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| author | David Brown <davidb@codeaurora.org> | 2011-03-16 22:13:16 -0700 |
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| committer | David Brown <davidb@codeaurora.org> | 2011-03-16 22:13:16 -0700 |
| commit | 92c260f755c42337c550d8ac1f8ccd1b32bffb20 (patch) | |
| tree | 6d04fefc1adeecabfb2b00c201e0db78fa2b5529 /Documentation/kernel-parameters.txt | |
| parent | 8e76a80960bf06c245160a484d5a363ca6b520bb (diff) | |
| parent | 05e34754518b6a90d5c392790c032575fab12d66 (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
Diffstat (limited to 'Documentation/kernel-parameters.txt')
| -rw-r--r-- | Documentation/kernel-parameters.txt | 28 |
1 files changed, 18 insertions, 10 deletions
diff --git a/Documentation/kernel-parameters.txt b/Documentation/kernel-parameters.txt index b72e071a3e5..f4a04c0c7ed 100644 --- a/Documentation/kernel-parameters.txt +++ b/Documentation/kernel-parameters.txt @@ -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 |
