X-Git-Url: http://ftp.safe.ca/?a=blobdiff_plain;f=Documentation%2Fkernel-parameters.txt;h=1808f1157f30ae5a187f4a8783d973875cd675dd;hb=254c8c2dbf0e06a560a5814eb90cb628adb2de66;hp=21a99474df93be0f85a76a6a15f10494f73e983c;hpb=77a7f2e94e6998e307917fe63fa4b6d5162d44e9;p=safe%2Fjmp%2Flinux-2.6 diff --git a/Documentation/kernel-parameters.txt b/Documentation/kernel-parameters.txt index 21a9947..1808f11 100644 --- a/Documentation/kernel-parameters.txt +++ b/Documentation/kernel-parameters.txt @@ -58,6 +58,7 @@ parameter is applicable: ISAPNP ISA PnP code is enabled. ISDN Appropriate ISDN support is enabled. JOY Appropriate joystick support is enabled. + KGDB Kernel debugger support is enabled. KVM Kernel Virtual Machine support is enabled. LIBATA Libata driver is enabled LP Printer support is enabled. @@ -99,6 +100,7 @@ parameter is applicable: SWSUSP Software suspend (hibernation) is enabled. SUSPEND System suspend states are enabled. FTRACE Function tracing enabled. + TPM TPM drivers are enabled. TS Appropriate touchscreen support is enabled. UMS USB Mass Storage support is enabled. USB USB support is enabled. @@ -143,14 +145,14 @@ and is between 256 and 4096 characters. It is defined in the file acpi= [HW,ACPI,X86] Advanced Configuration and Power Interface - Format: { force | off | ht | strict | noirq | rsdt } + Format: { force | off | strict | noirq | rsdt } force -- enable ACPI if default was off off -- disable ACPI if default was on noirq -- do not use ACPI for IRQ routing - ht -- run only enough ACPI to enable Hyper Threading strict -- Be less tolerant of platforms that are not strictly ACPI specification compliant. rsdt -- prefer RSDT over (default) XSDT + copy_dsdt -- copy DSDT to memory See also Documentation/power/pm.txt, pci=noacpi @@ -287,9 +289,6 @@ and is between 256 and 4096 characters. It is defined in the file advansys= [HW,SCSI] See header of drivers/scsi/advansys.c. - advwdt= [HW,WDT] Advantech WDT - Format: , - aedsp16= [HW,OSS] Audio Excel DSP 16 Format: ,,,,, See also header of sound/oss/aedsp16.c. @@ -324,6 +323,8 @@ and is between 256 and 4096 characters. It is defined in the file they are unmapped. Otherwise they are flushed before they will be reused, which is a lot of faster + off - do not initialize any AMD IOMMU found in + the system amijoy.map= [HW,JOY] Amiga joystick support Map of devices attached to JOY0DAT and JOY1DAT @@ -708,6 +709,12 @@ and is between 256 and 4096 characters. It is defined in the file The VGA output is eventually overwritten by the real console. + ekgdboc= [X86,KGDB] Allow early kernel console debugging + ekgdboc=kbd + + This is desgined to be used in conjunction with + the boot argument: earlyprintk=vga + eata= [HW,SCSI] edd= [EDD] @@ -750,13 +757,14 @@ and is between 256 and 4096 characters. It is defined in the file Default value is 0. Value can be changed at runtime via /selinux/enforce. + erst_disable [ACPI] + Disable Error Record Serialization Table (ERST) + support. + ether= [HW,NET] Ethernet cards parameters This option is obsoleted by the "netdev=" option, which has equivalent usage. See its documentation for details. - eurwdt= [HW,WDT] Eurotech CPU-1220/1410 onboard watchdog. - Format: [,] - failslab= fail_page_alloc= fail_make_request=[KNL] @@ -847,6 +855,11 @@ and is between 256 and 4096 characters. It is defined in the file hd= [EIDE] (E)IDE hard drive subsystem geometry Format: ,, + hest_disable [ACPI] + Disable Hardware Error Source Table (HEST) support; + corresponding firmware-first mode error processing + logic will be disabled. + highmem=nn[KMG] [KNL,BOOT] forces the highmem zone to have an exact size of . This works even on boxes that have no highmem otherwise. This also works to reduce highmem @@ -1116,10 +1129,26 @@ and is between 256 and 4096 characters. It is defined in the file use the HighMem zone if it exists, and the Normal zone if it does not. - kgdboc= [HW] kgdb over consoles. - Requires a tty driver that supports console polling. - (only serial supported for now) - Format: [,baud] + kgdbdbgp= [KGDB,HW] kgdb over EHCI usb debug port. + Format: [,poll interval] + The controller # is the number of the ehci usb debug + port as it is probed via PCI. The poll interval is + optional and is the number seconds in between + each poll cycle to the debug port in case you need + the functionality for interrupting the kernel with + gdb or control-c on the dbgp connection. When + not using this parameter you use sysrq-g to break into + the kernel debugger. + + kgdboc= [KGDB,HW] kgdb over consoles. + Requires a tty driver that supports console polling, + or a supported polling keyboard driver (non-usb). + Serial only format: [,baud] + keyboard only format: kbd + keyboard and serial format: kbd,[,baud] + + kgdbwait [KGDB] Stop kernel execution and enter the + kernel debugger at the earliest opportunity. kmac= [MIPS] korina ethernet MAC address. Configure the RouterBoard 532 series on-chip @@ -1198,7 +1227,7 @@ and is between 256 and 4096 characters. It is defined in the file 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 @@ -1231,6 +1260,8 @@ and is between 256 and 4096 characters. It is defined in the file * nohrst, nosrst, norst: suppress hard, soft and both resets. + * dump_id: dump IDENTIFY data. + If there are multiple matching configurations changing the same attribute, the last one is used. @@ -2240,9 +2271,6 @@ and is between 256 and 4096 characters. It is defined in the file sched_debug [KNL] Enables verbose scheduler debug messages. - sc1200wdt= [HW,WDT] SC1200 WDT (watchdog) driver - Format: [,[,]] - scsi_debug_*= [SCSI] See drivers/scsi/scsi_debug.c. @@ -2614,6 +2642,15 @@ and is between 256 and 4096 characters. It is defined in the file tp720= [HW,PS2] + tpm_suspend_pcr=[HW,TPM] + Format: integer pcr id + Specify that at suspend time, the tpm driver + should extend the specified pcr with zeros, + as a workaround for some chips which fail to + flush the last written pcr on TPM_SaveState. + This will guarantee that all the other pcrs + are saved. + trace_buf_size=nn[KMG] [FTRACE] will set tracing buffer size. @@ -2822,8 +2859,10 @@ and is between 256 and 4096 characters. It is defined in the file wd7000= [HW,SCSI] See header of drivers/scsi/wd7000.c. - wdt= [WDT] Watchdog - See Documentation/watchdog/wdt.txt. + watchdog timers [HW,WDT] For information on watchdog timers, + see Documentation/watchdog/watchdog-parameters.txt + or other driver-specific files in the + Documentation/watchdog/ directory. x2apic_phys [X86-64,APIC] Use x2apic physical mode instead of default x2apic cluster mode on platforms