APIC APIC support is enabled.
APM Advanced Power Management support is enabled.
AX25 Appropriate AX.25 support is enabled.
+ BLACKFIN Blackfin architecture is enabled.
DRM Direct Rendering Management support is enabled.
EDD BIOS Enhanced Disk Drive Services (EDD) is enabled
EFI EFI Partitioning (GPT) is enabled
PARIDE The ParIDE (parallel port IDE) subsystem is enabled.
PARISC The PA-RISC architecture is enabled.
PCI PCI bus support is enabled.
+ PCIE PCI Express support is enabled.
PCMCIA The PCMCIA subsystem is enabled.
PNP Plug & Play support is enabled.
PPC PowerPC architecture 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
Documentation/scsi/.
+ SECURITY Different security models are enabled.
SELINUX SELinux support is enabled.
SERIAL Serial support is enabled.
SH SuperH architecture is enabled.
acpi_irq_isa= [HW,ACPI] If irq_balance, mark listed IRQs used by ISA
Format: <irq>,<irq>...
+ acpi_no_auto_ssdt [HW,ACPI] Disable automatic loading of SSDT
+
acpi_os_name= [HW,ACPI] Tell ACPI BIOS the name of the OS
Format: To spoof as Windows 98: ="Microsoft Windows"
Warning: Many of these options can produce a lot of
output and make your system unusable. Be very careful.
-
- acpi_fake_ecdt [HW,ACPI] Workaround failure due to BIOS lacking ECDT
-
acpi_pm_good [X86-32,X86-64]
Override the pmtimer bug detection: force the kernel
to assume that this machine's pmtimer latches its value
apm= [APM] Advanced Power Management
See header of arch/i386/kernel/apm.c.
- applicom= [HW]
- Format: <mem>,<irq>
-
arcrimi= [HW,NET] ARCnet - "RIM I" (entirely mem-mapped) cards
Format: <io>,<irq>,<nodeID>
Format: <io>,<irq>,<mode>
See header of drivers/net/hamradio/baycom_ser_hdx.c.
- blkmtd_device= [HW,MTD]
- blkmtd_erasesz=
- blkmtd_ro=
- blkmtd_bs=
- blkmtd_count=
+ boot_delay= Milliseconds to delay each printk during boot.
+ Values larger than 10 seconds (10000) are changed to
+ no delay (0).
+ Format: integer
bttv.card= [HW,V4L] bttv (bt848 + bt878 based grabber cards)
bttv.radio= Most important insmod options are available as
possible to determine what the correct size should be.
This option provides an override for these situations.
+ capability.disable=
+ [SECURITY] Disable capabilities. This would normally
+ be used only if an alternative security model is to be
+ configured. Potentially dangerous and should only be
+ used if you are entirely sure of the consequences.
+
chandev= [HW,NET] Generic channel device initialisation
checkreqprot [SELINUX] Set initial checkreqprot flag value.
over the 8254 in addition to over the IO-APIC. The
kernel tries to set a sensible default.
- hpet= [X86-32,HPET] option to disable HPET and use PIT.
- Format: disable
+ hpet= [X86-32,HPET] option to control HPET usage
+ Format: { enable (default) | disable | force }
+ disable: disable HPET and use PIT instead
+ force: allow force enabled of undocumented chips (ICH4,
+ VIA, nVidia)
com20020= [HW,NET] ARCnet - COM20020 chipset
Format:
UART at the specified I/O port or MMIO address.
The options are the same as for ttyS, above.
+ no_console_suspend
+ [HW] Never suspend the console
+ Disable suspending of consoles during suspend and
+ hibernate operations. Once disabled, debugging
+ messages can reach various consoles while the rest
+ of the system is being put to sleep (ie, while
+ debugging driver suspend/resume hooks). This may
+ not work reliably with all consoles, but is known
+ to work with serial and VGA consoles.
+
cpcihp_generic= [HW,PCI] Generic port I/O CompactPCI driver
Format:
<first_slot>,<last_slot>,<port>,<enum_bit>[,<debug>]
- cpia_pp= [HW,PPT]
- Format: { parport<nr> | auto | none }
-
crashkernel=nn[KMG]@ss[KMG]
[KNL] Reserve a chunk of physical memory to
hold a kernel to switch to with kexec on panic.
