Linus Torvalds | 1da177e | 2005-04-16 15:20:36 -0700 | [diff] [blame] | 1 | February 2003 Kernel Parameters v2.5.59 |
| 2 | ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ |
| 3 | |
| 4 | The following is a consolidated list of the kernel parameters as implemented |
| 5 | (mostly) by the __setup() macro and sorted into English Dictionary order |
| 6 | (defined as ignoring all punctuation and sorting digits before letters in a |
| 7 | case insensitive manner), and with descriptions where known. |
| 8 | |
| 9 | Module parameters for loadable modules are specified only as the |
| 10 | parameter name with optional '=' and value as appropriate, such as: |
| 11 | |
| 12 | modprobe usbcore blinkenlights=1 |
| 13 | |
| 14 | Module parameters for modules that are built into the kernel image |
| 15 | are specified on the kernel command line with the module name plus |
| 16 | '.' plus parameter name, with '=' and value if appropriate, such as: |
| 17 | |
| 18 | usbcore.blinkenlights=1 |
| 19 | |
Randy Dunlap | a991304 | 2005-10-23 12:57:11 -0700 | [diff] [blame] | 20 | The text in square brackets at the beginning of the description states the |
Linus Torvalds | 1da177e | 2005-04-16 15:20:36 -0700 | [diff] [blame] | 21 | restrictions on the kernel for the said kernel parameter to be valid. The |
| 22 | restrictions referred to are that the relevant option is valid if: |
| 23 | |
| 24 | ACPI ACPI support is enabled. |
| 25 | ALSA ALSA sound support is enabled. |
| 26 | APIC APIC support is enabled. |
| 27 | APM Advanced Power Management support is enabled. |
| 28 | AX25 Appropriate AX.25 support is enabled. |
| 29 | CD Appropriate CD support is enabled. |
Randy Dunlap | a991304 | 2005-10-23 12:57:11 -0700 | [diff] [blame] | 30 | DEVFS devfs support is enabled. |
| 31 | DRM Direct Rendering Management support is enabled. |
Linus Torvalds | 1da177e | 2005-04-16 15:20:36 -0700 | [diff] [blame] | 32 | EDD BIOS Enhanced Disk Drive Services (EDD) is enabled |
| 33 | EFI EFI Partitioning (GPT) is enabled |
| 34 | EIDE EIDE/ATAPI support is enabled. |
| 35 | FB The frame buffer device is enabled. |
| 36 | HW Appropriate hardware is enabled. |
| 37 | IA-32 IA-32 aka i386 architecture is enabled. |
| 38 | IA-64 IA-64 architecture is enabled. |
| 39 | IOSCHED More than one I/O scheduler is enabled. |
Adrian Bunk | 41e2e8b | 2005-07-12 13:58:33 -0700 | [diff] [blame] | 40 | IP_PNP IP DHCP, BOOTP, or RARP is enabled. |
Linus Torvalds | 1da177e | 2005-04-16 15:20:36 -0700 | [diff] [blame] | 41 | ISAPNP ISA PnP code is enabled. |
| 42 | ISDN Appropriate ISDN support is enabled. |
| 43 | JOY Appropriate joystick support is enabled. |
| 44 | LP Printer support is enabled. |
| 45 | LOOP Loopback device support is enabled. |
| 46 | M68k M68k architecture is enabled. |
| 47 | These options have more detailed description inside of |
| 48 | Documentation/m68k/kernel-options.txt. |
| 49 | MCA MCA bus support is enabled. |
| 50 | MDA MDA console support is enabled. |
| 51 | MOUSE Appropriate mouse support is enabled. |
Matthew Wilcox | 309e57d | 2006-03-05 22:33:34 -0700 | [diff] [blame] | 52 | MSI Message Signaled Interrupts (PCI). |
Linus Torvalds | 1da177e | 2005-04-16 15:20:36 -0700 | [diff] [blame] | 53 | MTD MTD support is enabled. |
| 54 | NET Appropriate network support is enabled. |
| 55 | NUMA NUMA support is enabled. |
| 56 | NFS Appropriate NFS support is enabled. |
| 57 | OSS OSS sound support is enabled. |
| 58 | PARIDE The ParIDE subsystem is enabled. |
| 59 | PARISC The PA-RISC architecture is enabled. |
| 60 | PCI PCI bus support is enabled. |
| 61 | PCMCIA The PCMCIA subsystem is enabled. |
| 62 | PNP Plug & Play support is enabled. |
| 63 | PPC PowerPC architecture is enabled. |
| 64 | PPT Parallel port support is enabled. |
| 65 | PS2 Appropriate PS/2 support is enabled. |
| 66 | RAM RAM disk support is enabled. |
| 67 | S390 S390 architecture is enabled. |
| 68 | SCSI Appropriate SCSI support is enabled. |
| 69 | A lot of drivers has their options described inside of |
| 70 | Documentation/scsi/. |
| 71 | SELINUX SELinux support is enabled. |
| 72 | SERIAL Serial support is enabled. |
| 73 | SMP The kernel is an SMP kernel. |
| 74 | SPARC Sparc architecture is enabled. |
Randy Dunlap | a991304 | 2005-10-23 12:57:11 -0700 | [diff] [blame] | 75 | SWSUSP Software suspend is enabled. |
