X-Git-Url: https://err.no/cgi-bin/gitweb.cgi?a=blobdiff_plain;f=Documentation%2Fkernel-parameters.txt;h=533e67febf813a18d6af172ac40fcf7c9e0def88;hb=eddeb0e2d863e3941d8768e70cb50c6120e61fa0;hp=8fd5aa40585ff8419cc730104079ddd61b5ccb8e;hpb=d870ec7281d8429ab17d2e0324f4d8ca3f3de62d;p=linux-2.6 diff --git a/Documentation/kernel-parameters.txt b/Documentation/kernel-parameters.txt index 8fd5aa4058..256a216250 100644 --- a/Documentation/kernel-parameters.txt +++ b/Documentation/kernel-parameters.txt @@ -138,7 +138,7 @@ 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. - See also Documentation/pm.txt, pci=noacpi + See also Documentation/power/pm.txt, pci=noacpi acpi_apic_instance= [ACPI, IOAPIC] Format: @@ -147,8 +147,10 @@ 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 } - See Documentation/power/video.txt + Format: { s3_bios, s3_mode, s3_beep } + 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. acpi_sci= [HW,ACPI] ACPI System Control Interrupt trigger mode Format: { level | edge | high | low } @@ -168,11 +170,6 @@ and is between 256 and 4096 characters. It is defined in the file acpi_irq_isa= [HW,ACPI] If irq_balance, mark listed IRQs used by ISA Format: ,... - acpi_new_pts_ordering [HW,ACPI] - Enforce the ACPI 2.0 ordering of the _PTS control - method wrt putting devices into low power states - default: pre ACPI 2.0 ordering of _PTS - acpi_no_auto_ssdt [HW,ACPI] Disable automatic loading of SSDT acpi_os_name= [HW,ACPI] Tell ACPI BIOS the name of the OS @@ -378,6 +375,10 @@ and is between 256 and 4096 characters. It is defined in the file ccw_timeout_log [S390] See Documentation/s390/CommonIO for details. + cgroup_disable= [KNL] Disable a particular controller + Format: {name of the controller(s) to disable} + {Currently supported controllers - "memory"} + checkreqprot [SELINUX] Set initial checkreqprot flag value. Format: { "0" | "1" } See security/selinux/Kconfig help text. @@ -707,7 +708,7 @@ and is between 256 and 4096 characters. It is defined in the file Format: ,, hd?= [HW] (E)IDE subsystem - hd?lun= See Documentation/ide.txt. + hd?lun= See Documentation/ide/ide.txt. highmem=nn[KMG] [KNL,BOOT] forces the highmem zone to have an exact size of . This works even on boxes that have no @@ -730,6 +731,8 @@ and is between 256 and 4096 characters. It is defined in the file (Don't attempt to blink the leds) i8042.noaux [HW] Don't check for auxiliary (== mouse) port i8042.nokbd [HW] Don't check/create keyboard port + i8042.noloop [HW] Disable the AUX Loopback command while probing + for the AUX port i8042.nomux [HW] Don't check presence of an active multiplexing controller i8042.nopnp [HW] Don't use ACPIPnP / PnPBIOS to discover KBD/AUX @@ -760,15 +763,15 @@ and is between 256 and 4096 characters. It is defined in the file Format: [,[,[,]]] ide= [HW] (E)IDE subsystem - Format: ide=nodma or ide=doubler or ide=reverse - See Documentation/ide.txt. + Format: ide=nodma or ide=doubler + See Documentation/ide/ide.txt. ide?= [HW] (E)IDE subsystem - Format: ide?=noprobe or chipset specific parameters. - See Documentation/ide.txt. + Format: ide?=ata66 or chipset specific parameters. + See Documentation/ide/ide.txt. idebus= [HW] (E)IDE subsystem - VLB/PCI bus speed - See Documentation/ide.txt. + See Documentation/ide/ide.txt. idle= [X86] Format: idle=poll or idle=mwait @@ -809,6 +812,19 @@ and is between 256 and 4096 characters. It is defined in the file inttest= [IA64] + iommu= [x86] + off + force + noforce + biomerge + panic + nopanic + merge + nomerge + forcesac + soft + + intel_iommu= [DMAR] Intel IOMMU driver (DMAR) option off Disable intel iommu driver. @@ -841,7 +857,7 @@ and is between 256 and 4096 characters. It is defined in the file arch/alpha/kernel/core_marvel.c. ip= [IP_PNP] - See