Merge branch 'linus' into release

[pandora-kernel.git] / Documentation / kernel-parameters.txt

diff --git a/Documentation/kernel-parameters.txt b/Documentation/kernel-parameters.txt
index fb84902..fcc48bf 100644 (file)
--- a/Documentation/kernel-parameters.txt
+++ b/Documentation/kernel-parameters.txt
@@ -141,6 +141,7 @@ and is between 256 and 4096 characters. It is defined in the file
                        ht -- run only enough ACPI to enable Hyper Threading
                        strict -- Be less tolerant of platforms that are not
                                strictly ACPI specification compliant.
+                       rsdt -- prefer RSDT over (default) XSDT
 
                        See also Documentation/power/pm.txt, pci=noacpi
 
@@ -151,16 +152,20 @@ 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, s4_nohwsig, old_ordering }
-                       See Documentation/power/video.txt for s3_bios and s3_mode.
+                       Format: { s3_bios, s3_mode, s3_beep, s4_nohwsig,
+                                 old_ordering, s4_nonvs }
+                       See Documentation/power/video.txt for information on
+                       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.
                        s4_nohwsig prevents ACPI hardware signature from being
                        used during resume from hibernation.
                        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).
+                       control method, with respect to putting devices into
+                       low power states, to be enforced (the ACPI 2.0 ordering
+                       of _PTS is used by default).
+                       s4_nonvs prevents the kernel from saving/restoring the
+                       ACPI NVS memory during hibernation.
 
        acpi_sci=       [HW,ACPI] ACPI System Control Interrupt trigger mode
                        Format: { level | edge | high | low }
@@ -195,7 +200,7 @@ and is between 256 and 4096 characters. It is defined in the file
        acpi_skip_timer_override [HW,ACPI]
                        Recognize and ignore IRQ0/pin2 Interrupt Override.
                        For broken nForce2 BIOS resulting in XT-PIC timer.
-       acpi_use_timer_override [HW,ACPI}
+       acpi_use_timer_override [HW,ACPI]
                        Use timer override. For some broken Nvidia NF5 boards
                        that require a timer override, but don't have
                        HPET
@@ -878,17 +883,19 @@ 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, 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.
-                       idle=mwait. On systems which support MONITOR/MWAIT but the kernel chose
-                       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.
+                       Format: idle=poll, idle=mwait, idle=halt, idle=nomwait
+                       Poll forces a polling idle loop that can slightly
+                       improve the performance of waking up a idle CPU, but
+                       will use a lot of power and make the system run hot.
+                       Not recommended.
+                       idle=mwait: On systems which support MONITOR/MWAIT but
+                       the kernel chose 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
+                       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.
@@ -1074,8 +1081,8 @@ and is between 256 and 4096 characters. It is defined in the file
        lapic           [X86-32,APIC] Enable the local APIC even if BIOS
                        disabled it.
 
-       lapic_timer_c2_ok       [X86-32,x86-64,APIC] trust the local apic timer in
-                       C2 power state.
+       lapic_timer_c2_ok       [X86-32,x86-64,APIC] trust the local apic timer
+                       in C2 power state.
 
        libata.dma=     [LIBATA] DMA control
                        libata.dma=0      Disable all PATA and SATA DMA
@@ -2303,7 +2310,8 @@ and is between 256 and 4096 characters. It is defined in the file
 
        thermal.psv=    [HW,ACPI]
                        -1: disable all passive trip points
-                       <degrees C>: override all passive trip points to this value
+                       <degrees C>: override all passive trip points to this
+                       value
 
        thermal.tzp=    [HW,ACPI]
                        Specify global default ACPI thermal zone polling rate