Linus Torvalds | 1da177e | 2005-04-16 15:20:36 -0700 | [diff] [blame] | 76 | TS Appropriate touchscreen support is enabled. |
| 77 | USB USB support is enabled. |
| 78 | USBHID USB Human Interface Device support is enabled. |
| 79 | V4L Video For Linux support is enabled. |
| 80 | VGA The VGA console has been enabled. |
| 81 | VT Virtual terminal support is enabled. |
| 82 | WDT Watchdog support is enabled. |
| 83 | XT IBM PC/XT MFM hard disk support is enabled. |
| 84 | X86-64 X86-64 architecture is enabled. |
| 85 | More X86-64 boot options can be found in |
| 86 | Documentation/x86_64/boot-options.txt . |
| 87 | |
| 88 | In addition, the following text indicates that the option: |
| 89 | |
| 90 | BUGS= Relates to possible processor bugs on the said processor. |
| 91 | KNL Is a kernel start-up parameter. |
| 92 | BOOT Is a boot loader parameter. |
| 93 | |
| 94 | Parameters denoted with BOOT are actually interpreted by the boot |
| 95 | loader, and have no meaning to the kernel directly. |
| 96 | Do not modify the syntax of boot loader parameters without extreme |
| 97 | need or coordination with <Documentation/i386/boot.txt>. |
| 98 | |
| 99 | Note that ALL kernel parameters listed below are CASE SENSITIVE, and that |
| 100 | a trailing = on the name of any parameter states that that parameter will |
| 101 | be entered as an environment variable, whereas its absence indicates that |
| 102 | it will appear as a kernel argument readable via /proc/cmdline by programs |
| 103 | running once the system is up. |
| 104 | |
| 105 | 53c7xx= [HW,SCSI] Amiga SCSI controllers |
| 106 | See header of drivers/scsi/53c7xx.c. |
| 107 | See also Documentation/scsi/ncr53c7xx.txt. |
| 108 | |
Randy Dunlap | a991304 | 2005-10-23 12:57:11 -0700 | [diff] [blame] | 109 | acpi= [HW,ACPI] Advanced Configuration and Power Interface |
| 110 | Format: { force | off | ht | strict | noirq } |
Linus Torvalds | 1da177e | 2005-04-16 15:20:36 -0700 | [diff] [blame] | 111 | force -- enable ACPI if default was off |
| 112 | off -- disable ACPI if default was on |
| 113 | noirq -- do not use ACPI for IRQ routing |
| 114 | ht -- run only enough ACPI to enable Hyper Threading |
Randy Dunlap | a991304 | 2005-10-23 12:57:11 -0700 | [diff] [blame] | 115 | strict -- Be less tolerant of platforms that are not |
Linus Torvalds | 1da177e | 2005-04-16 15:20:36 -0700 | [diff] [blame] | 116 | strictly ACPI specification compliant. |
| 117 | |
| 118 | See also Documentation/pm.txt, pci=noacpi |
| 119 | |
| 120 | acpi_sleep= [HW,ACPI] Sleep options |
| 121 | Format: { s3_bios, s3_mode } |
| 122 | See Documentation/power/video.txt |
Randy Dunlap | a991304 | 2005-10-23 12:57:11 -0700 | [diff] [blame] | 123 | |
Linus Torvalds | 1da177e | 2005-04-16 15:20:36 -0700 | [diff] [blame] | 124 | acpi_sci= [HW,ACPI] ACPI System Control Interrupt trigger mode |
Randy Dunlap | a991304 | 2005-10-23 12:57:11 -0700 | [diff] [blame] | 125 | Format: { level | edge | high | low } |
Linus Torvalds | 1da177e | 2005-04-16 15:20:36 -0700 | [diff] [blame] | 126 | |
Randy Dunlap | a991304 | 2005-10-23 12:57:11 -0700 | [diff] [blame] | 127 | acpi_irq_balance [HW,ACPI] |
| 128 | ACPI will balance active IRQs |
| 129 | default in APIC mode |
Linus Torvalds | 1da177e | 2005-04-16 15:20:36 -0700 | [diff] [blame] | 130 | |
Randy Dunlap | a991304 | 2005-10-23 12:57:11 -0700 | [diff] [blame] | 131 | acpi_irq_nobalance [HW,ACPI] |
| 132 | ACPI will not move active IRQs (default) |
| 133 | default in PIC mode |
Linus Torvalds | 1da177e | 2005-04-16 15:20:36 -0700 | [diff] [blame] | 134 | |
Randy Dunlap | a991304 | 2005-10-23 12:57:11 -0700 | [diff] [blame] | 135 | acpi_irq_pci= [HW,ACPI] If irq_balance, clear listed IRQs for |
| 136 | use by PCI |
Linus Torvalds | 1da177e | 2005-04-16 15:20:36 -0700 | [diff] [blame] | 137 | Format: <irq>,<irq>... |
| 138 | |
Randy Dunlap | a991304 | 2005-10-23 12:57:11 -0700 | [diff] [blame] | 139 | acpi_irq_isa= [HW,ACPI] If irq_balance, mark listed IRQs used by ISA |
Linus Torvalds | 1da177e | 2005-04-16 15:20:36 -0700 | [diff] [blame] | 140 | Format: <irq>,<irq>... |
| 141 | |
| 142 | acpi_osi= [HW,ACPI] empty param disables _OSI |
| 143 | |
| 144 | acpi_serialize [HW,ACPI] force serialization of AML methods |
| 145 | |
| 146 | acpi_skip_timer_override [HW,ACPI] |
| 147 | Recognize and ignore IRQ0/pin2 Interrupt Override. |
| 148 | For broken nForce2 BIOS resulting in XT-PIC timer. |