Documentation/nfsroot.txt. + See Documentation/filesystems/nfsroot.txt. ip2= [HW] Set IO/IRQ pairs for up to 4 IntelliPort boards See comment before ip2_setup() in @@ -925,6 +941,11 @@ and is between 256 and 4096 characters. It is defined in the file kstack=N [X86-32,X86-64] Print N words from the kernel stack in oops dumps. + kgdboc= [HW] kgdb over consoles. + Requires a tty driver that supports console polling. + (only serial suported for now) + Format: [,baud] + l2cr= [PPC] lapic [X86-32,APIC] Enable the local APIC even if BIOS @@ -945,6 +966,41 @@ and is between 256 and 4096 characters. It is defined in the file when set. Format: + 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 + 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 + values are used. If ID hasn't been specified yet, the + configuration applies to all ports, links and devices. + + If only DEVICE is omitted, the parameter applies to + the port and all links and devices behind it. DEVICE + number of 0 either selects the first device or the + first fan-out link behind PMP device. It does not + select the host link. DEVICE number of 15 selects the + host link and device attached to it. + + The VAL specifies the configuration to force. As long + as there's no ambiguity shortcut notation is allowed. + For example, both 1.5 and 1.5G would work for 1.5Gbps. + The following configurations can be forced. + + * Cable type: 40c, 80c, short40c, unk, ign or sata. + Any ID with matching PORT is used. + + * SATA link speed limit: 1.5Gbps or 3.0Gbps. + + * Transfer mode: pio[0-7], mwdma[0-4] and udma[0-7]. + udma[/][16,25,33,44,66,100,133] notation is also + allowed. + + * [no]ncq: Turn on or off NCQ. + + If there are multiple matching configurations changing + the same attribute, the last one is used. + load_ramdisk= [RAM] List of ramdisks to load from floppy See Documentation/ramdisk.txt. @@ -1051,8 +1107,6 @@ and is between 256 and 4096 characters. It is defined in the file [SCSI] Maximum number of LUNs received. Should be between 1 and 16384. - mca-pentium [BUGS=X86-32] - mcatest= [IA-64] mce [X86-32] Machine Check Exception @@ -1093,6 +1147,15 @@ and is between 256 and 4096 characters. It is defined in the file memmap=nn[KMG]$ss[KMG] [KNL,ACPI] Mark specific memory as reserved. Region of memory to be used, from ss to ss+nn. + Example: Exclude memory from 0x18690000-0x1869ffff + memmap=64K$0x18690000 + or + memmap=0x10000$0x18690000 + + memtest= [KNL,X86_64] Enable memtest + Format: + range: 0,4 : pattern number + default : 0 meye.*= [HW] Set MotionEye Camera parameters See Documentation/video4linux/meye.txt. @@ -1158,10 +1221,10 @@ and is between 256 and 4096 characters. It is defined in the file file if at all. nfsaddrs= [NFS] - See Documentation/nfsroot.txt. + See Documentation/filesystems/nfsroot.txt. nfsroot= [NFS] nfs root filesystem for disk-less boxes. - See Documentation/nfsroot.txt. + See Documentation/filesystems/nfsroot.txt. nfs.callback_tcpport= [NFS] set the TCP port on which the NFSv4 callback @@ -1299,6 +1362,10 @@ and is between 256 and 4096 characters. It is defined in the file nowb [ARM] + nptcg= [IA64] Override max number of concurrent global TLB + purges which is reported from either PAL_VM_SUMMARY or + SAL PALO. + numa_zonelist_order= [KNL, BOOT] Select zonelist order for NUMA. one of ['zone', 'node', 'default'] can be specified This can be set from sysctl after boot. @@ -1968,9 +2035,6 @@ and is between 256 and 4096 characters. It is defined in the file : poll all this frequency 0: no polling (default) - time Show timing data prefixed to each printk message line - [deprecated, see 'printk.time'] - tipar.timeout= [HW,PPT] Set communications timeout in tenths of a second (default 15).