AVR32 AVR32 architecture is enabled.
AX25 Appropriate AX.25 support is enabled.
BLACKFIN Blackfin architecture is enabled.
+ DRM Direct Rendering Management support is enabled.
+ DYNAMIC_DEBUG Build in debug messages and enable them at runtime
EDD BIOS Enhanced Disk Drive Services (EDD) is enabled
EFI EFI Partitioning (GPT) is enabled
EIDE EIDE/ATAPI support is enabled.
- DRM Direct Rendering Management support is enabled.
- DYNAMIC_DEBUG Build in debug messages and enable them at runtime
FB The frame buffer device is enabled.
GCOV GCOV profiling is enabled.
HW Appropriate hardware is enabled.
and is between 256 and 4096 characters. It is defined in the file
./include/asm/setup.h as COMMAND_LINE_SIZE.
+Finally, the [KMG] suffix is commonly described after a number of kernel
+parameter values. These 'K', 'M', and 'G' letters represent the _binary_
+multipliers 'Kilo', 'Mega', and 'Giga', equalling 2^10, 2^20, and 2^30
+bytes respectively. Such letter suffixes can also be entirely omitted.
+
acpi= [HW,ACPI,X86]
Advanced Configuration and Power Interface
unusable. The "log_buf_len" parameter may be useful
if you need to capture more output.
- acpi_display_output= [HW,ACPI]
- acpi_display_output=vendor
- acpi_display_output=video
- See above.
-
acpi_irq_balance [HW,ACPI]
ACPI will balance active IRQs
default in APIC mode
bttv.pll= See Documentation/video4linux/bttv/Insmod-options
bttv.tuner= and Documentation/video4linux/bttv/CARDLIST
+ bulk_remove=off [PPC] This parameter disables the use of the pSeries
+ firmware feature for flushing multiple hpte entries
+ at a time.
+
c101= [NET] Moxa C101 synchronous serial card
cachesize= [BUGS=X86-32] Override level 2 CPU cache size detection.
Format:
<first_slot>,<last_slot>,<port>,<enum_bit>[,<debug>]
- crashkernel=nn[KMG]@ss[KMG]
- [KNL] Reserve a chunk of physical memory to
- hold a kernel to switch to with kexec on panic.
+ crashkernel=size[KMG][@offset[KMG]]
+ [KNL] Using kexec, Linux can switch to a 'crash kernel'
+ upon panic. This parameter reserves the physical
+ memory region [offset, offset + size] for that kernel
+ image. If '@offset' is omitted, then a suitable offset
+ is selected automatically. Check
+ Documentation/kdump/kdump.txt for further details.
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.
+ Documentation/kdump/kdump.txt for an example.
cs89x0_dma= [HW,NET]
Format: <dma>
dscc4.setup= [NET]
- dynamic_printk Enables pr_debug()/dev_dbg() calls if
- CONFIG_DYNAMIC_PRINTK_DEBUG has been enabled.
- These can also be switched on/off via
- <debugfs>/dynamic_printk/modules
-
earlycon= [KNL] Output early console device and options.
uart[8250],io,<addr>[,options]
uart[8250],mmio,<addr>[,options]
controller
i8042.nopnp [HW] Don't use ACPIPnP / PnPBIOS to discover KBD/AUX
controllers
+ i8042.notimeout [HW] Ignore timeout condition signalled by conroller
i8042.reset [HW] Reset the controller during init and cleanup
i8042.unlock [HW] Unlock (ignore) the keylock
6 (KERN_INFO) informational
7 (KERN_DEBUG) debug-level messages
- log_buf_len=n Sets the size of the printk ring buffer, in bytes.
- Format: { n | nk | nM }
- n must be a power of two. The default size
- is set in the kernel config file.
+ log_buf_len=n[KMG] Sets the size of the printk ring buffer,
+ in bytes. 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
mtdparts= [MTD]
See drivers/mtd/cmdlinepart.c.
+ multitce=off [PPC] This parameter disables the use of the pSeries
+ firmware feature for updating multiple TCE entries
+ at a time.
+
onenand.bdry= [HW,MTD] Flex-OneNAND Boundary Configuration
Format: [die0_boundary][,die0_lock][,die1_boundary][,die1_lock]
nmi_watchdog= [KNL,BUGS=X86] Debugging features for SMP kernels
Format: [panic,][num]
- Valid num: 0,1,2
+ Valid num: 0
0 - turn nmi_watchdog off
- 1 - use the IO-APIC timer for the NMI watchdog
- 2 - use the local APIC for the NMI watchdog using
- a performance counter. Note: This will use one
- performance counter and the local APIC's performance
- vector.
When panic is specified, panic when an NMI watchdog
timeout occurs.
This is useful when you use a panic=... timeout and
need the box quickly up again.
- Instead of 1 and 2 it is possible to use the following
- symbolic names: lapic and ioapic
- Example: nmi_watchdog=2 or nmi_watchdog=panic,lapic
netpoll.carrier_timeout=
[NET] Specifies amount of time (in seconds) that
noapic [SMP,APIC] Tells the kernel to not make use of any
IOAPICs that may be present in the system.
+ noautogroup Disable scheduler automatic task group creation.
+
nobats [PPC] Do not use BATs for mapping kernel lowmem
on "Classic" PPC cores.
no-kvmclock [X86,KVM] Disable paravirtualized KVM clock driver
+ no-kvmapf [X86,KVM] Disable paravirtualized asynchronous page
+ fault handling.
+
nolapic [X86-32,APIC] Do not enable or use the local APIC.
nolapic_timer [X86-32,APIC] Do not use the local APIC timer.
to facilitate early boot debugging.
See also Documentation/trace/events.txt
- tsc= Disable clocksource-must-verify flag for TSC.
+ tsc= Disable clocksource stability checks for TSC.
Format: <string>
[x86] reliable: mark tsc clocksource as reliable, this
- disables clocksource verification at runtime.
- Used to enable high-resolution timer mode on older
- hardware, and in virtualized environment.
+ disables clocksource verification at runtime, as well
+ as the stability checks done at bootup. Used to enable
+ high-resolution timer mode on older hardware, and in
+ virtualized environment.
[x86] noirqtime: Do not use TSC to do irq accounting.
Used to run time disable IRQ_TIME_ACCOUNTING on any
platforms where RDTSC is slow and this accounting
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