiskOnChip devices. For
59	  those, enable NFTL support (CONFIG_NFTL) instead.
60
61config MTD_BLOCK_RO
62	tristate "Readonly block device access to MTD devices"
63	depends on MTD_BLOCK!=y && BLOCK
64	select MTD_BLKDEVS
65	help
66	  This allows you to mount read-only file systems (such as cramfs)
67	  from an MTD device, without the overhead (and danger) of the caching
68	  driver.
69
70	  You do not need this option for use with the DiskOnChip devices. For
71	  those, enable NFTL support (CONFIG_NFTL) instead.
72
73config FTL
74	tristate "FTL (Flash Translation Layer) support"
75	depends on BLOCK
76	select MTD_BLKDEVS
77	help
78	  This provides support for the original Flash Translation Layer which
79	  is part of the PCMCIA specification. It uses a kind of pseudo-
80	  file system on a flash device to emulate a block device with
81	  512-byte sectors, on top of which you put a 'normal' file system.
82
83	  You may find that the algorithms used in this code are patented
84	  unless you live in the Free World where software patents aren't
85	  legal - in the USA you are only permitted to use this on PCMCIA
86	  hardware, although under the terms of the GPL you're obviously
87	  permitted to copy, modify and distribute the code as you wish. Just
88	  not use it.
89
90config NFTL
91	tristate "NFTL (NAND Flash Translation Layer) support"
92	depends on BLOCK
93	select MTD_BLKDEVS
94	help
95	  This provides support for the NAND Flash Translation Layer which is
96	  used on M-Systems' DiskOnChip devices. It uses a kind of pseudo-
97	  file system on a flash device to emulate a block device with
98	  512-byte sectors, on top of which you put a 'normal' file system.
99
100	  You may find that the algorithms used in this code are patented
101	  unless you live in the Free World where software patents aren't
102	  legal - in the USA you are only permitted to use this on DiskOnChip
103	  hardware, although under the terms of the GPL you're obviously
104	  permitted to copy, modify and distribute the code as you wish. Just
105	  not use it.
106
107config NFTL_RW
108	bool "Write support for NFTL"
109	depends on NFTL
110	help
111	  Support for writing to the NAND Flash Translation Layer, as used
112	  on the DiskOnChip.
113
114config INFTL
115	tristate "INFTL (Inverse NAND Flash Translation Layer) support"
116	depends on BLOCK
117	select MTD_BLKDEVS
118	help
119	  This provides support for the Inverse NAND Flash Translation
120	  Layer which is used on M-Systems' newer DiskOnChip devices. It
121	  uses a kind of pseudo-file system on a flash device to emulate
122	  a block device with 512-byte sectors, on top of which you put
123	  a 'normal' file system.
124
125	  You may find that the algorithms used in this code are patented
126	  unless you live in the Free World where software patents aren't
127	  legal - in the USA you are only permitted to use this on DiskOnChip
128	  hardware, although under the terms of the GPL you're obviously
129	  permitted to copy, modify and distribute the code as you wish. Just
130	  not use it.
131
132config RFD_FTL
133	tristate "Resident Flash Disk (Flash Translation Layer) support"
134	depends on BLOCK
135	select MTD_BLKDEVS
136	help
137	  This provides support for the flash translation layer known
138	  as the Resident Flash Disk (RFD), as used by the Embedded BIOS
139	  of General Software. There is a blurb at:
140
141		http://www.gensw.com/pages/prod/bios/rfd.htm
142
143config SSFDC
144	tristate "NAND SSFDC (SmartMedia) read only translation layer"
145	depends on BLOCK
146	select MTD_BLKDEVS
147	help
148	  This enables read only access to SmartMedia formatted NAND
149	  flash. You can mount it with FAT file system.
150
151config SM_FTL
152	tristate "SmartMedia/xD new translation layer"
153	depends on BLOCK
154	select MTD_BLKDEVS
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