| 149 | |
| 150 | acpi_dbg_layer= [HW,ACPI] |
| 151 | Format: <int> |
Randy Dunlap | a991304 | 2005-10-23 12:57:11 -0700 | [diff] [blame] | 152 | Each bit of the <int> indicates an ACPI debug layer, |
Linus Torvalds | 1da177e | 2005-04-16 15:20:36 -0700 | [diff] [blame] | 153 | 1: enable, 0: disable. It is useful for boot time |
| 154 | debugging. After system has booted up, it can be set |
| 155 | via /proc/acpi/debug_layer. |
| 156 | |
| 157 | acpi_dbg_level= [HW,ACPI] |
| 158 | Format: <int> |
Randy Dunlap | a991304 | 2005-10-23 12:57:11 -0700 | [diff] [blame] | 159 | Each bit of the <int> indicates an ACPI debug level, |
Linus Torvalds | 1da177e | 2005-04-16 15:20:36 -0700 | [diff] [blame] | 160 | 1: enable, 0: disable. It is useful for boot time |
| 161 | debugging. After system has booted up, it can be set |
| 162 | via /proc/acpi/debug_level. |
| 163 | |
| 164 | acpi_fake_ecdt [HW,ACPI] Workaround failure due to BIOS lacking ECDT |
| 165 | |
Luming Yu | 30e332f | 2005-08-12 00:31:00 -0400 | [diff] [blame] | 166 | acpi_generic_hotkey [HW,ACPI] |
| 167 | Allow consolidated generic hotkey driver to |
Randy Dunlap | a991304 | 2005-10-23 12:57:11 -0700 | [diff] [blame] | 168 | override platform specific driver. |
Luming Yu | 30e332f | 2005-08-12 00:31:00 -0400 | [diff] [blame] | 169 | See also Documentation/acpi-hotkey.txt. |
| 170 | |
Chuck Ebbert | 66759a0 | 2005-09-12 18:49:25 +0200 | [diff] [blame] | 171 | enable_timer_pin_1 [i386,x86-64] |
| 172 | Enable PIN 1 of APIC timer |
Randy Dunlap | a991304 | 2005-10-23 12:57:11 -0700 | [diff] [blame] | 173 | Can be useful to work around chipset bugs |
| 174 | (in particular on some ATI chipsets). |
Chuck Ebbert | 66759a0 | 2005-09-12 18:49:25 +0200 | [diff] [blame] | 175 | The kernel tries to set a reasonable default. |
| 176 | |
| 177 | disable_timer_pin_1 [i386,x86-64] |
| 178 | Disable PIN 1 of APIC timer |
| 179 | Can be useful to work around chipset bugs. |
| 180 | |
Linus Torvalds | 1da177e | 2005-04-16 15:20:36 -0700 | [diff] [blame] | 181 | ad1816= [HW,OSS] |
| 182 | Format: <io>,<irq>,<dma>,<dma2> |
| 183 | See also Documentation/sound/oss/AD1816. |
| 184 | |
| 185 | ad1848= [HW,OSS] |
| 186 | Format: <io>,<irq>,<dma>,<dma2>,<type> |
| 187 | |
| 188 | adlib= [HW,OSS] |
| 189 | Format: <io> |
Randy Dunlap | a991304 | 2005-10-23 12:57:11 -0700 | [diff] [blame] | 190 | |
Linus Torvalds | 1da177e | 2005-04-16 15:20:36 -0700 | [diff] [blame] | 191 | advansys= [HW,SCSI] |
| 192 | See header of drivers/scsi/advansys.c. |
| 193 | |
| 194 | advwdt= [HW,WDT] Advantech WDT |
| 195 | Format: <iostart>,<iostop> |
| 196 | |
| 197 | aedsp16= [HW,OSS] Audio Excel DSP 16 |
| 198 | Format: <io>,<irq>,<dma>,<mss_io>,<mpu_io>,<mpu_irq> |
| 199 | See also header of sound/oss/aedsp16.c. |
Randy Dunlap | a991304 | 2005-10-23 12:57:11 -0700 | [diff] [blame] | 200 | |
Linus Torvalds | 1da177e | 2005-04-16 15:20:36 -0700 | [diff] [blame] | 201 | aha152x= [HW,SCSI] |
| 202 | See Documentation/scsi/aha152x.txt. |
| 203 | |
| 204 | aha1542= [HW,SCSI] |
| 205 | Format: <portbase>[,<buson>,<busoff>[,<dmaspeed>]] |
| 206 | |
| 207 | aic7xxx= [HW,SCSI] |
| 208 | See Documentation/scsi/aic7xxx.txt. |
| 209 | |
| 210 | aic79xx= [HW,SCSI] |
| 211 | See Documentation/scsi/aic79xx.txt. |
| 212 | |
Linus Torvalds | 1da177e | 2005-04-16 15:20:36 -0700 | [diff] [blame] | 213 | amijoy.map= [HW,JOY] Amiga joystick support |
| 214 | Map of devices attached to JOY0DAT and JOY1DAT |
| 215 | Format: <a>,<b> |
| 216 | See also Documentation/kernel/input/joystick.txt |
| 217 | |
| 218 | analog.map= [HW,JOY] Analog joystick and gamepad support |
| 219 | Specifies type or capabilities of an analog joystick |
| 220 | connected to one of 16 gameports |
| 221 | Format: <type1>,<type2>,..<type16> |
| 222 | |
Randy Dunlap | a991304 | 2005-10-23 12:57:11 -0700 | [diff] [blame] | 223 | apc= [HW,SPARC] |
| 224 | Power management functions (SPARCstation-4/5 + deriv.) |
Linus Torvalds | 1da177e | 2005-04-16 15:20:36 -0700 | [diff] [blame] | 225 | Format: noidle |
| 226 | Disable APC CPU standby support. SPARCstation-Fox does |
| 227 | not play well with APC CPU idle - disable it if you have |
| 228 | APC and your system crashes randomly. |
| 229 | |
Randy Dunlap | a991304 | 2005-10-23 12:57:11 -0700 | [diff] [blame] | 230 | apic= [APIC,i386] Change the output verbosity whilst booting |
