ISAPNP ISA PnP code is enabled.
ISDN Appropriate ISDN support is enabled.
JOY Appropriate joystick support is enabled.
+ KVM Kernel Virtual Machine support is enabled.
LIBATA Libata driver is enabled
LP Printer support is enabled.
LOOP Loopback device support is enabled.
PPT Parallel port support is enabled.
PS2 Appropriate PS/2 support is enabled.
RAM RAM disk support is enabled.
- ROOTPLUG The example Root Plug LSM is enabled.
S390 S390 architecture is enabled.
SCSI Appropriate SCSI support is enabled.
A lot of drivers has their options described inside of
acpi_sleep= [HW,ACPI] Sleep options
Format: { s3_bios, s3_mode, s3_beep, s4_nohwsig,
- old_ordering, s4_nonvs }
+ old_ordering, s4_nonvs, sci_force_enable }
See Documentation/power/video.txt for information on
s3_bios and s3_mode.
s3_beep is for debugging; it makes the PC's speaker beep
of _PTS is used by default).
s4_nonvs prevents the kernel from saving/restoring the
ACPI NVS memory during hibernation.
+ sci_force_enable causes the kernel to set SCI_EN directly
+ on resume from S1/S3 (which is against the ACPI spec,
+ but some broken systems don't work without it).
acpi_use_timer_override [HW,ACPI]
Use timer override. For some broken Nvidia NF5 boards
Change the amount of debugging information output
when initialising the APIC and IO-APIC components.
+ show_lapic= [APIC,X86] Advanced Programmable Interrupt Controller
+ Limit apic dumping. The parameter defines the maximal
+ number of local apics being dumped. Also it is possible
+ to set it to "all" by meaning -- no limit here.
+ Format: { 1 (default) | 2 | ... | all }.
+ The parameter valid if only apic=debug or
+ apic=verbose is specified.
+ Example: apic=debug show_lapic=all
+
apm= [APM] Advanced Power Management
See header of arch/x86/kernel/apm_32.c.
earlyprintk= [X86,SH,BLACKFIN]
earlyprintk=vga
earlyprintk=serial[,ttySn[,baudrate]]
- earlyprintk=dbgp
+ earlyprintk=ttySn[,baudrate]
+ earlyprintk=dbgp[debugController#]
Append ",keep" to not disable it when the real console
takes over.
by the set_ftrace_notrace file in the debugfs
tracing directory.
+ ftrace_graph_filter=[function-list]
+ [FTRACE] Limit the top level callers functions traced
+ by the function graph tracer at boot up.
+ function-list is a comma separated list of functions
+ that can be changed at run time by the
+ set_graph_function file in the debugfs tracing directory.
+
gamecon.map[2|3]=
[HW,JOY] Multisystem joystick and NES/SNES/PSX pad
support via parallel port (up to 5 devices per port)
1 -- enable informational integrity auditing messages.
ima_hash= [IMA]
- Formt: { "sha1" | "md5" }
+ Format: { "sha1" | "md5" }
default: "sha1"
ima_tcb [IMA]
No delay
ip= [IP_PNP]
- See Documentation/filesystems/nfsroot.txt.
+ See Documentation/filesystems/nfs/nfsroot.txt.
ip2= [HW] Set IO/IRQ pairs for up to 4 IntelliPort boards
See comment before ip2_setup() in
kstack=N [X86] Print N words from the kernel stack
in oops dumps.
+ kvm.ignore_msrs=[KVM] Ignore guest accesses to unhandled MSRs.
+ Default is 0 (don't ignore, but inject #GP)
+
+ kvm.oos_shadow= [KVM] Disable out-of-sync shadow paging.
+ Default is 1 (enabled)
+
+ kvm-amd.nested= [KVM,AMD] Allow nested virtualization in KVM/SVM.
+ Default is 0 (off)
+
+ kvm-amd.npt= [KVM,AMD] Disable nested paging (virtualized MMU)
+ for all guests.
+ Default is 1 (enabled) if in 64bit or 32bit-PAE mode
+
+ kvm-intel.bypass_guest_pf=
+ [KVM,Intel] Disables bypassing of guest page faults
+ on Intel chips. Default is 1 (enabled)
+
+ kvm-intel.ept= [KVM,Intel] Disable extended page tables
+ (virtualized MMU) support on capable Intel chips.
