be partitioned into several areas, called 'partitions' in U-Boot.
A filesystem can be placed in each partition.
-config AHCI
- bool "Support SATA controllers with driver model"
- depends on DM
- help
- This enables a uclass for disk controllers in U-Boot. Various driver
- types can use this, such as AHCI/SATA. It does not provide any standard
- operations at present. The block device interface has not been converted
- to driver model.
-
-config DM_SCSI
- bool "Support SCSI controllers with driver model"
- depends on BLK
- help
- This option enables the SCSI (Small Computer System Interface) uclass
- which supports SCSI and SATA HDDs. For every device configuration
- (IDs/LUNs) a block device is created with RAW read/write and
- filesystem support.
-
config BLOCK_CACHE
bool "Use block device cache"
default n
it will prevent repeated reads from directory structures and other
filesystem data structures.
-menu "SATA/SCSI device support"
-
-config SATA_CEVA
- bool "Ceva Sata controller"
- depends on AHCI
- depends on DM_SCSI
+config IDE
+ bool "Support IDE controllers"
help
- This option enables Ceva Sata controller hard IP available on Xilinx
- ZynqMP. Support up to 2 external devices. Complient with SATA 3.1 and
- AHCI 1.3 specifications with hot-plug detect feature.
-
-endmenu
+ Enables support for IDE (Integrated Drive Electronics) hard drives.
+ This allows access to raw blocks and filesystems on an IDE drive
+ from U-Boot. See also CMD_IDE which provides an 'ide' command for
+ performing various IDE operations.