Linus Torvalds | 1da177e | 2005-04-16 15:20:36 -0700 | [diff] [blame] | 231 | Format: { quiet (default) | verbose | debug } |
| 232 | Change the amount of debugging information output |
| 233 | when initialising the APIC and IO-APIC components. |
Randy Dunlap | a991304 | 2005-10-23 12:57:11 -0700 | [diff] [blame] | 234 | |
Linus Torvalds | 1da177e | 2005-04-16 15:20:36 -0700 | [diff] [blame] | 235 | apm= [APM] Advanced Power Management |
| 236 | See header of arch/i386/kernel/apm.c. |
| 237 | |
| 238 | applicom= [HW] |
| 239 | Format: <mem>,<irq> |
Randy Dunlap | a991304 | 2005-10-23 12:57:11 -0700 | [diff] [blame] | 240 | |
Linus Torvalds | 1da177e | 2005-04-16 15:20:36 -0700 | [diff] [blame] | 241 | arcrimi= [HW,NET] ARCnet - "RIM I" (entirely mem-mapped) cards |
| 242 | Format: <io>,<irq>,<nodeID> |
| 243 | |
| 244 | ataflop= [HW,M68k] |
| 245 | |
| 246 | atarimouse= [HW,MOUSE] Atari Mouse |
| 247 | |
| 248 | atascsi= [HW,SCSI] Atari SCSI |
| 249 | |
| 250 | atkbd.extra= [HW] Enable extra LEDs and keys on IBM RapidAccess, |
| 251 | EzKey and similar keyboards |
| 252 | |
| 253 | atkbd.reset= [HW] Reset keyboard during initialization |
| 254 | |
Randy Dunlap | a991304 | 2005-10-23 12:57:11 -0700 | [diff] [blame] | 255 | atkbd.set= [HW] Select keyboard code set |
| 256 | Format: <int> (2 = AT (default), 3 = PS/2) |
Linus Torvalds | 1da177e | 2005-04-16 15:20:36 -0700 | [diff] [blame] | 257 | |
| 258 | atkbd.scroll= [HW] Enable scroll wheel on MS Office and similar |
| 259 | keyboards |
| 260 | |
| 261 | atkbd.softraw= [HW] Choose between synthetic and real raw mode |
| 262 | Format: <bool> (0 = real, 1 = synthetic (default)) |
Randy Dunlap | a991304 | 2005-10-23 12:57:11 -0700 | [diff] [blame] | 263 | |
| 264 | atkbd.softrepeat= [HW] |
| 265 | Use software keyboard repeat |
Linus Torvalds | 1da177e | 2005-04-16 15:20:36 -0700 | [diff] [blame] | 266 | |
| 267 | autotest [IA64] |
| 268 | |
| 269 | awe= [HW,OSS] AWE32/SB32/AWE64 wave table synth |
| 270 | Format: <io>,<memsize>,<isapnp> |
Randy Dunlap | a991304 | 2005-10-23 12:57:11 -0700 | [diff] [blame] | 271 | |
Linus Torvalds | 1da177e | 2005-04-16 15:20:36 -0700 | [diff] [blame] | 272 | aztcd= [HW,CD] Aztech CD268 CDROM driver |
| 273 | Format: <io>,0x79 (?) |
| 274 | |
| 275 | baycom_epp= [HW,AX25] |
| 276 | Format: <io>,<mode> |
Randy Dunlap | a991304 | 2005-10-23 12:57:11 -0700 | [diff] [blame] | 277 | |
Linus Torvalds | 1da177e | 2005-04-16 15:20:36 -0700 | [diff] [blame] | 278 | baycom_par= [HW,AX25] BayCom Parallel Port AX.25 Modem |
| 279 | Format: <io>,<mode> |
| 280 | See header of drivers/net/hamradio/baycom_par.c. |
| 281 | |
Randy Dunlap | a991304 | 2005-10-23 12:57:11 -0700 | [diff] [blame] | 282 | baycom_ser_fdx= [HW,AX25] |
| 283 | BayCom Serial Port AX.25 Modem (Full Duplex Mode) |
Linus Torvalds | 1da177e | 2005-04-16 15:20:36 -0700 | [diff] [blame] | 284 | Format: <io>,<irq>,<mode>[,<baud>] |
| 285 | See header of drivers/net/hamradio/baycom_ser_fdx.c. |
| 286 | |
Randy Dunlap | a991304 | 2005-10-23 12:57:11 -0700 | [diff] [blame] | 287 | baycom_ser_hdx= [HW,AX25] |
| 288 | BayCom Serial Port AX.25 Modem (Half Duplex Mode) |
Linus Torvalds | 1da177e | 2005-04-16 15:20:36 -0700 | [diff] [blame] | 289 | Format: <io>,<irq>,<mode> |
| 290 | See header of drivers/net/hamradio/baycom_ser_hdx.c. |
| 291 | |
| 292 | blkmtd_device= [HW,MTD] |
| 293 | blkmtd_erasesz= |
| 294 | blkmtd_ro= |
| 295 | blkmtd_bs= |
| 296 | blkmtd_count= |
| 297 | |
| 298 | bttv.card= [HW,V4L] bttv (bt848 + bt878 based grabber cards) |
Randy Dunlap | a991304 | 2005-10-23 12:57:11 -0700 | [diff] [blame] | 299 | bttv.radio= Most important insmod options are available as |
| 300 | kernel args too. |
Linus Torvalds | 1da177e | 2005-04-16 15:20:36 -0700 | [diff] [blame] | 301 | bttv.pll= See Documentation/video4linux/bttv/Insmod-options |
| 302 | bttv.tuner= and Documentation/video4linux/bttv/CARDLIST |
| 303 | |
| 304 | BusLogic= [HW,SCSI] |
| 305 | See drivers/scsi/BusLogic.c, comment before function |
| 306 | BusLogic_ParseDriverOptions(). |
| 307 | |
| 308 | c101= [NET] Moxa C101 synchronous serial card |
| 309 | |
| 310 | cachesize= [BUGS=IA-32] Override level 2 CPU cache size detection. |
| 311 | Sometimes CPU hardware bugs make them report the cache |
| 312 | size incorrectly. The kernel will attempt work arounds |
| 313 | to fix known problems, but for some CPUs it is not |
