menuconfig MTD tristate "Memory Technology Device (MTD) support" depends on GENERIC_IO help Memory Technology Devices are flash, RAM and similar chips, often used for solid state file systems on embedded devices. This option will provide the generic support for MTD drivers to register themselves with the kernel and for potential users of MTD devices to enumerate the devices which are present and obtain a handle on them. It will also allow you to select individual drivers for particular hardware and users of MTD devices. If unsure, say N. if MTD config MTD_TESTS tristate "MTD tests support (DANGEROUS)" depends on m help This option includes various MTD tests into compilation. The tests should normally be compiled as kernel modules. The modules perform various checks and verifications when loaded. WARNING: some of the tests will ERASE entire MTD device which they test. Do not use these tests unless you really know what you do. config MTD_REDBOOT_PARTS tristate "RedBoot partition table parsing" ---help--- RedBoot is a ROM monitor and bootloader which deals with multiple 'images' in flash devices by putting a table one of the erase blocks on the device, similar to a partition table, which gives the offsets, lengths and names of all the images stored in the flash. If you need code which can detect and parse this table, and register MTD 'partitions' corresponding to each image in the table, enable this option. You will still need the parsing functions to be called by the driver for your particular device. It won't happen automatically. The SA1100 map driver (CONFIG_MTD_SA1100) has an option for this, for example. if MTD_REDBOOT_PARTS config MTD_REDBOOT_DIRECTORY_BLOCK int "Location of RedBoot partition table" default "-1" ---help--- This option is the Linux counterpart to the CYGNUM_REDBOOT_FIS_DIRECTORY_BLOCK RedBoot compile time option. The option specifies which Flash sectors holds the RedBoot partition table. A zero or positive value gives an absolute erase block number. A negative value specifies a number of sectors before the end of the device. For example "2" means block number 2, "-1" means the last block and "-2" means the penultimate block. config MTD_REDBOOT_PARTS_UNALLOCATED bool "Include unallocated flash regions" help If you need to register each unallocated flash region as a MTD 'partition', enable this option. config MTD_REDBOOT_PARTS_READONLY bool "Force read-only for RedBoot system images" help If you need to force read-only for 'RedBoot', 'RedBoot Config' and 'FIS directory' images, enable this option. endif # MTD_REDBOOT_PARTS config MTD_CMDLINE_PARTS tristate "Command line partition table parsing" depends on MTD ---help--- Allow generic configuration of the MTD partition tables via the kernel command line. Multiple flash resources are supported for hardware where different kinds of flash memory are available. You will still need the parsing functions to be called by the driver for your particular device. It won't happen automatically. The SA1100 map driver (CONFIG_MTD_SA1100) has an option for this, for example. The format for the command line is as follows: mtdparts=[; := :[,] := [@offset][][ro] := unique id used in mapping driver/device := standard linux memsize OR "-" to denote all remaining space := (NAME) Due to the way Linux handles the command line, no spaces are allowed in the partition definition, including mtd id's and partition names. Examples: 1 flash resource (mtd-id "sa1100"), with 1 single writable partition: mtdparts=sa1100:- Same flash, but 2 named partitions, the first one being read-only: mtdparts=sa1100:256k(ARMboot)ro,-(root) If unsure, say 'N'. config MTD_AFS_PARTS tristate "ARM Firmware Suite partition parsing" depends on (ARM || ARM64) ---help--- The ARM Firmware Suite allows the user to divide flash devices into multiple 'images'. Each such image has a header containing its name and offset/size etc. If you need code which can detect and parse these tables, and register MTD 'partitions' corresponding to each image detected, enable this option. You will still need the parsing functions to be called by the driver for your particular device. It won't happen automatically. The 'physmap' map driver (CONFIG_MTD_PHYSMAP) does this, for example. config MTD_OF_PARTS tristate "OpenFirmware partitioning information support" default y depends on OF help This provides a partition parsing function which derives the partition map from the children of the flash node, as described in Documentation/devicetree/bindings/mtd/partition.txt. config MTD_AR7_PARTS tristate "TI AR7 partitioning support" ---help--- TI AR7 partitioning support config MTD_BCM63XX_PARTS tristate "BCM63XX CFE partitioning support" depends on BCM63XX || BMIPS_GENERIC || COMPILE_TEST select CRC32 help This provides partions parsing for BCM63xx devices with CFE bootloaders. config MTD_BCM47XX_PARTS tristate "BCM47XX partitioning support" depends on BCM47XX || ARCH_BCM_5301X help This provides partitions parser for devices based on BCM47xx boards. menu "Partition parsers" source "drivers/mtd/parsers/Kconfig" endmenu comment "User Modules And Translation Layers" # # MTD block device support is select'ed if needed # config MTD_BLKDEVS tristate config MTD_BLOCK tristate "Caching block device access to MTD devices" depends on BLOCK select MTD_BLKDEVS ---help--- Although most flash chips have an erase size too large to be useful as block devices, it is possible to use MTD devices which are based on RAM chips in this manner. This block device is a user of MTD devices performing that function. At the moment, it is also required for the Journalling Flash File System(s) to obtain a handle on the MTD device when it's mounted (although JFFS and JFFS2 don't actually use any of the functionality of the mtdblock device). Later, it may be extended to perform read/erase/modify/write cycles on flash chips to emulate a smaller block size. Needless to say, this is very unsafe, but could be useful for file systems which are almost never written to. You do not need this option for use with the DiskOnChip devices. For those, enable NFTL support (CONFIG_NFTL) instead. config MTD_BLOCK_RO tristate "Readonly block device access to MTD devices" depends on MTD_BLOCK!