SH SuperH architecture is enabled.
SMP The kernel is an SMP kernel.
SPARC Sparc architecture is enabled.
- SWSUSP Software suspend is enabled.
+ SWSUSP Software suspend (hibernation) is enabled.
+ SUSPEND System suspend states are enabled.
TS Appropriate touchscreen support is enabled.
USB USB support is enabled.
USBHID USB Human Interface Device support is enabled.
default: 0
acpi_sleep= [HW,ACPI] Sleep options
- Format: { s3_bios, s3_mode, s3_beep }
+ Format: { s3_bios, s3_mode, s3_beep, s4_nohwsig, old_ordering }
See Documentation/power/video.txt for s3_bios and s3_mode.
s3_beep is for debugging; it makes the PC's speaker beep
as soon as the kernel's real-mode entry point is called.
+ s4_nohwsig prevents ACPI hardware signature from being
+ used during resume from hibernation.
+ old_ordering causes the ACPI 1.0 ordering of the _PTS
+ control method, wrt putting devices into low power
+ states, to be enforced (the ACPI 2.0 ordering of _PTS is
+ used by default).
acpi_sci= [HW,ACPI] ACPI System Control Interrupt trigger mode
Format: { level | edge | high | low }
acpi.debug_level= [HW,ACPI]
Format: <int>
Each bit of the <int> indicates an ACPI debug level,
- 1: enable, 0: disable. It is useful for boot time
- debugging. After system has booted up, it can be set
- via /sys/module/acpi/parameters/debug_level.
- CONFIG_ACPI_DEBUG must be enabled for this to produce any output.
- Available bits (add the numbers together) to enable different
- debug output levels of the ACPI subsystem:
- 0x01 error 0x02 warn 0x04 init 0x08 debug object
- 0x10 info 0x20 init names 0x40 parse 0x80 load
- 0x100 dispatch 0x200 execute 0x400 names 0x800 operation region
- 0x1000 bfield 0x2000 tables 0x4000 values 0x8000 objects
- 0x10000 resources 0x20000 user requests 0x40000 package.
- The number can be in decimal or prefixed with 0x in hex.
- Warning: Many of these options can produce a lot of
- output and make your system unusable. Be very careful.
+ which corresponds to the level in an ACPI_DEBUG_PRINT
+ statement. After system has booted up, this mask
+ can be set via /sys/module/acpi/parameters/debug_level.
+
+ CONFIG_ACPI_DEBUG must be enabled for this to produce
+ any output. The number can be in decimal or prefixed
+ with 0x in hex. Some of these options produce so much
+ output that the system is unusable.
+
+ The following global components are defined by the
+ ACPI CA:
+ 0x01 error
+ 0x02 warn
+ 0x04 init
+ 0x08 debug object
+ 0x10 info
+ 0x20 init names
+ 0x40 parse
+ 0x80 load
+ 0x100 dispatch
+ 0x200 execute
+ 0x400 names
+ 0x800 operation region
+ 0x1000 bfield
+ 0x2000 tables
+ 0x4000 values
+ 0x8000 objects
+ 0x10000 resources
+ 0x20000 user requests
+ 0x40000 package
+ The number can be in decimal or prefixed with 0x in hex.
+ Warning: Many of these options can produce a lot of
+ output and make your system unusable. Be very careful.
+
+ acpi.power_nocheck= [HW,ACPI]
+ Format: 1/0 enable/disable the check of power state.
+ On some bogus BIOS the _PSC object/_STA object of
+ power resource can't return the correct device power
+ state. In such case it is unneccessary to check its
+ power state again in power transition.
+ 1 : disable the power state check
acpi_pm_good [X86-32,X86-64]
Override the pmtimer bug detection: force the kernel
aic79xx= [HW,SCSI]
See Documentation/scsi/aic79xx.txt.
+ amd_iommu= [HW,X86-84]
+ Pass parameters to the AMD IOMMU driver in the system.
+ Possible values are:
+ isolate - enable device isolation (each device, as far
+ as possible, will get its own protection
+ domain)
+ amd_iommu_size= [HW,X86-64]
+ Define the size of the aperture for the AMD IOMMU
+ driver. Possible values are:
+ '32M', '64M' (default), '128M', '256M', '512M', '1G'
+
amijoy.map= [HW,JOY] Amiga joystick support
Map of devices attached to JOY0DAT and JOY1DAT
Format: <a>,<b>
when initialising the APIC and IO-APIC components.
apm= [APM] Advanced Power Management
- See header of arch/i386/kernel/apm.c.