| 314 | possible to determine what the correct size should be. |
| 315 | This option provides an override for these situations. |
| 316 | |
| 317 | cdu31a= [HW,CD] |
| 318 | Format: <io>,<irq>[,PAS] |
| 319 | See header of drivers/cdrom/cdu31a.c. |
| 320 | |
| 321 | chandev= [HW,NET] Generic channel device initialisation |
| 322 | |
| 323 | checkreqprot [SELINUX] Set initial checkreqprot flag value. |
| 324 | Format: { "0" | "1" } |
| 325 | See security/selinux/Kconfig help text. |
Randy Dunlap | a991304 | 2005-10-23 12:57:11 -0700 | [diff] [blame] | 326 | 0 -- check protection applied by kernel (includes |
| 327 | any implied execute protection). |
Linus Torvalds | 1da177e | 2005-04-16 15:20:36 -0700 | [diff] [blame] | 328 | 1 -- check protection requested by application. |
| 329 | Default value is set via a kernel config option. |
Randy Dunlap | a991304 | 2005-10-23 12:57:11 -0700 | [diff] [blame] | 330 | Value can be changed at runtime via |
| 331 | /selinux/checkreqprot. |
| 332 | |
| 333 | clock= [BUGS=IA-32,HW] gettimeofday timesource override. |
Linus Torvalds | 1da177e | 2005-04-16 15:20:36 -0700 | [diff] [blame] | 334 | Forces specified timesource (if avaliable) to be used |
Randy Dunlap | a991304 | 2005-10-23 12:57:11 -0700 | [diff] [blame] | 335 | when calculating gettimeofday(). If specicified |
| 336 | timesource is not avalible, it defaults to PIT. |
Linus Torvalds | 1da177e | 2005-04-16 15:20:36 -0700 | [diff] [blame] | 337 | Format: { pit | tsc | cyclone | pmtmr } |
| 338 | |
Andi Kleen | f9262c1 | 2006-03-08 17:57:25 -0800 | [diff] [blame] | 339 | disable_8254_timer |
| 340 | enable_8254_timer |
| 341 | [IA32/X86_64] Disable/Enable interrupt 0 timer routing |
| 342 | over the 8254 in addition to over the IO-APIC. The |
| 343 | kernel tries to set a sensible default. |
| 344 | |
Linus Torvalds | 1da177e | 2005-04-16 15:20:36 -0700 | [diff] [blame] | 345 | hpet= [IA-32,HPET] option to disable HPET and use PIT. |
| 346 | Format: disable |
| 347 | |
| 348 | cm206= [HW,CD] |
| 349 | Format: { auto | [<io>,][<irq>] } |
| 350 | |
| 351 | com20020= [HW,NET] ARCnet - COM20020 chipset |
Randy Dunlap | a991304 | 2005-10-23 12:57:11 -0700 | [diff] [blame] | 352 | Format: |
| 353 | <io>[,<irq>[,<nodeID>[,<backplane>[,<ckp>[,<timeout>]]]]] |
Linus Torvalds | 1da177e | 2005-04-16 15:20:36 -0700 | [diff] [blame] | 354 | |
| 355 | com90io= [HW,NET] ARCnet - COM90xx chipset (IO-mapped buffers) |
| 356 | Format: <io>[,<irq>] |
| 357 | |
Randy Dunlap | a991304 | 2005-10-23 12:57:11 -0700 | [diff] [blame] | 358 | com90xx= [HW,NET] |
| 359 | ARCnet - COM90xx chipset (memory-mapped buffers) |
Linus Torvalds | 1da177e | 2005-04-16 15:20:36 -0700 | [diff] [blame] | 360 | Format: <io>[,<irq>[,<memstart>]] |
| 361 | |
| 362 | condev= [HW,S390] console device |
| 363 | conmode= |
Randy Dunlap | a991304 | 2005-10-23 12:57:11 -0700 | [diff] [blame] | 364 | |
Linus Torvalds | 1da177e | 2005-04-16 15:20:36 -0700 | [diff] [blame] | 365 | console= [KNL] Output console device and options. |
| 366 | |
| 367 | tty<n> Use the virtual console device <n>. |
| 368 | |
| 369 | ttyS<n>[,options] |
Randy Dunlap | f1a1c2d | 2006-03-25 03:08:17 -0800 | [diff] [blame] | 370 | ttyUSB0[,options] |
Linus Torvalds | 1da177e | 2005-04-16 15:20:36 -0700 | [diff] [blame] | 371 | Use the specified serial port. The options are of |
Randy Dunlap | f1a1c2d | 2006-03-25 03:08:17 -0800 | [diff] [blame] | 372 | the form "bbbbpnf", where "bbbb" is the baud rate, |
| 373 | "p" is parity ("n", "o", or "e"), "n" is number of |
| 374 | bits, and "f" is flow control ("r" for RTS or |
| 375 | omit it). Default is "9600n8". |
Linus Torvalds | 1da177e | 2005-04-16 15:20:36 -0700 | [diff] [blame] | 376 | |
Randy Dunlap | f1a1c2d | 2006-03-25 03:08:17 -0800 | [diff] [blame] | 377 | See Documentation/serial-console.txt for more |
| 378 | information. See |
| 379 | Documentation/networking/netconsole.txt for an |
| 380 | alternative. |
Linus Torvalds | 1da177e | 2005-04-16 15:20:36 -0700 | [diff] [blame] | 381 | |
| 382 | uart,io,<addr>[,options] |
| 383 | uart,mmio,<addr>[,options] |
| 384 | Start an early, polled-mode console on the 8250/16550 |
| 385 | UART at the specified I/O port or MMIO address, |
| 386 | switching to the matching ttyS device later. The |
| 387 | options are the same as for ttyS, above. |
| 388 | |
