X-Git-Url: http://ftp.safe.ca/?a=blobdiff_plain;f=Documentation%2Fkernel-parameters.txt;h=b56ea860da217368298f9e24fa0d56891e0e352d;hb=6d06b81bce5f325055e4cdf6621e827b512b7f89;hp=8c666d80f0e7713b16ff48c18e3d2c71b63058f8;hpb=46bbffad54bd48bb809f2691c1970a79a588976b;p=safe%2Fjmp%2Flinux-2.6 diff --git a/Documentation/kernel-parameters.txt b/Documentation/kernel-parameters.txt index 8c666d8..b56ea86 100644 --- a/Documentation/kernel-parameters.txt +++ b/Documentation/kernel-parameters.txt @@ -54,9 +54,11 @@ parameter is applicable: 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. + KGDB Kernel debugger support is enabled. KVM Kernel Virtual Machine support is enabled. LIBATA Libata driver is enabled LP Printer support is enabled. @@ -98,6 +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. @@ -150,6 +153,7 @@ and is between 256 and 4096 characters. It is defined in the file 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 @@ -199,10 +203,6 @@ and is between 256 and 4096 characters. It is defined in the file acpi_display_output=video See above. - acpi_early_pdc_eval [HW,ACPI] Evaluate processor _PDC methods - early. Needed on some platforms to properly - initialize the EC. - acpi_irq_balance [HW,ACPI] ACPI will balance active IRQs default in APIC mode @@ -290,9 +290,6 @@ 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. @@ -323,15 +320,12 @@ and is between 256 and 4096 characters. It is defined in the file 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 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 @@ -356,6 +350,9 @@ and is between 256 and 4096 characters. It is defined in the file 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 @@ -638,6 +635,12 @@ and is between 256 and 4096 characters. It is defined in the file 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 @@ -707,6 +710,12 @@ 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] @@ -753,9 +762,6 @@ and is between 256 and 4096 characters. It is defined in the file 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] @@ -783,8 +789,12 @@ and is between 256 and 4096 characters. It is defined in the file as early as possible in order to facilitate early boot debugging. - ftrace_dump_on_oops + ftrace_dump_on_oops[=orig_cpu] [FTRACE] will dump the trace buffers on oops. + If no parameter is passed, ftrace will dump + buffers of all CPUs, but if you pass orig_cpu, it will + dump only the buffer of the CPU that triggered the + oops. ftrace_filter=[function-list] [FTRACE] Limit the functions traced by the function @@ -1111,10 +1121,26 @@ 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 @@ -1193,7 +1219,7 @@ 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 @@ -1784,6 +1810,12 @@ and is between 256 and 4096 characters. It is defined in the file 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. @@ -2229,9 +2261,6 @@ 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. @@ -2603,6 +2632,15 @@ 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. @@ -2811,13 +2849,21 @@ 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 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.