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@@ -214,6 +214,11 @@ bytes respectively. Such letter suffixes can also be entirely omitted.
unusable. The "log_buf_len" parameter may be useful
if you need to capture more output.
+ acpi_force_table_verification [HW,ACPI]
+ Enable table checksum verification during early stage.
+ By default, this is disabled due to x86 early mapping
+ size limitation.
+
acpi_irq_balance [HW,ACPI]
ACPI will balance active IRQs
default in APIC mode
@@ -237,7 +242,15 @@ bytes respectively. Such letter suffixes can also be entirely omitted.
This feature is enabled by default.
This option allows to turn off the feature.
- acpi_no_auto_ssdt [HW,ACPI] Disable automatic loading of SSDT
+ acpi_no_static_ssdt [HW,ACPI]
+ Disable installation of static SSDTs at early boot time
+ By default, SSDTs contained in the RSDT/XSDT will be
+ installed automatically and they will appear under
+ /sys/firmware/acpi/tables.
+ This option turns off this feature.
+ Note that specifying this option does not affect
+ dynamic table installation which will install SSDT
+ tables to /sys/firmware/acpi/tables/dynamic.
acpica_no_return_repair [HW, ACPI]
Disable AML predefined validation mechanism
@@ -617,8 +630,11 @@ bytes respectively. Such letter suffixes can also be entirely omitted.
Also note the kernel might malfunction if you disable
some critical bits.
- cma=nn[MG] [ARM,KNL]
- Sets the size of kernel global memory area for contiguous
+ cma=nn[MG]@[start[MG][-end[MG]]]
+ [ARM,X86,KNL]
+ Sets the size of kernel global memory area for
+ contiguous memory allocations and optionally the
+ placement constraint by the physical address range of
memory allocations. For more information, see
include/linux/dma-contiguous.h
@@ -883,6 +899,7 @@ bytes respectively. Such letter suffixes can also be entirely omitted.
which are not unmapped.
earlycon= [KNL] Output early console device and options.
+
uart[8250],io,<addr>[,options]
uart[8250],mmio,<addr>[,options]
uart[8250],mmio32,<addr>[,options]
@@ -892,7 +909,15 @@ bytes respectively. Such letter suffixes can also be entirely omitted.
(mmio) or 32-bit (mmio32).
The options are the same as for ttyS, above.
- earlyprintk= [X86,SH,BLACKFIN,ARM]
+ pl011,<addr>
+ Start an early, polled-mode console on a pl011 serial
+ port at the specified address. The pl011 serial port
+ must already be setup and configured. Options are not
+ yet supported.
+
+ smh Use ARM semihosting calls for early console.
+
+ earlyprintk= [X86,SH,BLACKFIN,ARM,M68k]
earlyprintk=vga
earlyprintk=efi
earlyprintk=xen
@@ -1287,6 +1312,10 @@ bytes respectively. Such letter suffixes can also be entirely omitted.
for working out where the kernel is dying during
startup.
+ initcall_blacklist= [KNL] Do not execute a comma-separated list of
+ initcall functions. Useful for debugging built-in
+ modules and initcalls.
+
initrd= [BOOT] Specify the location of the initial ramdisk
inport.irq= [HW] Inport (ATI XL and Microsoft) busmouse driver
@@ -2889,6 +2918,13 @@ bytes respectively. Such letter suffixes can also be entirely omitted.
[KNL, SMP] Set scheduler's default relax_domain_level.
See Documentation/cgroups/cpusets.txt.
+ relative_sleep_states=
+ [SUSPEND] Use sleep state labeling where the deepest
+ state available other than hibernation is always "mem".
+ Format: { "0" | "1" }
+ 0 -- Traditional sleep state labels.
+ 1 -- Relative sleep state labels.
+
reserve= [KNL,BUGS] Force the kernel to ignore some iomem area
reservetop= [X86-32]
@@ -3461,7 +3497,7 @@ bytes respectively. Such letter suffixes can also be entirely omitted.
the allocated input device; If set to 0, video driver
will only send out the event without touching backlight
brightness level.
- default: 1
+ default: 0
virtio_mmio.device=
[VMMIO] Memory mapped virtio (platform) device.