| 389 | cpcihp_generic= [HW,PCI] Generic port I/O CompactPCI driver |
Randy Dunlap | a991304 | 2005-10-23 12:57:11 -0700 | [diff] [blame] | 390 | Format: |
| 391 | <first_slot>,<last_slot>,<port>,<enum_bit>[,<debug>] |
Linus Torvalds | 1da177e | 2005-04-16 15:20:36 -0700 | [diff] [blame] | 392 | |
| 393 | cpia_pp= [HW,PPT] |
| 394 | Format: { parport<nr> | auto | none } |
| 395 | |
Eric W. Biederman | dc009d9 | 2005-06-25 14:57:52 -0700 | [diff] [blame] | 396 | crashkernel=nn[KMG]@ss[KMG] |
| 397 | [KNL] Reserve a chunk of physical memory to |
| 398 | hold a kernel to switch to with kexec on panic. |
| 399 | |
Linus Torvalds | 1da177e | 2005-04-16 15:20:36 -0700 | [diff] [blame] | 400 | cs4232= [HW,OSS] |
| 401 | Format: <io>,<irq>,<dma>,<dma2>,<mpuio>,<mpuirq> |
| 402 | |
| 403 | cs89x0_dma= [HW,NET] |
| 404 | Format: <dma> |
| 405 | |
| 406 | cs89x0_media= [HW,NET] |
| 407 | Format: { rj45 | aui | bnc } |
Randy Dunlap | a991304 | 2005-10-23 12:57:11 -0700 | [diff] [blame] | 408 | |
Linus Torvalds | 1da177e | 2005-04-16 15:20:36 -0700 | [diff] [blame] | 409 | cyclades= [HW,SERIAL] Cyclades multi-serial port adapter. |
Randy Dunlap | a991304 | 2005-10-23 12:57:11 -0700 | [diff] [blame] | 410 | |
| 411 | dasd= [HW,NET] |
Linus Torvalds | 1da177e | 2005-04-16 15:20:36 -0700 | [diff] [blame] | 412 | See header of drivers/s390/block/dasd_devmap.c. |
| 413 | |
| 414 | db9.dev[2|3]= [HW,JOY] Multisystem joystick support via parallel port |
| 415 | (one device per port) |
| 416 | Format: <port#>,<type> |
| 417 | See also Documentation/input/joystick-parport.txt |
| 418 | |
| 419 | debug [KNL] Enable kernel debugging (events log level). |
| 420 | |
| 421 | decnet= [HW,NET] |
| 422 | Format: <area>[,<node>] |
| 423 | See also Documentation/networking/decnet.txt. |
| 424 | |
| 425 | devfs= [DEVFS] |
| 426 | See Documentation/filesystems/devfs/boot-options. |
| 427 | |
| 428 | dhash_entries= [KNL] |
| 429 | Set number of hash buckets for dentry cache. |
Randy Dunlap | a991304 | 2005-10-23 12:57:11 -0700 | [diff] [blame] | 430 | |
Linus Torvalds | 1da177e | 2005-04-16 15:20:36 -0700 | [diff] [blame] | 431 | digi= [HW,SERIAL] |
| 432 | IO parameters + enable/disable command. |
| 433 | |
| 434 | digiepca= [HW,SERIAL] |
| 435 | See drivers/char/README.epca and |
| 436 | Documentation/digiepca.txt. |
| 437 | |
| 438 | dmascc= [HW,AX25,SERIAL] AX.25 Z80SCC driver with DMA |
| 439 | support available. |
| 440 | Format: <io_dev0>[,<io_dev1>[,..<io_dev32>]] |
| 441 | |
| 442 | dmasound= [HW,OSS] Sound subsystem buffers |
| 443 | |
| 444 | dscc4.setup= [NET] |
| 445 | |
| 446 | dtc3181e= [HW,SCSI] |
| 447 | |
Randy Dunlap | a991304 | 2005-10-23 12:57:11 -0700 | [diff] [blame] | 448 | earlyprintk= [IA-32,X86-64] |
Linus Torvalds | 1da177e | 2005-04-16 15:20:36 -0700 | [diff] [blame] | 449 | earlyprintk=vga |
| 450 | earlyprintk=serial[,ttySn[,baudrate]] |
| 451 | |
Randy Dunlap | a991304 | 2005-10-23 12:57:11 -0700 | [diff] [blame] | 452 | Append ",keep" to not disable it when the real console |
Linus Torvalds | 1da177e | 2005-04-16 15:20:36 -0700 | [diff] [blame] | 453 | takes over. |
| 454 | |
| 455 | Only vga or serial at a time, not both. |
| 456 | |
| 457 | Currently only ttyS0 and ttyS1 are supported. |
| 458 | |
| 459 | Interaction with the standard serial driver is not |
| 460 | very good. |
| 461 | |
| 462 | The VGA output is eventually overwritten by the real |
| 463 | console. |
| 464 | |
| 465 | eata= [HW,SCSI] |
| 466 | |
Len Brown | 53f11d4 | 2005-12-05 16:46:36 -0500 | [diff] [blame] | 467 | ec_intr= [HW,ACPI] ACPI Embedded Controller interrupt mode |
| 468 | Format: <int> |
| 469 | 0: polling mode |
| 470 | non-0: interrupt mode (default) |
| 471 | |
Linus Torvalds | 1da177e | 2005-04-16 15:20:36 -0700 | [diff] [blame] | 472 | eda= [HW,PS2] |
| 473 | |
| 474 | edb= [HW,PS2] |
| 475 | |
| 476 | edd= [EDD] |
| 477 | Format: {"of[f]" | "sk[ipmbr]"} |
| 478 | See comment in arch/i386/boot/edd.S |
| 479 | |
Randy Dunlap | a991304 | 2005-10-23 12:57:11 -0700 | [diff] [blame] | 480 | eicon= [HW,ISDN] |
Linus Torvalds | 1da177e | 2005-04-16 15:20:36 -0700 | [diff] [blame] | 481 | Format: <id>,<membase>,<irq> |
| 482 | |
| 483 | eisa_irq_edge= [PARISC,HW] |
| 484 | See header of drivers/parisc/eisa.c. |
| 485 | |
| 486 | elanfreq= [IA-32] |
| 487 | See comment before function elanfreq_setup() in |
| 488 | arch/i386/kernel/cpu/cpufreq/elanfreq.c. |
| 489 | |
| 490 | elevator= [IOSCHED] |
Randy Dunlap | 16ab3ad | 2006-01-14 13:21:20 -0800 | [diff] [blame] | 491 | Format: {"anticipatory" | "cfq" | "deadline" | "noop"} |
Randy Dunlap | a991304 | 2005-10-23 12:57:11 -0700 | [diff] [blame] | 492 | See Documentation/block/as-iosched.txt and |
| 493 | Documentation/block/deadline-iosched.txt for details. |
| 494 | |
Vivek Goyal | aac04b3 | 2006-01-09 20:51:47 -0800 | [diff] [blame] | 495 | elfcorehdr= [IA-32, X86_64] |
Randy Dunlap | a991304 | 2005-10-23 12:57:11 -0700 | [diff] [blame] | 496 | Specifies physical address of start of kernel core |
Vivek Goyal | aac04b3 | 2006-01-09 20:51:47 -0800 | [diff] [blame] | 497 | image elf header. Generally kexec loader will |
| 498 | pass this option to capture kernel. |
| 499 | See Documentation/kdump/kdump.txt for details. |
Linus Torvalds | 1da177e | 2005-04-16 15:20:36 -0700 | [diff] [blame] | 500 | |
| 501 | enforcing [SELINUX] Set initial enforcing status. |
| 502 | Format: {"0" | "1"} |
| 503 | See security/selinux/Kconfig help text. |
| 504 | 0 -- permissive (log only, no denials). |
| 505 | 1 -- enforcing (deny and log). |
| 506 | Default value is 0. |
| 507 | Value can be changed at runtime via /selinux/enforce. |
| 508 | |
| 509 | es1370= [HW,OSS] |
| 510 | Format: <lineout>[,<micbias>] |
| 511 | See also header of sound/oss/es1370.c. |
| 512 | |
| 513 | es1371= [HW,OSS] |
| 514 | Format: <spdif>,[<nomix>,[<amplifier>]] |
| 515 | See also header of sound/oss/es1371.c. |
Randy Dunlap | a991304 | 2005-10-23 12:57:11 -0700 | [diff] [blame] | 516 | |
Linus Torvalds | 1da177e | 2005-04-16 15:20:36 -0700 | [diff] [blame] | 517 | ether= [HW,NET] Ethernet cards parameters |
| 518 | This option is obsoleted by the "netdev=" option, which |
| 519 | has equivalent usage. See its documentation for details. |
| 520 | |
| 521 | eurwdt= [HW,WDT] Eurotech CPU-1220/1410 onboard watchdog. |
| 522 | Format: <io>[,<irq>] |
| 523 | |
| 524 | fd_mcs= [HW,SCSI] |
| 525 | See header of drivers/scsi/fd_mcs.c. |
| 526 | |
| 527 | fdomain= [HW,SCSI] |
| 528 | See header of drivers/scsi/fdomain.c. |
| 529 | |
| 530 | floppy= [HW] |
| 531 | See Documentation/floppy.txt. |
| 532 | |
| 533 | ftape= [HW] Floppy Tape subsystem debugging options. |
| 534 | See Documentation/ftape.txt. |
| 535 | |
| 536 | gamecon.map[2|3]= |
| 537 | [HW,JOY] Multisystem joystick and NES/SNES/PSX pad |
| 538 | support via parallel port (up to 5 devices per port) |
| 539 | Format: <port#>,<pad1>,<pad2>,<pad3>,<pad4>,<pad5> |
| 540 | See also Documentation/input/joystick-parport.txt |
| 541 | |
| 542 | gamma= [HW,DRM] |
| 543 | |
| 544 | gdth= [HW,SCSI] |
| 545 | See header of drivers/scsi/gdth.c. |
| 546 | |
| 547 | gpt [EFI] Forces disk with valid GPT signature but |
| 548 | invalid Protective MBR to be treated as GPT. |
| 549 | |
| 550 | gscd= [HW,CD] |
| 551 | Format: <io> |
| 552 | |
| 553 | gt96100eth= [NET] MIPS GT96100 Advanced Communication Controller |
| 554 | |
| 555 | gus= [HW,OSS] |
| 556 | Format: <io>,<irq>,<dma>,<dma16> |
Randy Dunlap | a991304 | 2005-10-23 12:57:11 -0700 | [diff] [blame] | 557 | |
Linus Torvalds | 1da177e | 2005-04-16 15:20:36 -0700 | [diff] [blame] | 558 | gvp11= [HW,SCSI] |
| 559 | |
| 560 | hashdist= [KNL,NUMA] Large hashes allocated during boot |
| 561 | are distributed across NUMA nodes. Defaults on |
| 562 | for IA-64, off otherwise. |
Randy Dunlap | a991304 | 2005-10-23 12:57:11 -0700 | [diff] [blame] | 563 | Format: 0 | 1 (for off | on) |
Linus Torvalds | 1da177e | 2005-04-16 15:20:36 -0700 | [diff] [blame] | 564 | |
| 565 | hcl= [IA-64] SGI's Hardware Graph compatibility layer |
| 566 | |
| 567 | hd= [EIDE] (E)IDE hard drive subsystem geometry |
| 568 | Format: <cyl>,<head>,<sect> |
| 569 | |
| 570 | hd?= [HW] (E)IDE subsystem |
| 571 | hd?lun= See Documentation/ide.txt. |
| 572 | |
| 573 | highmem=nn[KMG] [KNL,BOOT] forces the highmem zone to have an exact |
| 574 | size of <nn>. This works even on boxes that have no |
| 575 | highmem otherwise. This also works to reduce highmem |
| 576 | size on bigger boxes. |
| 577 | |
| 578 | hisax= [HW,ISDN] |
| 579 | See Documentation/isdn/README.HiSax. |
| 580 | |
| 581 | hugepages= [HW,IA-32,IA-64] Maximal number of HugeTLB pages. |
| 582 | |
| 583 | noirqbalance [IA-32,SMP,KNL] Disable kernel irq balancing |
| 584 | |
