config BLK_DEV_FD
tristate "Normal floppy disk support"
- depends on (!ARCH_S390 && !M68K && !IA64 && !USERMODE) || Q40 || (SUN3X && BROKEN)
+ depends on ARCH_MAY_HAVE_PC_FDC
---help---
If you want to use the floppy disk drive(s) of your PC under Linux,
say Y. Information about this driver, especially important for IBM
config BLK_DEV_PS2
tristate "PS/2 ESDI hard disk support"
- depends on MCA && MCA_LEGACY
+ depends on MCA && MCA_LEGACY && BROKEN
help
Say Y here if you have a PS/2 machine with a MCA bus and an ESDI
hard disk.
config BLK_DEV_XD
tristate "XT hard disk support"
- depends on ISA
+ depends on ISA && ISA_DMA_API
help
Very old 8 bit hard disk controllers used in the IBM XT computer
will be supported if you say Y here.
config PARIDE
tristate "Parallel port IDE device support"
- depends on PARPORT
+ depends on PARPORT_PC
---help---
There are many external CD-ROM and disk devices that connect through
your computer's parallel port. Most of them are actually IDE devices
config BLK_DEV_UBD
bool "Virtual block device"
- depends on USERMODE
+ depends on UML
---help---
The User-Mode Linux port includes a driver called UBD which will let
you access arbitrary files on the host computer as block devices.
config MMAPPER
tristate "Example IO memory driver (BROKEN)"
- depends on USERMODE && BROKEN
+ depends on UML && BROKEN
---help---
The User-Mode Linux port can provide support for IO Memory
emulation with this option. This allows a host file to be
config BLK_DEV_VROOT
tristate "Virtual Root device support"
+ depends on QUOTACTL
---help---
Saying Y here will allow you to use quota/fs ioctls on a shared
partition within a virtual server without compromising security.
This driver supports certain USB attached storage devices
such as flash keys.
- Warning: Enabling this cripples the usb-storage driver.
+ If you enable this driver, it is recommended to avoid conflicts
+ with usb-storage by enabling USB_LIBUSUAL.
If unsure, say N.
thus say N here.
config BLK_DEV_RAM_COUNT
- int "Default number of RAM disks" if BLK_DEV_RAM
+ int "Default number of RAM disks"
default "16"
+ depends on BLK_DEV_RAM
help
The default value is 16 RAM disks. Change this if you know what
are doing. If you boot from a filesystem that needs to be extracted
what are you doing. If you are using IBM S/390, then set this to
8192.
-config BLK_DEV_INITRD
- bool "Initial RAM disk (initrd) support"
- depends on BLK_DEV_RAM=y
- help
- The initial RAM disk is a RAM disk that is loaded by the boot loader
- (loadlin or lilo) and that is mounted as root before the normal boot
- procedure. It is typically used to load modules needed to mount the
- "real" root file system, etc. See <file:Documentation/initrd.txt>
- for details.
-
-config INITRAMFS_SOURCE
- string "Initramfs source file(s)"
- default ""
+config BLK_DEV_RAM_BLOCKSIZE
+ int "Default RAM disk block size (bytes)"
+ depends on BLK_DEV_RAM
+ default "1024"
help
- This can be either a single cpio archive with a .cpio suffix or a
- space-separated list of directories and files for building the
- initramfs image. A cpio archive should contain a filesystem archive
- to be used as an initramfs image. Directories should contain a
- filesystem layout to be included in the initramfs image. Files
- should contain entries according to the format described by the
- "usr/gen_init_cpio" program in the kernel tree.
-
- When multiple directories and files are specified then the
- initramfs image will be the aggregate of all of them.
-
- See <file:Documentation/early-userspace/README for more details.
+ The default value is 1024 kilobytes. PAGE_SIZE is a much more
+ efficient choice however. The default is kept to ensure initrd
+ setups function - apparently needed by the rd_load_image routine
+ that supposes the filesystem in the image uses a 1024 blocksize.
- If you are not sure, leave it blank.
-
-config INITRAMFS_ROOT_UID
- int "User ID to map to 0 (user root)"
- depends on INITRAMFS_SOURCE!=""
- default "0"
+config BLK_DEV_INITRD
+ bool "Initial RAM filesystem and RAM disk (initramfs/initrd) support"
+ depends on BROKEN || !FRV
help
- This setting is only meaningful if the INITRAMFS_SOURCE is
- contains a directory. Setting this user ID (UID) to something
- other than "0" will cause all files owned by that UID to be
- owned by user root in the initial ramdisk image.
+ The initial RAM filesystem is a ramfs which is loaded by the
+ boot loader (loadlin or lilo) and that is mounted as root
+ before the normal boot procedure. It is typically used to
+ load modules needed to mount the "real" root file system,
+ etc. See <file:Documentation/initrd.txt> for details.
- If you are not sure, leave it set to "0".
+ If RAM disk support (BLK_DEV_RAM) is also included, this
+ also enables initial RAM disk (initrd) support.
-config INITRAMFS_ROOT_GID
- int "Group ID to map to 0 (group root)"
- depends on INITRAMFS_SOURCE!=""
- default "0"
- help
- This setting is only meaningful if the INITRAMFS_SOURCE is
- contains a directory. Setting this group ID (GID) to something
- other than "0" will cause all files owned by that GID to be
- owned by group root in the initial ramdisk image.
-
- If you are not sure, leave it set to "0".
-
-#XXX - it makes sense to enable this only for 32-bit subarch's, not for x86_64
-#for instance.
-config LBD
- bool "Support for Large Block Devices"
- depends on X86 || MIPS32 || PPC32 || ARCH_S390_31 || SUPERH || USERMODE
- help
- Say Y here if you want to attach large (bigger than 2TB) discs to
- your machine, or if you want to have a raid or loopback device
- bigger than 2TB. Otherwise say N.
config CDROM_PKTCDVD
tristate "Packet writing on CD/DVD media"
- depends on !USERMODE
+ depends on !UML
help
If you have a CDROM drive that supports packet writing, say Y to
include preliminary support. It should work with any MMC/Mt Fuji
This controls the maximum number of active concurrent packets. More
concurrent packets can increase write performance, but also require
more memory. Each concurrent packet will require approximately 64Kb
- of non-swappable kernel memory, memory which will be allocated at
- pktsetup time.
+ of non-swappable kernel memory, memory which will be allocated when
+ a disc is opened for writing.
config CDROM_PKTCDVD_WCACHE
- bool "Enable write caching"
- depends on CDROM_PKTCDVD
+ bool "Enable write caching (EXPERIMENTAL)"
+ depends on CDROM_PKTCDVD && EXPERIMENTAL
help
If enabled, write caching will be set for the CD-R/W device. For now
this option is dangerous unless the CD-RW media is known good, as we
source "drivers/s390/block/Kconfig"
-source "drivers/block/Kconfig.iosched"
-
config ATA_OVER_ETH
tristate "ATA over Ethernet support"
depends on NET
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