X-Git-Url: https://git.openpandora.org/cgi-bin/gitweb.cgi?a=blobdiff_plain;f=Documentation%2Fkernel-parameters.txt;h=4d175c7512464671e14731239d5bf943b72c5614;hb=60812a4a99b796d894d2522dc63cb0fafc3be25e;hp=17770b45631042fae4e44409012a29a5888463e1;hpb=4548a9dbe01eb2a357ad290abdbc21a3814dd568;p=pandora-kernel.git diff --git a/Documentation/kernel-parameters.txt b/Documentation/kernel-parameters.txt index 17770b456310..7bf6bd2f530b 100644 --- a/Documentation/kernel-parameters.txt +++ b/Documentation/kernel-parameters.txt @@ -35,6 +35,7 @@ parameter is applicable: APIC APIC support is enabled. APM Advanced Power Management support is enabled. AX25 Appropriate AX.25 support is enabled. + BLACKFIN Blackfin architecture is enabled. DRM Direct Rendering Management support is enabled. EDD BIOS Enhanced Disk Drive Services (EDD) is enabled EFI EFI Partitioning (GPT) is enabled @@ -67,16 +68,19 @@ parameter is applicable: PARIDE The ParIDE (parallel port IDE) subsystem is enabled. PARISC The PA-RISC architecture is enabled. PCI PCI bus support is enabled. + PCIE PCI Express support is enabled. PCMCIA The PCMCIA subsystem is enabled. PNP Plug & Play support is enabled. PPC PowerPC architecture is enabled. PPT Parallel port support is enabled. PS2 Appropriate PS/2 support is enabled. RAM RAM disk support is enabled. + ROOTPLUG The example Root Plug LSM is enabled. S390 S390 architecture is enabled. SCSI Appropriate SCSI support is enabled. A lot of drivers has their options described inside of Documentation/scsi/. + SECURITY Different security models are enabled. SELINUX SELinux support is enabled. SERIAL Serial support is enabled. SH SuperH architecture is enabled. @@ -347,6 +351,11 @@ and is between 256 and 4096 characters. It is defined in the file blkmtd_bs= blkmtd_count= + boot_delay= Milliseconds to delay each printk during boot. + Values larger than 10 seconds (10000) are changed to + no delay (0). + Format: integer + bttv.card= [HW,V4L] bttv (bt848 + bt878 based grabber cards) bttv.radio= Most important insmod options are available as kernel args too. @@ -366,6 +375,12 @@ and is between 256 and 4096 characters. It is defined in the file possible to determine what the correct size should be. This option provides an override for these situations. + capability.disable= + [SECURITY] Disable capabilities. This would normally + be used only if an alternative security model is to be + configured. Potentially dangerous and should only be + used if you are entirely sure of the consequences. + chandev= [HW,NET] Generic channel device initialisation checkreqprot [SELINUX] Set initial checkreqprot flag value. @@ -416,8 +431,10 @@ 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= [X86-32,HPET] option to disable HPET and use PIT. - Format: disable + hpet= [X86-32,HPET] option to control HPET usage + Format: { enable (default) | disable | force } + disable: disable HPET and use PIT instead + force: allow force enabled of undocumented chips (ICH4, VIA) com20020= [HW,NET] ARCnet - COM20020 chipset Format: @@ -464,17 +481,31 @@ and is between 256 and 4096 characters. It is defined in the file UART at the specified I/O port or MMIO address. The options are the same as for ttyS, above. + no_console_suspend + [HW] Never suspend the console + Disable suspending of consoles during suspend and + hibernate operations. Once disabled, debugging + messages can reach various consoles while the rest + of the system is being put to sleep (ie, while + debugging driver suspend/resume hooks). This may + not work reliably with all consoles, but is known + to work with serial and VGA consoles. + cpcihp_generic= [HW,PCI] Generic port I/O CompactPCI driver Format: ,,,[,] - cpia_pp= [HW,PPT] - Format: { parport | auto | none } - crashkernel=nn[KMG]@ss[KMG] [KNL] Reserve a chunk of physical memory to hold a kernel to switch to with kexec on panic. + crashkernel=range1:size1[,range2:size2,...][@offset] + [KNL] Same as above, but depends on the memory + in the running system. The syntax of range is + start-[end] where start and end are both + a memory unit (amount[KMG]). See also + Documentation/kdump/kdump.txt for a example. + cs4232= [HW,OSS] Format: ,,,,, @@ -553,7 +584,7 @@ and is between 256 and 4096 characters. It is defined in the file dtc3181e= [HW,SCSI] - earlyprintk= [X86-32,X86-64,SH] + earlyprintk= [X86-32,X86-64,SH,BLACKFIN] earlyprintk=vga earlyprintk=serial[,ttySn[,baudrate]] @@ -866,6 +897,10 @@ and is between 256 and 4096 characters. It is defined in the file lasi= [HW,SCSI] PARISC LASI driver for the 53c700 chip Format: addr:,irq: + libata.noacpi [LIBATA] Disables use of ACPI in libata suspend/resume + when set. + Format: + load_ramdisk= [RAM] List of ramdisks to load from floppy See Documentation/ramdisk.txt. @@ -903,6 +938,11 @@ and is between 256 and 4096 characters. It is defined in the file n must be a power of two. The default size is set in the kernel config file. + logo.nologo [FB] Disables display of the built-in Linux logo. + This may be used to provide more screen space for + kernel log messages and is useful when debugging + kernel boot problems. + lp=0 [LP] Specify parallel ports to use, e.g, lp=port[,port...] lp=none,parport0 (lp0 not configured, lp1 uses lp=reset first parallel port). 