=y && BLOCK select MTD_BLKDEVS help This allows you to mount read-only file systems (such as cramfs) from an MTD device, without the overhead (and danger) of the caching driver. You do not need this option for use with the DiskOnChip devices. For those, enable NFTL support (CONFIG_NFTL) instead. config FTL tristate "FTL (Flash Translation Layer) support" depends on BLOCK select MTD_BLKDEVS ---help--- This provides support for the original Flash Translation Layer which is part of the PCMCIA specification. It uses a kind of pseudo- file system on a flash device to emulate a block device with 512-byte sectors, on top of which you put a 'normal' file system. You may find that the algorithms used in this code are patented unless you live in the Free World where software patents aren't legal - in the USA you are only permitted to use this on PCMCIA hardware, although under the terms of the GPL you're obviously permitted to copy, modify and distribute the code as you wish. Just not use it. config NFTL tristate "NFTL (NAND Flash Translation Layer) support" depends on BLOCK select MTD_BLKDEVS ---help--- This provides support for the NAND Flash Translation Layer which is used on M-Systems' DiskOnChip devices. It uses a kind of pseudo- file system on a flash device to emulate a block device with 512-byte sectors, on top of which you put a 'normal' file system. You may find that the algorithms used in this code are patented unless you live in the Free World where software patents aren't legal - in the USA you are only permitted to use this on DiskOnChip hardware, although under the terms of the GPL you're obviously permitted to copy, modify and distribute the code as you wish. Just not use it. config NFTL_RW bool "Write support for NFTL" depends on NFTL help Support for writing to the NAND Flash Translation Layer, as used on the DiskOnChip. config INFTL tristate "INFTL (Inverse NAND Flash Translation Layer) support" depends on BLOCK select MTD_BLKDEVS ---help--- This provides support for the Inverse NAND Flash Translation Layer which is used on M-Systems' newer DiskOnChip devices. It uses a kind of pseudo-file system on a flash device to emulate a block device with 512-byte sectors, on top of which you put a 'normal' file system. You may find that the algorithms used in this code are patented unless you live in the Free World where software patents aren't legal - in the USA you are only permitted to use this on DiskOnChip hardware, although under the terms of the GPL you're obviously permitted to copy, modify and distribute the code as you wish. Just not use it. config RFD_FTL tristate "Resident Flash Disk (Flash Translation Layer) support" depends on BLOCK select MTD_BLKDEVS ---help--- This provides support for the flash translation layer known as the Resident Flash Disk (RFD), as used by the Embedded BIOS of General Software. There is a blurb at: http://www.gensw.com/pages/prod/bios/rfd.htm config SSFDC tristate "NAND SSFDC (SmartMedia) read only translation layer" depends on BLOCK select MTD_BLKDEVS help This enables read only access to SmartMedia formatted NAND flash. You can mount it with FAT file system. config SM_FTL tristate "SmartMedia/xD new translation layer" depends on BLOCK select MTD_BLKDEVS select MTD_NAND_ECC help This enables EXPERIMENTAL R/W support for SmartMedia/xD FTL (Flash translation layer). Write support is only lightly tested, therefore this driver isn't recommended to use with valuable data (anyway if you have valuable data, do backups regardless of software/hardware you use, because you never know what will eat your data...) If you only need R/O access, you can use older R/O driver (CONFIG_SSFDC) config MTD_OOPS tristate "Log panic/oops to an MTD buffer" help This enables panic and oops messages to be logged to a circular buffer in a flash partition where it can be read back at some later point. config MTD_SWAP tristate "Swap on MTD device support" depends on MTD && SWAP select MTD_BLKDEVS help Provides volatile block device driver on top of mtd partition suitable for swapping. The mapping of written blocks is not saved. The driver provides wear leveling by storing erase counter into the OOB. config MTD_PARTITIONED_MASTER bool "Retain master device when partitioned" default n depends on MTD help For historical reasons, by default, either a master is present or several partitions are present, but not both. The concern was that data listed in multiple partitions was dangerous; however, SCSI does this and it is frequently useful for applications. This config option leaves the master in even if the device is partitioned. It also makes the parent of the partition device be the master device, rather than what lies behind the master. config MTD_LAZYECCSTATS bool "MTD Lazy ECC Stats collection support" default y help Normally bad block counts for ECC stats are collected at boot time. This option delays the badblock stats collection until ECCGETSTATS ioctl is invoked on the partition. This can significantly decrease boot times depending on the size of the partition. If unsure, say 'N'. source "drivers/mtd/chips/Kconfig" source "drivers/mtd/maps/Kconfig" source "drivers/mtd/devices/Kconfig" source "drivers/mtd/nand/Kconfig" source "drivers/mtd/onenand/Kconfig" source "drivers/mtd/lpddr/Kconfig" source "drivers/mtd/spi-nor/Kconfig" source "drivers/mtd/ubi/Kconfig" endif # MTD