+ Default is 1 (enabled)
+
+ kvm-intel.emulate_invalid_guest_state=
+ [KVM,Intel] Enable emulation of invalid guest states
+ Default is 0 (disabled)
+
+ kvm-intel.flexpriority=
+ [KVM,Intel] Disable FlexPriority feature (TPR shadow).
+ Default is 1 (enabled)
+
+ kvm-intel.unrestricted_guest=
+ [KVM,Intel] Disable unrestricted guest feature
+ (virtualized real and unpaged mode) on capable
+ Intel chips. Default is 1 (enabled)
+
+ kvm-intel.vpid= [KVM,Intel] Disable Virtual Processor Identification
+ feature (tagged TLBs) on capable Intel chips.
+ Default is 1 (enabled)
+
l2cr= [PPC]
l3cr= [PPC]
(machvec) in a generic kernel.
Example: machvec=hpzx1_swiotlb
+ machtype= [Loongson] Share the same kernel image file between different
+ yeeloong laptop.
+ Example: machtype=lemote-yeeloong-2f-7inch
+
max_addr=nn[KMG] [KNL,BOOT,ia64] All physical memory greater
than or equal to this physical address is ignored.
going to be removed in 2.6.29.
nfsaddrs= [NFS]
- See Documentation/filesystems/nfsroot.txt.
+ See Documentation/filesystems/nfs/nfsroot.txt.
nfsroot= [NFS] nfs root filesystem for disk-less boxes.
- See Documentation/filesystems/nfsroot.txt.
+ See Documentation/filesystems/nfs/nfsroot.txt.
nfs.callback_tcpport=
[NFS] set the TCP port on which the NFSv4 callback
channel should listen.
+ nfs.cache_getent=
+ [NFS] sets the pathname to the program which is used
+ to update the NFS client cache entries.
+
+ nfs.cache_getent_timeout=
+ [NFS] sets the timeout after which an attempt to
+ update a cache entry is deemed to have failed.
+
nfs.idmap_cache_timeout=
[NFS] set the maximum lifetime for idmapper cache
entries.
symbolic names: lapic and ioapic
Example: nmi_watchdog=2 or nmi_watchdog=panic,lapic
+ netpoll.carrier_timeout=
+ [NET] Specifies amount of time (in seconds) that
+ netpoll should wait for a carrier. By default netpoll
+ waits 4 seconds.
+
no387 [BUGS=X86-32] Tells the kernel to use the 387 maths
emulation library even if a 387 maths coprocessor
is present.
waiting for the ACK, so if this is set too high
interrupts *may* be lost!
+ omap_mux= [OMAP] Override bootloader pin multiplexing.
+ Format: <mux_mode0.mode_name=value>...
+ For example, to override I2C bus2:
+ omap_mux=i2c2_scl.i2c2_scl=0x100,i2c2_sda.i2c2_sda=0x100
+
opl3= [HW,OSS]
Format: <io>
Format: { 0 | 1 }
See arch/parisc/kernel/pdc_chassis.c
- percpu_alloc= [X86] Select which percpu first chunk allocator to use.
- Allowed values are one of "lpage", "embed" and "4k".
- See comments in arch/x86/kernel/setup_percpu.c for
- details on each allocator. This parameter is primarily
- for debugging and performance comparison.
+ percpu_alloc= Select which percpu first chunk allocator to use.
+ Currently supported values are "embed" and "page".
+ Archs may support subset or none of the selections.
+ See comments in mm/percpu.c for details on each
+ allocator. This parameter is primarily for debugging
+ and performance comparison.
pf. [PARIDE]
See Documentation/blockdev/paride.txt.
print-fatal-signals=
[KNL] debug: print fatal signals
- print-fatal-signals=1: print segfault info to
- the kernel console.
+
+ If enabled, warn about various signal handling
+ related application anomalies: too many signals,
+ too many POSIX.1 timers, fatal signals causing a
+ coredump - etc.