+ crashkernel=range1:size1[,range2:size2,...][@offset]
+ [KNL] Same as above, but depends on the memory
+ in the running system. The syntax of range is
+ start-[end] where start and end are both
+ a memory unit (amount[KMG]). See also
+ Documentation/kdump/kdump.txt for a example.
+
cs4232= [HW,OSS]
Format: <io>,<irq>,<dma>,<dma2>,<mpuio>,<mpuirq>
cs89x0_media= [HW,NET]
Format: { rj45 | aui | bnc }
- cyclades= [HW,SERIAL] Cyclades multi-serial port adapter.
-
dasd= [HW,NET]
See header of drivers/s390/block/dasd_devmap.c.
Format: <area>[,<node>]
See also Documentation/networking/decnet.txt.
- default_blu= [VT]
+ vt.default_blu= [VT]
Format: <blue0>,<blue1>,<blue2>,...,<blue15>
Change the default blue palette of the console.
This is a 16-member array composed of values
ranging from 0-255.
- default_grn= [VT]
+ vt.default_grn= [VT]
Format: <green0>,<green1>,<green2>,...,<green15>
Change the default green palette of the console.
This is a 16-member array composed of values
ranging from 0-255.
- default_red= [VT]
+ vt.default_red= [VT]
Format: <red0>,<red1>,<red2>,...,<red15>
Change the default red palette of the console.
This is a 16-member array composed of values
ranging from 0-255.
- default_utf8= [VT]
+ vt.default_utf8=
+ [VT]
Format=<0|1>
Set system-wide default UTF-8 mode for all tty's.
- Default is 0 and by setting to 1, it enables UTF-8
- mode for all newly opened or allocated terminals.
+ Default is 1, i.e. UTF-8 mode is enabled for all
+ newly opened terminals.
dhash_entries= [KNL]
Set number of hash buckets for dentry cache.
See drivers/char/README.epca and
Documentation/digiepca.txt.
- dmascc= [HW,AX25,SERIAL] AX.25 Z80SCC driver with DMA
- support available.
- Format: <io_dev0>[,<io_dev1>[,..<io_dev32>]]
-
dmasound= [HW,OSS] Sound subsystem buffers
dscc4.setup= [NET]
dtc3181e= [HW,SCSI]
- earlyprintk= [X86-32,X86-64,SH]
+ earlyprintk= [X86-32,X86-64,SH,BLACKFIN]
earlyprintk=vga
earlyprintk=serial[,ttySn[,baudrate]]
eata= [HW,SCSI]
- ec_intr= [HW,ACPI] ACPI Embedded Controller interrupt mode
- Format: <int>
- 0: polling mode
- non-0: interrupt mode (default)
-
- eda= [HW,PS2]
-
- edb= [HW,PS2]
-
edd= [EDD]
Format: {"of[f]" | "sk[ipmbr]"}
See comment in arch/i386/boot/edd.S
- eicon= [HW,ISDN]
- Format: <id>,<membase>,<irq>
-
eisa_irq_edge= [PARISC,HW]
See header of drivers/parisc/eisa.c.
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.
i8042.direct [HW] Put keyboard port into non-translated mode
i8042.dumbkbd [HW] Pretend that controller can only read data from
inttest= [IA64]
+ intel_iommu= [DMAR] Intel IOMMU driver (DMAR) option
+ off
+ Disable intel iommu driver.
+ igfx_off [Default Off]
+ By default, gfx is mapped as normal device. If a gfx
+ device has a dedicated DMAR unit, the DMAR unit is
+ bypassed by not enabling DMAR with this option. In
+ this case, gfx device will use physical address for
+ DMA.
+ forcedac [x86_64]
+ With this option iommu will not optimize to look
+ for io virtual address below 32 bit forcing dual
+ address cycle on pci bus for cards supporting greater
+ than 32 bit addressing. The default is to look
+ for translation below 32 bit and if not available
+ then look in the higher range.
