IMA Integrity measurement architecture is enabled.
IOSCHED More than one I/O scheduler is enabled.
IP_PNP IP DHCP, BOOTP, or RARP is enabled.
+ IPV6 IPv6 support is enabled.
ISAPNP ISA PnP code is enabled.
ISDN Appropriate ISDN support is enabled.
JOY Appropriate joystick 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
aic79xx= [HW,SCSI]
See Documentation/scsi/aic79xx.txt.
+ alignment= [KNL,ARM]
+ Allow the default userspace alignment fault handler
+ behaviour to be specified. Bit 0 enables warnings,
+ bit 1 enables fixups, and bit 2 sends a segfault.
+
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) [default]
- share - put every device behind one IOMMU into the
- same protection domain
fullflush - enable flushing of IO/TLB entries when
they are unmapped. Otherwise they are
flushed before they will be reused, which
Change the amount of debugging information output
when initialising the APIC and IO-APIC components.
+ autoconf= [IPV6]
+ See Documentation/networking/ipv6.txt.
+
+ 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.
See drivers/char/README.epca and
Documentation/serial/digiepca.txt.
+ disable= [IPV6]
+ See Documentation/networking/ipv6.txt.
+
+ disable_ipv6= [IPV6]
+ See Documentation/networking/ipv6.txt.
+
disable_mtrr_cleanup [X86]
The kernel tries to adjust MTRR layout from continuous
to discrete, to make X server driver able to add WB
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
libata.force= [LIBATA] Force configurations. The format is comma
separated list of "[ID:]VAL" where ID is
- PORT[:DEVICE]. PORT and DEVICE are decimal numbers
+ PORT[.DEVICE]. PORT and DEVICE are decimal numbers
matching port, link or device. Basically, it matches
the ATA ID string printed on console by libata. If
the whole ID part is omitted, the last PORT and DEVICE
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
nomfgpt [X86-32] Disable Multi-Function General Purpose
Timer usage (for AMD Geode machines).
+ nopat [X86] Disable PAT (page attribute table extension of
+ pagetables) support.
+
norandmaps Don't use address space randomization. Equivalent to
echo 0 > /proc/sys/kernel/randomize_va_space
purges which is reported from either PAL_VM_SUMMARY or
SAL PALO.
+ nr_cpus= [SMP] Maximum number of processors that an SMP kernel
+ could support. nr_cpus=n : n >= 1 limits the kernel to
+ supporting 'n' processors. Later in runtime you can not
+ use hotplug cpu feature to put more cpu back to online.
+ just like you compile the kernel NR_CPUS=n
+
nr_uarts= [SERIAL] maximum number of UARTs to be registered.
numa_zonelist_order= [KNL, BOOT] Select zonelist order for NUMA.
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>
IRQ routing is enabled.
noacpi [X86] Do not use ACPI for IRQ routing
or for PCI scanning.
- use_crs [X86] Use _CRS for PCI resource
- allocation.
+ use_crs [X86] Use PCI host bridge window information
+ from ACPI. On BIOSes from 2008 or later, this
+ is enabled by default. If you need to use this,
+ please report a bug.
+ nocrs [X86] Ignore PCI host bridge windows from ACPI.
+ If you need to use this, please report a bug.
routeirq Do IRQ routing for all PCI devices.
This is normally done in pci_enable_device(),
so this option is a temporary workaround
force Enable ASPM even on devices that claim not to support it.
WARNING: Forcing ASPM on may cause system lockups.
+ pcie_pme= [PCIE,PM] Native PCIe PME signaling options:
+ off Do not use native PCIe PME signaling.
+ force Use native PCIe PME signaling even if the BIOS refuses
+ to allow the kernel to control the relevant PCIe config
+ registers.
+ nomsi Do not use MSI for native PCIe PME signaling (this makes
+ all PCIe root ports use INTx for everything).
+
pcmv= [HW,PCMCIA] BadgePAD 4
pd. [PARIDE]
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>]]
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
medium is write-protected).
Example: quirks=0419:aaf5:rl,0421:0433:rc
+ userpte=
+ [X86] Flags controlling user PTE allocations.
+
+ nohigh = do not allocate PTE pages in
+ HIGHMEM regardless of setting
+ of CONFIG_HIGHPTE.
+
vdso= [X86,SH]
vdso=2: enable compat VDSO (default with COMPAT_VDSO)
vdso=1: enable VDSO (default)
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>
default x2apic cluster mode on platforms
supporting x2apic.
+ x86_mrst_timer= [X86-32,APBT]
+ Choose timer option for x86 Moorestown MID platform.
+ Two valid options are apbt timer only and lapic timer
+ plus one apbt timer for broadcast timer.
+ x86_mrst_timer=apbt_only | lapic_and_apbt
+
xd= [HW,XT] Original XT pre-IDE (RLL encoded) disks.
xd_geo= See header of drivers/block/xd.c.