+
+ If you hit the warning due to signal overflow,
+ you might want to try "ulimit -i unlimited".
+
default: off.
printk.time= Show timing data prefixed to each printk message line
Useful for devices that are detected asynchronously
(e.g. USB and MMC devices).
- root_plug.vendor_id=
- [ROOTPLUG] Override the default vendor ID
-
- root_plug.product_id=
- [ROOTPLUG] Override the default product ID
-
- root_plug.debug=
- [ROOTPLUG] Enable debugging output
-
rw [KNL] Mount root device read-write on boot
S [KNL] Run init in single mode
sbni= [NET] Granch SBNI12 leased line adapter
+ sched_debug [KNL] Enables verbose scheduler debug messages.
+
sc1200wdt= [HW,WDT] SC1200 WDT (watchdog) driver
Format: <io>[,<timeout>[,<isapnp>]]
stifb= [HW]
Format: bpp:<bpp1>[:<bpp2>[:<bpp3>...]]
+ sunrpc.min_resvport=
+ sunrpc.max_resvport=
+ [NFS,SUNRPC]
+ SunRPC servers often require that client requests
+ originate from a privileged port (i.e. a port in the
+ range 0 < portnr < 1024).
+ An administrator who wishes to reserve some of these
+ ports for other uses may adjust the range that the
+ kernel's sunrpc client considers to be privileged
+ using these two parameters to set the minimum and
+ maximum port values.
+
sunrpc.pool_mode=
[NFS]
Control how the NFS server code allocates CPUs to
pernode one pool for each NUMA node (equivalent
to global on non-NUMA machines)
+ sunrpc.tcp_slot_table_entries=
+ sunrpc.udp_slot_table_entries=
+ [NFS,SUNRPC]
+ Sets the upper limit on the number of simultaneous
+ RPC calls that can be sent from the client to a
+ server. Increasing these values may allow you to
+ improve throughput, but will also increase the
+ amount of memory reserved for use by the client.
+
swiotlb= [IA-64] Number of I/O TLB slabs
switches= [HW,M68k]
trace_buf_size=nn[KMG]
[FTRACE] will set tracing buffer size.
+ trace_event=[event-list]
+ [FTRACE] Set and start specified trace events in order
+ to facilitate early boot debugging.
+ See also Documentation/trace/events.txt
+
trix= [HW,OSS] MediaTrix AudioTrix Pro
Format:
<io>,<irq>,<dma>,<dma2>,<sb_io>,<sb_irq>,<sb_dma>,<mpu_io>,<mpu_irq>
uart6850= [HW,OSS]
Format: <io>,<irq>
+ uhash_entries= [KNL,NET]
+ Set number of hash buckets for UDP/UDP-Lite connections
+
uhci-hcd.ignore_oc=
[USB] Ignore overcurrent events (default N).
Some badly-designed motherboards generate lots of
to a common usb-storage quirk flag as follows:
a = SANE_SENSE (collect more than 18 bytes
of sense data);
+ b = BAD_SENSE (don't collect more than 18
+ bytes of sense data);
c = FIX_CAPACITY (decrease the reported
device capacity by one sector);
h = CAPACITY_HEURISTICS (decrease the
vmpoff= [KNL,S390] Perform z/VM CP command after power off.
Format: <command>
+ vt.cur_default= [VT] Default cursor shape.
+ Format: 0xCCBBAA, where AA, BB, and CC are the same as
+ the parameters of the <Esc>[?A;B;Cc escape sequence;
+ see VGA-softcursor.txt. Default: 2 = underline.
+
vt.default_blu= [VT]
Format: <blue0>,<blue1>,<blue2>,...,<blue15>
Change the default blue palette of the console.
Default is 1, i.e. UTF-8 mode is enabled for all
newly opened terminals.
+ vt.global_cursor_default=
+ [VT]
+ Format=<-1|0|1>
+ Set system-wide default for whether a cursor
+ is shown on new VTs. Default is -1,
+ i.e. cursors will be created by default unless
+ overridden by individual drivers. 0 will hide
+ cursors, 1 will display them.
+
waveartist= [HW,OSS]
Format: <io>,<irq>,<dma>,<dma2>