'lp=0' disables the @@ -973,6 +1013,8 @@ and is between 256 and 4096 characters. It is defined in the file mce [X86-32] Machine Check Exception + mce=option [X86-64] See Documentation/x86_64/boot-options.txt + md= [HW] RAID subsystems devices and level See Documentation/md.txt. @@ -1011,6 +1053,10 @@ and is between 256 and 4096 characters. It is defined in the file meye.*= [HW] Set MotionEye Camera parameters See Documentation/video4linux/meye.txt. + mfgpt_irq= [IA-32] Specify the IRQ to use for the + Multi-Function General Purpose Timers on AMD Geode + platforms. + mga= [HW,DRM] mousedev.tap_time= @@ -1076,16 +1122,19 @@ and is between 256 and 4096 characters. It is defined in the file [NFS] set the maximum lifetime for idmapper cache entries. + nfs.enable_ino64= + [NFS] enable 64-bit inode numbers. + If zero, the NFS client will fake up a 32-bit inode + number for the readdir() and stat() syscalls instead + of returning the full 64-bit number. + The default is to return 64-bit inode numbers. + nmi_watchdog= [KNL,BUGS=X86-32] Debugging features for SMP kernels no387 [BUGS=X86-32] Tells the kernel to use the 387 maths emulation library even if a 387 maths coprocessor is present. - noacpi [LIBATA] Disables use of ACPI in libata suspend/resume - when set. - Format: - noaliencache [MM, NUMA, SLAB] Disables the allocation of alien caches in the slab allocator. Saves per-node memory, but will impact performance. @@ -1162,6 +1211,9 @@ and is between 256 and 4096 characters. It is defined in the file nomce [X86-32] Machine Check Exception + nomfgpt [X86-32] Disable Multi-Function General Purpose + Timer usage (for AMD Geode machines). + noreplace-paravirt [X86-32,PV_OPS] Don't patch paravirt_ops noreplace-smp [X86-32,SMP] Don't replace SMP instructions @@ -1272,6 +1324,11 @@ and is between 256 and 4096 characters. It is defined in the file Mechanism 1. conf2 [X86-32] Force use of PCI Configuration Mechanism 2. + noaer [PCIE] If the PCIEAER kernel config parameter is + enabled, this kernel boot option can be used to + disable the use of PCIE advanced error reporting. + nodomains [PCI] Disable support for multiple PCI + root domains (aka PCI segments, in ACPI-speak). nommconf [X86-32,X86_64] Disable use of MMCONFIG for PCI Configuration nomsi [MSI] If the PCI_MSI kernel config parameter is @@ -1316,6 +1373,8 @@ and is between 256 and 4096 characters. It is defined in the file IRQ routing is enabled. noacpi [X86-32] Do not use ACPI for IRQ routing or for PCI scanning. + use_crs [X86-32] Use _CRS for PCI resource + allocation. routeirq Do IRQ routing for all PCI devices. This is normally done in pci_enable_device(), so this option is a temporary workaround @@ -1432,6 +1491,10 @@ and is between 256 and 4096 characters. It is defined in the file pt. [PARIDE] See Documentation/paride.txt. + pty.legacy_count= + [KNL] Number of legacy pty's. Overwrites compiled-in + default number. + quiet [KNL] Disable most log messages r128= [HW,DRM] @@ -1439,14 +1502,10 @@ and is between 256 and 4096 characters. It is defined in the file raid= [HW,RAID] See Documentation/md.txt. - ramdisk= [RAM] Sizes of RAM disks in kilobytes [deprecated] - See Documentation/ramdisk.txt. - ramdisk_blocksize= [RAM] See Documentation/ramdisk.txt. ramdisk_size= [RAM] Sizes of RAM disks in kilobytes - New name for the ramdisk parameter. See Documentation/ramdisk.txt. rcu.blimit= [KNL,BOOT] Set maximum number of finished @@ -1509,6 +1568,15 @@ and is between 256 and 4096 characters. It is defined in the file Useful for devices that are detected asynchronously (e.g. USB and MMC devices). + root_plug.vendor_id= + [ROOTPLUG] Override the default vendor ID + + root_plug.product_id= + [ROOTPLUG] Override the default product ID + + root_plug.debug= + [ROOTPLUG] Enable debugging output + rw [KNL] Mount root device read-write on boot S [KNL] Run init in single mode @@ -1823,6 +1891,10 @@ and is between 256 and 4096 characters. It is defined in the file -1: disable all active trip points in all thermal zones : override all lowest active trip points + thermal.crt= [HW,ACPI] + -1: disable all critical trip points in all thermal zones + : lower all critical trip points + thermal.nocrt= [HW,ACPI] Set to disable actions on ACPI thermal zone critical and hot trip points. @@ -1862,9 +1934,6 @@ and is between 256 and 4096 characters. It is defined in the file Format: ,,,,,,,, - tsdev.xres= [TS] Horizontal screen resolution. - tsdev.yres= [TS] Vertical screen resolution. - turbografx.map[2|3]= [HW,JOY] TurboGraFX parallel port interface Format: