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| author | Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu> | 2008-07-19 00:50:34 +0400 |
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| committer | Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu> | 2008-07-19 00:50:34 +0400 |
| commit | a208f37a465e222218974ab20a31b42b7b4893b2 (patch) | |
| tree | 77c6acdd4be32024330a14f2618b814126ce7a20 /Documentation/kernel-parameters.txt | |
| parent | 511d9d34183662aada3890883e860b151d707e22 (diff) | |
| parent | 5b664cb235e97afbf34db9c4d77f08ebd725335e (diff) | |
| download | linux-a208f37a465e222218974ab20a31b42b7b4893b2.tar.xz | |
Merge branch 'linus' into x86/x2apic
Diffstat (limited to 'Documentation/kernel-parameters.txt')
| -rw-r--r-- | Documentation/kernel-parameters.txt | 28 |
1 files changed, 23 insertions, 5 deletions
diff --git a/Documentation/kernel-parameters.txt b/Documentation/kernel-parameters.txt index 88b08acf2ff2..556b4187d016 100644 --- a/Documentation/kernel-parameters.txt +++ b/Documentation/kernel-parameters.txt @@ -147,10 +147,14 @@ and is between 256 and 4096 characters. It is defined in the file default: 0 acpi_sleep= [HW,ACPI] Sleep options - Format: { s3_bios, s3_mode, s3_beep } + Format: { s3_bios, s3_mode, s3_beep, old_ordering } See Documentation/power/video.txt for s3_bios and s3_mode. s3_beep is for debugging; it makes the PC's speaker beep as soon as the kernel's real-mode entry point is called. + old_ordering causes the ACPI 1.0 ordering of the _PTS + control method, wrt putting devices into low power + states, to be enforced (the ACPI 2.0 ordering of _PTS is + used by default). acpi_sci= [HW,ACPI] ACPI System Control Interrupt trigger mode Format: { level | edge | high | low } @@ -571,6 +575,8 @@ and is between 256 and 4096 characters. It is defined in the file debug_objects [KNL] Enable object debugging + debugpat [X86] Enable PAT debugging + decnet.addr= [HW,NET] Format: <area>[,<node>] See also Documentation/networking/decnet.txt. @@ -756,9 +762,6 @@ and is between 256 and 4096 characters. It is defined in the file hd= [EIDE] (E)IDE hard drive subsystem geometry Format: <cyl>,<head>,<sect> - hd?= [HW] (E)IDE subsystem - hd?lun= See Documentation/ide/ide.txt. - highmem=nn[KMG] [KNL,BOOT] forces the highmem zone to have an exact size of <nn>. This works even on boxes that have no highmem otherwise. This also works to reduce highmem @@ -819,7 +822,7 @@ and is between 256 and 4096 characters. It is defined in the file See Documentation/ide/ide.txt. idle= [X86] - Format: idle=poll or idle=mwait + Format: idle=poll or idle=mwait, idle=halt, idle=nomwait Poll forces a polling idle loop that can slightly improves the performance of waking up a idle CPU, but will use a lot of power and make the system run hot. Not recommended. @@ -827,6 +830,9 @@ and is between 256 and 4096 characters. It is defined in the file to not use it because it doesn't save as much power as a normal idle loop use the MONITOR/MWAIT idle loop anyways. Performance should be the same as idle=poll. + idle=halt. Halt is forced to be used for CPU idle. + In such case C2/C3 won't be used again. + idle=nomwait. Disable mwait for CPU C-states ide-pci-generic.all-generic-ide [HW] (E)IDE subsystem Claim all unknown PCI IDE storage controllers. @@ -1242,6 +1248,11 @@ and is between 256 and 4096 characters. It is defined in the file mtdparts= [MTD] See drivers/mtd/cmdlinepart.c. + mtdset= [ARM] + ARM/S3C2412 JIVE boot control + + See arch/arm/mach-s3c2412/mach-jive.c + mtouchusb.raw_coordinates= [HW] Make the MicroTouch USB driver use raw coordinates ('y', default) or cooked coordinates ('n') @@ -1536,6 +1547,9 @@ and is between 256 and 4096 characters. It is defined in the file Use with caution as certain devices share address decoders between ROMs and other resources. + norom [X86-32,X86_64] Do not assign address space to + expansion ROMs that do not already have + BIOS assigned address ranges. irqmask=0xMMMM [X86-32] Set a bit mask of IRQs allowed to be assigned automatically to PCI devices. You can make the kernel exclude IRQs of your ISA cards @@ -1611,6 +1625,10 @@ and is between 256 and 4096 characters. It is defined in the file Format: { parport<nr> | timid | 0 } See also Documentation/parport.txt. + pmtmr= [X86] Manual setup of pmtmr I/O Port. + Override pmtimer IOPort with a hex value. + e.g. pmtmr=0x508 + pnpacpi= [ACPI] { off } |