From: Alan Cox Date: Tue, 31 Jul 2007 07:37:59 +0000 (-0700) Subject: doc/kernel-parameters: use X86-32 tag instead of IA-32 X-Git-Tag: v2.6.23-rc2~113 X-Git-Url: https://err.no/cgi-bin/gitweb.cgi?a=commitdiff_plain;h=cd4f0ef7c03e79f92a883843662e3d0eaae26fb4;p=linux-2.6 doc/kernel-parameters: use X86-32 tag instead of IA-32 Signed-off-by: Alan Cox Acked-by: Randy Dunlap Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds --- diff --git a/Documentation/kernel-parameters.txt b/Documentation/kernel-parameters.txt index 00254c018a..d763ebe11a 100644 --- a/Documentation/kernel-parameters.txt +++ b/Documentation/kernel-parameters.txt @@ -41,7 +41,6 @@ parameter is applicable: EIDE EIDE/ATAPI support is enabled. FB The frame buffer device is enabled. HW Appropriate hardware is enabled. - IA-32 IA-32 aka i386 architecture is enabled. IA-64 IA-64 architecture is enabled. IOSCHED More than one I/O scheduler is enabled. IP_PNP IP DHCP, BOOTP, or RARP is enabled. @@ -92,6 +91,7 @@ parameter is applicable: VT Virtual terminal support is enabled. WDT Watchdog support is enabled. XT IBM PC/XT MFM hard disk support is enabled. + X86-32 X86-32, aka i386 architecture is enabled. X86-64 X86-64 architecture is enabled. More X86-64 boot options can be found in Documentation/x86_64/boot-options.txt . @@ -219,7 +219,7 @@ and is between 256 and 4096 characters. It is defined in the file acpi_fake_ecdt [HW,ACPI] Workaround failure due to BIOS lacking ECDT - acpi_pm_good [IA-32,X86-64] + acpi_pm_good [X86-32,X86-64] Override the pmtimer bug detection: force the kernel to assume that this machine's pmtimer latches its value and always returns good values. @@ -357,7 +357,7 @@ and is between 256 and 4096 characters. It is defined in the file c101= [NET] Moxa C101 synchronous serial card - cachesize= [BUGS=IA-32] Override level 2 CPU cache size detection. + cachesize= [BUGS=X86-32] Override level 2 CPU cache size detection. Sometimes CPU hardware bugs make them report the cache size incorrectly. The kernel will attempt work arounds to fix known problems, but for some CPUs it is not @@ -376,7 +376,7 @@ and is between 256 and 4096 characters. It is defined in the file Value can be changed at runtime via /selinux/checkreqprot. - clock= [BUGS=IA-32, HW] gettimeofday clocksource override. + clock= [BUGS=X86-32, HW] gettimeofday clocksource override. [Deprecated] Forces specified clocksource (if available) to be used when calculating gettimeofday(). If specified @@ -394,7 +394,7 @@ and is between 256 and 4096 characters. It is defined in the file [ARM] imx_timer1,OSTS,netx_timer,mpu_timer2, pxa_timer,timer3,32k_counter,timer0_1 [AVR32] avr32 - [IA-32] pit,hpet,tsc,vmi-timer; + [X86-32] pit,hpet,tsc,vmi-timer; scx200_hrt on Geode; cyclone on IBM x440 [MIPS] MIPS [PARISC] cr16 @@ -414,7 +414,7 @@ and is between 256 and 4096 characters. It is defined in the file over the 8254 in addition to over the IO-APIC. The kernel tries to set a sensible default. - hpet= [IA-32,HPET] option to disable HPET and use PIT. + hpet= [X86-32,HPET] option to disable HPET and use PIT. Format: disable com20020= [HW,NET] ARCnet - COM20020 chipset @@ -551,7 +551,7 @@ and is between 256 and 4096 characters. It is defined in the file dtc3181e= [HW,SCSI] - earlyprintk= [IA-32,X86-64,SH] + earlyprintk= [X86-32,X86-64,SH] earlyprintk=vga earlyprintk=serial[,ttySn[,baudrate]] @@ -589,7 +589,7 @@ and is between 256 and 4096 characters. It is defined in the file eisa_irq_edge= [PARISC,HW] See header of drivers/parisc/eisa.c. - elanfreq= [IA-32] + elanfreq= [X86-32] See comment before function elanfreq_setup() in arch/i386/kernel/cpu/cpufreq/elanfreq.c. @@ -598,7 +598,7 @@ and is between 256 and 4096 characters. It is defined in the file See Documentation/block/as-iosched.txt and Documentation/block/deadline-iosched.txt for details. - elfcorehdr= [IA-32, X86_64] + elfcorehdr= [X86-32, X86_64] Specifies physical address of start of kernel core image elf header. Generally kexec loader will pass this option to capture kernel. @@ -680,7 +680,7 @@ and is between 256 and 4096 characters. It is defined in the file hisax= [HW,ISDN] See Documentation/isdn/README.HiSax. - hugepages= [HW,IA-32,IA-64] Maximal number of HugeTLB pages. + hugepages= [HW,X86-32,IA-64] Maximal number of HugeTLB pages. i8042.direct [HW] Put keyboard port into non-translated mode i8042.dumbkbd [HW] Pretend that controller can only read data from @@ -822,7 +822,7 @@ and is between 256 and 4096 characters. It is defined in the file js= [HW,JOY] Analog joystick See Documentation/input/joystick.txt. - kernelcore=nn[KMG] [KNL,IA-32,IA-64,PPC,X86-64] This parameter + kernelcore=nn[KMG] [KNL,X86-32,IA-64,PPC,X86-64] This parameter specifies the amount of memory usable by the kernel for non-movable allocations. The requested amount is spread evenly throughout all nodes in the system. The @@ -838,7 +838,7 @@ 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. - movablecore=nn[KMG] [KNL,IA-32,IA-64,PPC,X86-64] This parameter + movablecore=nn[KMG] [KNL,X86-32,IA-64,PPC,X86-64] This parameter is similar to kernelcore except it specifies the amount of memory used for migratable allocations. If both kernelcore and movablecore is specified, @@ -850,21 +850,21 @@ and is between 256 and 4096 characters. It is defined in the file keepinitrd [HW,ARM] - kstack=N [IA-32,X86-64] Print N words from the kernel stack + kstack=N [X86-32,X86-64] Print N words from the kernel stack in oops dumps. l2cr= [PPC] - lapic [IA-32,APIC] Enable the local APIC even if BIOS + lapic [X86-32,APIC] Enable the local APIC even if BIOS disabled it. - lapic_timer_c2_ok [IA-32,x86-64,APIC] trust the local apic timer in + lapic_timer_c2_ok [X86-32,x86-64,APIC] trust the local apic timer in C2 power state. lasi= [HW,SCSI] PARISC LASI driver for the 53c700 chip Format: addr:,irq: - legacy_serial.force [HW,IA-32,X86-64] + legacy_serial.force [HW,X86-32,X86-64] Probe for COM ports at legacy addresses even if PNPBIOS or ACPI should describe them. This is for working around firmware defects. @@ -974,11 +974,11 @@ 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=IA-32] + mca-pentium [BUGS=X86-32] mcatest= [IA-64] - mce [IA-32] Machine Check Exception + mce [X86-32] Machine Check Exception md= [HW] RAID subsystems devices and level See Documentation/md.txt. @@ -990,14 +990,14 @@ and is between 256 and 4096 characters. It is defined in the file mem=nn[KMG] [KNL,BOOT] Force usage of a specific amount of memory Amount of memory to be used when the kernel is not able to see the whole system memory or for test. - [IA-32] Use together with memmap= to avoid physical + [X86-32] Use together with memmap= to avoid physical address space collisions. Without memmap= PCI devices could be placed at addresses belonging to unused RAM. - mem=nopentium [BUGS=IA-32] Disable usage of 4MB pages for kernel + mem=nopentium [BUGS=X86-32] Disable usage of 4MB pages for kernel memory. - memmap=exactmap [KNL,IA-32,X86_64] Enable setting of an exact + memmap=exactmap [KNL,X86-32,X86_64] Enable setting of an exact E820 memory map, as specified by the user. Such memmap=exactmap lines can be constructed based on BIOS output or other requirements. See the memmap=nn@ss @@ -1083,9 +1083,9 @@ and is between 256 and 4096 characters. It is defined in the file [NFS] set the maximum lifetime for idmapper cache entries. - nmi_watchdog= [KNL,BUGS=IA-32] Debugging features for SMP kernels + nmi_watchdog= [KNL,BUGS=X86-32] Debugging features for SMP kernels - no387 [BUGS=IA-32] Tells the kernel to use the 387 maths + no387 [BUGS=X86-32] Tells the kernel to use the 387 maths emulation library even if a 387 maths coprocessor is present. @@ -1116,17 +1116,17 @@ and is between 256 and 4096 characters. It is defined in the file noexec [IA-64] - noexec [IA-32,X86-64] + noexec [X86-32,X86-64] noexec=on: enable non-executable mappings (default) noexec=off: disable nn-executable mappings - nofxsr [BUGS=IA-32] Disables x86 floating point extended + nofxsr [BUGS=X86-32] Disables x86 floating point extended register save and restore. The kernel will only save legacy floating-point registers on task switch. nohlt [BUGS=ARM] - no-hlt [BUGS=IA-32] Tells the kernel that the hlt + no-hlt [BUGS=X86-32] Tells the kernel that the hlt instruction doesn't work correctly and not to use it. @@ -1141,12 +1141,12 @@ and is between 256 and 4096 characters. It is defined in the file Valid arguments: on, off Default: on - noirqbalance [IA-32,SMP,KNL] Disable kernel irq balancing + noirqbalance [X86-32,SMP,KNL] Disable kernel irq balancing - noirqdebug [IA-32] Disables the code which attempts to detect and + noirqdebug [X86-32] Disables the code which attempts to detect and disable unhandled interrupt sources. - no_timer_check [IA-32,X86_64,APIC] Disables the code which tests for + no_timer_check [X86-32,X86_64,APIC] Disables the code which tests for broken timer IRQ sources. noisapnp [ISAPNP] Disables ISA PnP code. @@ -1158,20 +1158,20 @@ and is between 256 and 4096 characters. It is defined in the file nojitter [IA64] Disables jitter checking for ITC timers. - nolapic [IA-32,APIC] Do not enable or use the local APIC. + nolapic [X86-32,APIC] Do not enable or use the local APIC. - nolapic_timer [IA-32,APIC] Do not use the local APIC timer. + nolapic_timer [X86-32,APIC] Do not use the local APIC timer. noltlbs [PPC] Do not use large page/tlb entries for kernel lowmem mapping on PPC40x. nomca [IA-64] Disable machine check abort handling - nomce [IA-32] Machine Check Exception + nomce [X86-32] Machine Check Exception - noreplace-paravirt [IA-32,PV_OPS] Don't patch paravirt_ops + noreplace-paravirt [X86-32,PV_OPS] Don't patch paravirt_ops - noreplace-smp [IA-32,SMP] Don't replace SMP instructions + noreplace-smp [X86-32,SMP] Don't replace SMP instructions with UP alternatives noresidual [PPC] Don't use residual data on PReP machines. @@ -1185,7 +1185,7 @@ and is between 256 and 4096 characters. It is defined in the file nosbagart [IA-64] - nosep [BUGS=IA-32] Disables x86 SYSENTER/SYSEXIT support. + nosep [BUGS=X86-32] Disables x86 SYSENTER/SYSEXIT support. nosmp [SMP] Tells an SMP kernel to act as a UP kernel. @@ -1193,7 +1193,7 @@ and is between 256 and 4096 characters. It is defined in the file nosync [HW,M68K] Disables sync negotiation for all devices. - notsc [BUGS=IA-32] Disable Time Stamp Counter + notsc [BUGS=X86-32] Disable Time Stamp Counter nousb [USB] Disable the USB subsystem @@ -1266,28 +1266,28 @@ and is between 256 and 4096 characters. It is defined in the file See also Documentation/paride.txt. pci=option[,option...] [PCI] various PCI subsystem options: - off [IA-32] don't probe for the PCI bus - bios [IA-32] force use of PCI BIOS, don't access + off [X86-32] don't probe for the PCI bus + bios [X86-32] force use of PCI BIOS, don't access the hardware directly. Use this if your machine has a non-standard PCI host bridge. - nobios [IA-32] disallow use of PCI BIOS, only direct + nobios [X86-32] disallow use of PCI BIOS, only direct hardware access methods are allowed. Use this if you experience crashes upon bootup and you suspect they are caused by the BIOS. - conf1 [IA-32] Force use of PCI Configuration + conf1 [X86-32] Force use of PCI Configuration Mechanism 1. - conf2 [IA-32] Force use of PCI Configuration + conf2 [X86-32] Force use of PCI Configuration Mechanism 2. - nommconf [IA-32,X86_64] Disable use of MMCONFIG for PCI + nommconf [X86-32,X86_64] Disable use of MMCONFIG for PCI Configuration nomsi [MSI] If the PCI_MSI kernel config parameter is enabled, this kernel boot option can be used to disable the use of MSI interrupts system-wide. - nosort [IA-32] Don't sort PCI devices according to + nosort [X86-32] Don't sort PCI devices according to order given by the PCI BIOS. This sorting is done to get a device order compatible with older kernels. - biosirq [IA-32] Use PCI BIOS calls to get the interrupt + biosirq [X86-32] Use PCI BIOS calls to get the interrupt routing table. These calls are known to be buggy on several machines and they hang the machine when used, but on other computers it's the only @@ -1295,32 +1295,32 @@ and is between 256 and 4096 characters. It is defined in the file this option if the kernel is unable to allocate IRQs or discover secondary PCI buses on your motherboard. - rom [IA-32] Assign address space to expansion ROMs. + rom [X86-32] Assign address space to expansion ROMs. Use with caution as certain devices share address decoders between ROMs and other resources. - irqmask=0xMMMM [IA-32] Set a bit mask of IRQs allowed to be + 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 this way. - pirqaddr=0xAAAAA [IA-32] Specify the physical address + pirqaddr=0xAAAAA [X86-32] Specify the physical address of the PIRQ table (normally generated by the BIOS) if it is outside the F0000h-100000h range. - lastbus=N [IA-32] Scan all buses thru bus #N. Can be + lastbus=N [X86-32] Scan all buses thru bus #N. Can be useful if the kernel is unable to find your secondary buses and you want to tell it explicitly which ones they are. - assign-busses [IA-32] Always assign all PCI bus + assign-busses [X86-32] Always assign all PCI bus numbers ourselves, overriding whatever the firmware may have done. - usepirqmask [IA-32] Honor the possible IRQ mask stored + usepirqmask [X86-32] Honor the possible IRQ mask stored in the BIOS $PIR table. This is needed on some systems with broken BIOSes, notably some HP Pavilion N5400 and Omnibook XE3 notebooks. This will have no effect if ACPI IRQ routing is enabled. - noacpi [IA-32] Do not use ACPI for IRQ routing + noacpi [X86-32] Do not use ACPI for IRQ routing or for PCI scanning. routeirq Do IRQ routing for all PCI devices. This is normally done in pci_enable_device(), @@ -1469,13 +1469,13 @@ and is between 256 and 4096 characters. It is defined in the file Run specified binary instead of /init from the ramdisk, used for early userspace startup. See initrd. - reboot= [BUGS=IA-32,BUGS=ARM,BUGS=IA-64] Rebooting mode + reboot= [BUGS=X86-32,BUGS=ARM,BUGS=IA-64] Rebooting mode Format: [,[,...]] See arch/*/kernel/reboot.c or arch/*/kernel/process.c reserve= [KNL,BUGS] Force the kernel to ignore some iomem area - reservetop= [IA-32] + reservetop= [X86-32] Format: nn[KMG] Reserves a hole at the top of the kernel virtual address space. @@ -1566,7 +1566,7 @@ and is between 256 and 4096 characters. It is defined in the file Value can be changed at runtime via /selinux/compat_net. - serialnumber [BUGS=IA-32] + serialnumber [BUGS=X86-32] sg_def_reserved_size= [SCSI] @@ -1619,7 +1619,7 @@ and is between 256 and 4096 characters. It is defined in the file smart2= [HW] Format: [,[,...,]] - smp-alt-once [IA-32,SMP] On a hotplug CPU system, only + smp-alt-once [X86-32,SMP] On a hotplug CPU system, only attempt to substitute SMP alternatives once at boot. smsc-ircc2.nopnp [HW] Don't use PNP to discover SMC devices @@ -1884,7 +1884,7 @@ and is between 256 and 4096 characters. It is defined in the file usbhid.mousepoll= [USBHID] The interval which mice are to be polled at. - vdso= [IA-32,SH,x86-64] + vdso= [X86-32,SH,x86-64] vdso=2: enable compat VDSO (default with COMPAT_VDSO) vdso=1: enable VDSO (default) vdso=0: disable VDSO mapping @@ -1895,7 +1895,7 @@ and is between 256 and 4096 characters. It is defined in the file video= [FB] Frame buffer configuration See Documentation/fb/modedb.txt. - vga= [BOOT,IA-32] Select a particular video mode + vga= [BOOT,X86-32] Select a particular video mode See Documentation/i386/boot.txt and Documentation/svga.txt. Use vga=ask for menu.