+
io7= [HW] IO7 for Marvel based alpha systems
See comment before marvel_specify_io7 in
arch/alpha/kernel/core_marvel.c.
lapic_timer_c2_ok [X86-32,x86-64,APIC] trust the local apic timer in
C2 power state.
- lasi= [HW,SCSI] PARISC LASI driver for the 53c700 chip
- Format: addr:<io>,irq:<irq>
+ libata.dma= [LIBATA] DMA control
+ libata.dma=0 Disable all PATA and SATA DMA
+ libata.dma=1 PATA and SATA Disk DMA only
+ libata.dma=2 ATAPI (CDROM) DMA only
+ libata.dma=4 Compact Flash DMA only
+ Combinations also work, so libata.dma=3 enables DMA
+ for disks and CDROMs, but not CFs.
+
+ libata.noacpi [LIBATA] Disables use of ACPI in libata suspend/resume
+ when set.
+ Format: <int>
load_ramdisk= [RAM] List of ramdisks to load from floppy
See Documentation/ramdisk.txt.
n must be a power of two. The default size
is set in the kernel config file.
+ logo.nologo [FB] Disables display of the built-in Linux logo.
+ This may be used to provide more screen space for
+ kernel log messages and is useful when debugging
+ kernel boot problems.
+
lp=0 [LP] Specify parallel ports to use, e.g,
lp=port[,port...] lp=none,parport0 (lp0 not configured, lp1 uses
lp=reset first parallel port). 'lp=0' disables the
Format: <1-256>
maxcpus= [SMP] Maximum number of processors that an SMP kernel
- should make use of.
- Using "nosmp" or "maxcpus=0" will disable SMP
- entirely (the MPS table probe still happens, though).
- A command-line option of "maxcpus=<NUM>", where <NUM>
- is an integer greater than 0, limits the maximum number
- of CPUs activated in SMP mode to <NUM>.
- Using "maxcpus=1" on an SMP kernel is the trivial
- case of an SMP kernel with only one CPU.
+ should make use of. maxcpus=n : n >= 0 limits the
+ kernel to using 'n' processors. n=0 is a special case,
+ it is equivalent to "nosmp", which also disables
+ the IO APIC.
max_addr=[KMG] [KNL,BOOT,ia64] All physical memory greater than or
equal to this physical address is ignored.
mce [X86-32] Machine Check Exception
+ mce=option [X86-64] See Documentation/x86_64/boot-options.txt
+
md= [HW] RAID subsystems devices and level
See Documentation/md.txt.
meye.*= [HW] Set MotionEye Camera parameters
See Documentation/video4linux/meye.txt.
+ mfgpt_irq= [IA-32] Specify the IRQ to use for the
+ Multi-Function General Purpose Timers on AMD Geode
+ platforms.
+
mga= [HW,DRM]
mousedev.tap_time=
[NFS] set the maximum lifetime for idmapper cache
entries.
+ nfs.enable_ino64=
+ [NFS] enable 64-bit inode numbers.
+ If zero, the NFS client will fake up a 32-bit inode
+ number for the readdir() and stat() syscalls instead
+ of returning the full 64-bit number.
+ The default is to return 64-bit inode numbers.
+
nmi_watchdog= [KNL,BUGS=X86-32] Debugging features for SMP kernels
no387 [BUGS=X86-32] Tells the kernel to use the 387 maths
emulation library even if a 387 maths coprocessor
is present.
- noacpi [LIBATA] Disables use of ACPI in libata suspend/resume
- when set.
- Format: <int>
-
noaliencache [MM, NUMA, SLAB] Disables the allocation of alien
caches in the slab allocator. Saves per-node memory,
but will impact performance.
noapic [SMP,APIC] Tells the kernel to not make use of any
IOAPICs that may be present in the system.
- noasync [HW,M68K] Disables async and sync negotiation for
- all devices.
-
nobats [PPC] Do not use BATs for mapping kernel lowmem
on "Classic" PPC cores.
nomce [X86-32] Machine Check Exception
+ nomfgpt [X86-32] Disable Multi-Function General Purpose
+ Timer usage (for AMD Geode machines).