+ See header of arch/x86/kernel/apm_32.c.
arcrimi= [HW,NET] ARCnet - "RIM I" (entirely mem-mapped) cards
Format: <io>,<irq>,<nodeID>
no delay (0).
Format: integer
+ bootmem_debug [KNL] Enable bootmem allocator debug messages.
+
bttv.card= [HW,V4L] bttv (bt848 + bt878 based grabber cards)
bttv.radio= Most important insmod options are available as
kernel args too.
cio_ignore= [S390]
See Documentation/s390/CommonIO for details.
- cio_msg= [S390]
- See Documentation/s390/CommonIO for details.
-
clock= [BUGS=X86-32, HW] gettimeofday clocksource override.
[Deprecated]
Forces specified clocksource (if available) to be used
switching to the matching ttyS device later. The
options are the same as for ttyS, above.
+ If the device connected to the port is not a TTY but a braille
+ device, prepend "brl," before the device type, for instance
+ console=brl,ttyS0
+ For now, only VisioBraille is supported.
+
earlycon= [KNL] Output early console device and options.
uart[8250],io,<addr>[,options]
uart[8250],mmio,<addr>[,options]
1 will print _a lot_ more information - normally
only useful to kernel developers.
+ debug_objects [KNL] Enable object debugging
+
+ debugpat [X86] Enable PAT debugging
+
decnet.addr= [HW,NET]
Format: <area>[,<node>]
See also Documentation/networking/decnet.txt.
See drivers/char/README.epca and
Documentation/digiepca.txt.
+ disable_mtrr_cleanup [X86]
+ enable_mtrr_cleanup [X86]
+ The kernel tries to adjust MTRR layout from continuous
+ to discrete, to make X server driver able to add WB
+ entry later. This parameter enables/disables that.
+
+ mtrr_chunk_size=nn[KMG] [X86]
+ used for mtrr cleanup. It is largest continous chunk
+ that could hold holes aka. UC entries.
+
+ mtrr_gran_size=nn[KMG] [X86]
+ Used for mtrr cleanup. It is granularity of mtrr block.
+ Default is 1.
+ Large value could prevent small alignment from
+ using up MTRRs.
+
+ mtrr_spare_reg_nr=n [X86]
+ Format: <integer>
+ Range: 0,7 : spare reg number
+ Default : 1
+ Used for mtrr cleanup. It is spare mtrr entries number.
+ Set to 2 or more if your graphical card needs more.
+
disable_mtrr_trim [X86, Intel and AMD only]
By default the kernel will trim any uncacheable
memory out of your available memory pool based on
eata= [HW,SCSI]
edd= [EDD]
- Format: {"of[f]" | "sk[ipmbr]"}
- See comment in arch/i386/boot/edd.S
+ Format: {"off" | "on" | "skip[mbr]"}
eisa_irq_edge= [PARISC,HW]
See header of drivers/parisc/eisa.c.
elanfreq= [X86-32]
See comment before function elanfreq_setup() in
- arch/i386/kernel/cpu/cpufreq/elanfreq.c.
+ arch/x86/kernel/cpu/cpufreq/elanfreq.c.
elevator= [IOSCHED]
Format: {"anticipatory" | "cfq" | "deadline" | "noop"}
floppy= [HW]
See Documentation/floppy.txt.
+ force_pal_cache_flush
+ [IA-64] Avoid check_sal_cache_flush which may hang on
+ buggy SAL_CACHE_FLUSH implementations. Using this
+ parameter will force ia64_sal_cache_flush to call
+ ia64_pal_cache_flush instead of SAL_CACHE_FLUSH.
+
gamecon.map[2|3]=
[HW,JOY] Multisystem joystick and NES/SNES/PSX pad
support via parallel port (up to 5 devices per port)
hd= [EIDE] (E)IDE hard drive subsystem geometry
Format: <cyl>,<head>,<sect>
- hd?= [HW] (E)IDE subsystem
- hd?lun= See Documentation/ide/ide.txt.
-
highmem=nn[KMG] [KNL,BOOT] forces the highmem zone to have an exact
size of <nn>. This works even on boxes that have no
highmem otherwise. This also works to reduce highmem
hisax= [HW,ISDN]
See Documentation/isdn/README.HiSax.
- hugepages= [HW,X86-32,IA-64] Maximal number of HugeTLB pages.
- hugepagesz= [HW,IA-64,PPC] The size of the HugeTLB pages.
