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authorDavid Brown <davidb@codeaurora.org>2011-03-16 22:13:16 -0700
committerDavid Brown <davidb@codeaurora.org>2011-03-16 22:13:16 -0700
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parent8e76a80960bf06c245160a484d5a363ca6b520bb (diff)
parent05e34754518b6a90d5c392790c032575fab12d66 (diff)
Merge remote branch 'rmk/for-linus' into for-linus
* rmk/for-linus: (1557 commits) ARM: 6806/1: irq: introduce entry and exit functions for chained handlers ARM: 6781/1: Thumb-2: Work around buggy Thumb-2 short branch relocations in gas ARM: 6747/1: P2V: Thumb2 support ARM: 6798/1: aout-core: zero thread debug registers in a.out core dump ARM: 6796/1: Footbridge: Fix I/O mappings for NOMMU mode ARM: 6784/1: errata: no automatic Store Buffer drain on Cortex-A9 ARM: 6772/1: errata: possible fault MMU translations following an ASID switch ARM: 6776/1: mach-ux500: activate fix for errata 753970 ARM: 6794/1: SPEAr: Append UL to device address macros. ARM: 6793/1: SPEAr: Remove unused *_SIZE macros from spear*.h files ARM: 6792/1: SPEAr: Replace SIZE macro's with SZ_4K macros ARM: 6791/1: SPEAr3xx: Declare device structures after shirq code ARM: 6790/1: SPEAr: Clock Framework: Rename usbd clock and align apb_clk entry ARM: 6789/1: SPEAr3xx: Rename sdio to sdhci ARM: 6788/1: SPEAr: Include mach/hardware.h instead of mach/spear.h ARM: 6787/1: SPEAr: Reorder #includes in .h & .c files. ARM: 6681/1: SPEAr: add debugfs support to clk API ARM: 6703/1: SPEAr: update clk API support ARM: 6679/1: SPEAr: make clk API functions more generic ARM: 6737/1: SPEAr: formalized timer support ... Conflicts: arch/arm/mach-msm/board-msm7x27.c arch/arm/mach-msm/board-msm7x30.c arch/arm/mach-msm/board-qsd8x50.c arch/arm/mach-msm/board-sapphire.c arch/arm/mach-msm/include/mach/memory.h
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@@ -43,11 +43,11 @@ parameter is applicable:
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.
@@ -144,6 +144,11 @@ a fixed number of characters. This limit depends on the architecture
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
@@ -545,16 +550,20 @@ and is between 256 and 4096 characters. It is defined in the file
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>
@@ -1262,10 +1271,9 @@ and is between 256 and 4096 characters. It is defined in the file
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