+
noreplace-paravirt [X86-32,PV_OPS] Don't patch paravirt_ops
noreplace-smp [X86-32,SMP] Don't replace SMP instructions
nosep [BUGS=X86-32] Disables x86 SYSENTER/SYSEXIT support.
- nosmp [SMP] Tells an SMP kernel to act as a UP kernel.
+ nosmp [SMP] Tells an SMP kernel to act as a UP kernel,
+ and disable the IO APIC. legacy for "maxcpus=0".
nosoftlockup [KNL] Disable the soft-lockup detector.
Mechanism 1.
conf2 [X86-32] Force use of PCI Configuration
Mechanism 2.
+ noaer [PCIE] If the PCIEAER kernel config parameter is
+ enabled, this kernel boot option can be used to
+ disable the use of PCIE advanced error reporting.
+ nodomains [PCI] Disable support for multiple PCI
+ root domains (aka PCI segments, in ACPI-speak).
nommconf [X86-32,X86_64] Disable use of MMCONFIG for PCI
Configuration
nomsi [MSI] If the PCI_MSI kernel config parameter is
IRQ routing is enabled.
noacpi [X86-32] Do not use ACPI for IRQ routing
or for PCI scanning.
+ use_crs [X86-32] Use _CRS for PCI resource
+ allocation.
routeirq Do IRQ routing for all PCI devices.
This is normally done in pci_enable_device(),
so this option is a temporary workaround
Param: "schedule" - profile schedule points.
Param: <number> - step/bucket size as a power of 2 for
statistical time based profiling.
- Param: "sleep" - profile D-state sleeping (millisecs)
+ Param: "sleep" - profile D-state sleeping (millisecs).
+ Requires CONFIG_SCHEDSTATS
+ Param: "kvm" - profile VM exits.
processor.max_cstate= [HW,ACPI]
Limit processor to maximum C-state
pt. [PARIDE]
See Documentation/paride.txt.
+ pty.legacy_count=
+ [KNL] Number of legacy pty's. Overwrites compiled-in
+ default number.
+
quiet [KNL] Disable most log messages
r128= [HW,DRM]
raid= [HW,RAID]
See Documentation/md.txt.
- ramdisk= [RAM] Sizes of RAM disks in kilobytes [deprecated]
- See Documentation/ramdisk.txt.
-
ramdisk_blocksize= [RAM]
See Documentation/ramdisk.txt.
ramdisk_size= [RAM] Sizes of RAM disks in kilobytes
- New name for the ramdisk parameter.
See Documentation/ramdisk.txt.
rcu.blimit= [KNL,BOOT] Set maximum number of finished
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
sa1100ir [NET]
See drivers/net/irda/sa1100_ir.c.
- sb= [HW,OSS]
- Format: <io>,<irq>,<dma>,<dma2>
-
sbni= [NET] Granch SBNI12 leased line adapter
sc1200wdt= [HW,WDT] SC1200 WDT (watchdog) driver
serialnumber [BUGS=X86-32]
- sg_def_reserved_size= [SCSI]
-
shapers= [NET]
Maximal number of shapers.
thash_entries= [KNL,NET]
Set number of hash buckets for TCP connection
+ thermal.act= [HW,ACPI]
+ -1: disable all active trip points in all thermal zones
+ <degrees C>: override all lowest active trip points
+
+ thermal.crt= [HW,ACPI]
+ -1: disable all critical trip points in all thermal zones
+ <degrees C>: lower all critical trip points
+
thermal.nocrt= [HW,ACPI]
Set to disable actions on ACPI thermal zone
critical and hot trip points.
Format:
<io>,<irq>,<dma>,<dma2>,<sb_io>,<sb_irq>,<sb_dma>,<mpu_io>,<mpu_irq>
- tsdev.xres= [TS] Horizontal screen resolution.
- tsdev.yres= [TS] Vertical screen resolution.
-
turbografx.map[2|3]= [HW,JOY]
TurboGraFX parallel port interface
Format:
norandmaps Don't use address space randomization
Equivalent to echo 0 > /proc/sys/kernel/randomize_va_space
- unwind_debug=N N > 0 will enable dwarf2 unwinder debugging
- This is useful to get more information why
- you got a "dwarf2 unwinder stuck"
-
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