+ hugepages= [HW,X86-32,IA-64] HugeTLB pages to allocate at boot.
+ hugepagesz= [HW,IA-64,PPC,X86-64] The size of the HugeTLB pages.
+ On x86-64 and powerpc, this option can be specified
+ multiple times interleaved with hugepages= to reserve
+ huge pages of different sizes. Valid pages sizes on
+ x86-64 are 2M (when the CPU supports "pse") and 1G
+ (when the CPU supports the "pdpe1gb" cpuinfo flag)
+ Note that 1GB pages can only be allocated at boot time
+ using hugepages= and not freed afterwards.
+ default_hugepagesz=
+ [same as hugepagesz=] The size of the default
+ HugeTLB page size. This is the size represented by
+ the legacy /proc/ hugepages APIs, used for SHM, and
+ default size when mounting hugetlbfs filesystems.
+ Defaults to the default architecture's huge page size
+ if not specified.
i8042.direct [HW] Put keyboard port into non-translated mode
i8042.dumbkbd [HW] Pretend that controller can only read data from
Format: ide=nodma or ide=doubler
See Documentation/ide/ide.txt.
- ide?= [HW] (E)IDE subsystem
- Format: ide?=ata66 or chipset specific parameters.
- See Documentation/ide/ide.txt.
-
idebus= [HW] (E)IDE subsystem - VLB/PCI bus speed
See Documentation/ide/ide.txt.
idle= [X86]
- Format: idle=poll or idle=mwait
+ Format: idle=poll or idle=mwait, idle=halt, idle=nomwait
Poll forces a polling idle loop that can slightly improves the performance
of waking up a idle CPU, but will use a lot of power and make the system
run hot. Not recommended.
to not use it because it doesn't save as much power as a normal idle
loop use the MONITOR/MWAIT idle loop anyways. Performance should be the same
as idle=poll.
+ idle=halt. Halt is forced to be used for CPU idle.
+ In such case C2/C3 won't be used again.
+ idle=nomwait. Disable mwait for CPU C-states
ide-pci-generic.all-generic-ide [HW] (E)IDE subsystem
Claim all unknown PCI IDE storage controllers.
l2cr= [PPC]
+ l3cr= [PPC]
+
lapic [X86-32,APIC] Enable the local APIC even if BIOS
disabled it.
* [no]ncq: Turn on or off NCQ.
+ * nohrst, nosrst, norst: suppress hard, soft
+ and both resets.
+
If there are multiple matching configurations changing
the same attribute, the last one is used.
mac5380= [HW,SCSI] Format:
<can_queue>,<cmd_per_lun>,<sg_tablesize>,<hostid>,<use_tags>
- mac53c9x= [HW,SCSI] Format:
- <num_esps>,<disconnect>,<nosync>,<can_queue>,<cmd_per_lun>,<sg_tablesize>,<hostid>,<use_tags>
-
machvec= [IA64] Force the use of a particular machine-vector
(machvec) in a generic kernel.
Example: machvec=hpzx1_swiotlb
or
memmap=0x10000$0x18690000
- memtest= [KNL,X86_64] Enable memtest
+ memtest= [KNL,X86] Enable memtest
Format: <integer>
range: 0,4 : pattern number
default : 0 <disable>
mga= [HW,DRM]
+ mminit_loglevel=
+ [KNL] When CONFIG_DEBUG_MEMORY_INIT is set, this
+ parameter allows control of the logging verbosity for
+ the additional memory initialisation checks. A value
+ of 0 disables mminit logging and a level of 4 will
+ log everything. Information is printed at KERN_DEBUG
+ so loglevel=8 may also need to be specified.
+
mousedev.tap_time=
[MOUSE] Maximum time between finger touching and
leaving touchpad surface for touch to be considered
mtdparts= [MTD]
See drivers/mtd/cmdlinepart.c.
+ mtdset= [ARM]
+ ARM/S3C2412 JIVE boot control
+
+ See arch/arm/mach-s3c2412/mach-jive.c
+
mtouchusb.raw_coordinates=
[HW] Make the MicroTouch USB driver use raw coordinates
('y', default) or cooked coordinates ('n')
This usage is only documented in each driver source
file if at all.
+ nf_conntrack.acct=
+ [NETFILTER] Enable connection tracking flow accounting
+ 0 to disable accounting
+ 1 to enable accounting
+ Default value depends on CONFIG_NF_CT_ACCT that is
+ going to be removed in 2.6.29.
+
nfsaddrs= [NFS]
See Documentation/filesystems/nfsroot.txt.
noexec [IA-64]
noexec [X86-32,X86-64]
+ On X86-32 available only on PAE configured kernels.
noexec=on: enable non-executable mappings (default)
- noexec=off: disable nn-executable mappings
+ noexec=off: disable non-executable mappings
+
+ noexec32 [X86-64]
+ This affects only 32-bit executables.
+ noexec32=on: enable non-executable mappings (default)
+ read doesn't imply executable mappings
+ noexec32=off: disable non-executable mappings
+ read implies executable mappings
nofxsr [BUGS=X86-32] Disables x86 floating point extended
register save and restore. The kernel will only save
nr_uarts= [SERIAL] maximum number of UARTs to be registered.
+ olpc_ec_timeout= [OLPC] ms delay when issuing EC commands
+ Rather than timing out after 20 ms if an EC
+ command is not properly ACKed, override the length
+ of the timeout. We have interrupts disabled while
+ waiting for the ACK, so if this is set too high
+ interrupts *may* be lost!
+
opl3= [HW,OSS]
Format: <io>
Use with caution as certain devices share
address decoders between ROMs and other
resources.
+ norom [X86-32,X86_64] Do not assign address space to
+ expansion ROMs that do not already have
+ BIOS assigned address ranges.
irqmask=0xMMMM [X86-32] Set a bit mask of IRQs allowed to be
assigned automatically to PCI devices. You can
make the kernel exclude IRQs of your ISA cards
This is normally done in pci_enable_device(),
so this option is a temporary workaround
for broken drivers that don't call it.
+ skip_isa_align [X86] do not align io start addr, so can
+ handle more pci cards
firmware [ARM] Do not re-enumerate the bus but instead
just use the configuration from the
bootloader. This is currently used on
Format: { parport<nr> | timid | 0 }
See also Documentation/parport.txt.
+ pmtmr= [X86] Manual setup of pmtmr I/O Port.
+ Override pmtimer IOPort with a hex value.
+ e.g. pmtmr=0x508
+
pnpacpi= [ACPI]
{ off }
Format: <reboot_mode>[,<reboot_mode2>[,...]]
See arch/*/kernel/reboot.c or arch/*/kernel/process.c
+ relax_domain_level=
+ [KNL, SMP] Set scheduler's default relax_domain_level.
+ See Documentation/cpusets.txt.
+
reserve= [KNL,BUGS] Force the kernel to ignore some iomem area
reservetop= [X86-32]
snd-ymfpci= [HW,ALSA]
+ softlockup_panic=
+ [KNL] Should the soft-lockup detector generate panics.
+
sonypi.*= [HW] Sony Programmable I/O Control Device driver
See Documentation/sonypi.txt
tdfx= [HW,DRM]
+ test_suspend= [SUSPEND]
+ Specify "mem" (for Suspend-to-RAM) or "standby" (for
+ standby suspend) as the system sleep state to briefly
+ enter during system startup. The system is woken from
+ this state using a wakeup-capable RTC alarm.
+
thash_entries= [KNL,NET]
Set number of hash buckets for TCP connection
thermal.crt= [HW,ACPI]
-1: disable all critical trip points in all thermal zones
- <degrees C>: lower all critical trip points
+ <degrees C>: override all critical trip points
thermal.nocrt= [HW,ACPI]
Set to disable actions on ACPI thermal zone
<deci-seconds>: poll all this frequency
0: no polling (default)
- tipar.timeout= [HW,PPT]
- Set communications timeout in tenths of a second
- (default 15).
-
- tipar.delay= [HW,PPT]
- Set inter-bit delay in microseconds (default 10).
-
tmscsim= [HW,SCSI]
See comment before function dc390_setup() in
drivers/scsi/tmscsim.c.
Note that genuine overcurrent events won't be
reported either.
+ unknown_nmi_panic
+ [X86-32,X86-64]
+ Set unknown_nmi_panic=1 early on boot.
+
usbcore.autosuspend=
[USB] The autosuspend time delay (in seconds) used
for newly-detected USB devices (default 2). This
usbhid.mousepoll=
[USBHID] The interval which mice are to be polled at.
+ add_efi_memmap [EFI; x86-32,X86-64] Include EFI memory map in
+ kernel's map of available physical RAM.
+
vdso= [X86-32,SH,x86-64]
vdso=2: enable compat VDSO (default with COMPAT_VDSO)
vdso=1: enable VDSO (default)
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