| 585 | i8042.direct [HW] Put keyboard port into non-translated mode |
| 586 | i8042.dumbkbd [HW] Pretend that controlled can only read data from |
| 587 | keyboard and can not control its state |
| 588 | (Don't attempt to blink the leds) |
| 589 | i8042.noaux [HW] Don't check for auxiliary (== mouse) port |
Dmitry Torokhov | 945ef0d | 2005-09-04 01:42:00 -0500 | [diff] [blame] | 590 | i8042.nokbd [HW] Don't check/create keyboard port |
Linus Torvalds | 1da177e | 2005-04-16 15:20:36 -0700 | [diff] [blame] | 591 | i8042.nomux [HW] Don't check presence of an active multiplexing |
| 592 | controller |
| 593 | i8042.nopnp [HW] Don't use ACPIPnP / PnPBIOS to discover KBD/AUX |
| 594 | controllers |
| 595 | i8042.panicblink= |
| 596 | [HW] Frequency with which keyboard LEDs should blink |
| 597 | when kernel panics (default is 0.5 sec) |
| 598 | i8042.reset [HW] Reset the controller during init and cleanup |
| 599 | i8042.unlock [HW] Unlock (ignore) the keylock |
| 600 | |
| 601 | i810= [HW,DRM] |
| 602 | |
Dmitry Torokhov | e70c9d5 | 2005-06-25 14:54:25 -0700 | [diff] [blame] | 603 | i8k.ignore_dmi [HW] Continue probing hardware even if DMI data |
| 604 | indicates that the driver is running on unsupported |
| 605 | hardware. |
Linus Torvalds | 1da177e | 2005-04-16 15:20:36 -0700 | [diff] [blame] | 606 | i8k.force [HW] Activate i8k driver even if SMM BIOS signature |
| 607 | does not match list of supported models. |
| 608 | i8k.power_status |
| 609 | [HW] Report power status in /proc/i8k |
| 610 | (disabled by default) |
| 611 | i8k.restricted [HW] Allow controlling fans only if SYS_ADMIN |
| 612 | capability is set. |
| 613 | |
| 614 | ibmmcascsi= [HW,MCA,SCSI] IBM MicroChannel SCSI adapter |
| 615 | See Documentation/mca.txt. |
| 616 | |
| 617 | icn= [HW,ISDN] |
| 618 | Format: <io>[,<membase>[,<icn_id>[,<icn_id2>]]] |
| 619 | |
| 620 | ide= [HW] (E)IDE subsystem |
| 621 | Format: ide=nodma or ide=doubler or ide=reverse |
| 622 | See Documentation/ide.txt. |
| 623 | |
| 624 | ide?= [HW] (E)IDE subsystem |
| 625 | Format: ide?=noprobe or chipset specific parameters. |
| 626 | See Documentation/ide.txt. |
Randy Dunlap | a991304 | 2005-10-23 12:57:11 -0700 | [diff] [blame] | 627 | |
Linus Torvalds | 1da177e | 2005-04-16 15:20:36 -0700 | [diff] [blame] | 628 | idebus= [HW] (E)IDE subsystem - VLB/PCI bus speed |
| 629 | See Documentation/ide.txt. |
| 630 | |
| 631 | idle= [HW] |
| 632 | Format: idle=poll or idle=halt |
Randy Dunlap | a991304 | 2005-10-23 12:57:11 -0700 | [diff] [blame] | 633 | |
Linus Torvalds | 1da177e | 2005-04-16 15:20:36 -0700 | [diff] [blame] | 634 | ihash_entries= [KNL] |
| 635 | Set number of hash buckets for inode cache. |
| 636 | |
| 637 | in2000= [HW,SCSI] |
| 638 | See header of drivers/scsi/in2000.c. |
| 639 | |
| 640 | init= [KNL] |
| 641 | Format: <full_path> |
| 642 | Run specified binary instead of /sbin/init as init |
| 643 | process. |
| 644 | |
| 645 | initcall_debug [KNL] Trace initcalls as they are executed. Useful |
| 646 | for working out where the kernel is dying during |
| 647 | startup. |
| 648 | |
| 649 | initrd= [BOOT] Specify the location of the initial ramdisk |
| 650 | |
| 651 | inport.irq= [HW] Inport (ATI XL and Microsoft) busmouse driver |
| 652 | Format: <irq> |
| 653 | |
Jesse Barnes | 2bd0fa3 | 2005-12-13 03:05:03 -0500 | [diff] [blame] | 654 | combined_mode= [HW] control which driver uses IDE ports in combined |
| 655 | mode: legacy IDE driver, libata, or both |
| 656 | (in the libata case, libata.atapi_enabled=1 may be |
| 657 | useful as well). Note that using the ide or libata |
| 658 | options may affect your device naming (e.g. by |
| 659 | changing hdc to sdb). |
| 660 | Format: combined (default), ide, or libata |
| 661 | |
Linus Torvalds | 1da177e | 2005-04-16 15:20:36 -0700 | [diff] [blame] | 662 | inttest= [IA64] |
| 663 | |
| 664 | io7= [HW] IO7 for Marvel based alpha systems |
| 665 | See comment before marvel_specify_io7 in |
| 666 | arch/alpha/kernel/core_marvel.c. |
| 667 | |
| 668 | ip= [IP_PNP] |
| 669 | See Documentation/nfsroot.txt. |
| 670 | |
| 671 | ip2= [HW] Set IO/IRQ pairs for up to 4 IntelliPort boards |
| 672 | See comment before ip2_setup() in drivers/char/ip2.c. |
| 673 | |
| 674 | ips= [HW,SCSI] Adaptec / IBM ServeRAID controller |
| 675 | See header of drivers/scsi/ips.c. |
| 676 | |
Alan Cox | 200803d | 2005-06-28 20:45:18 -0700 | [diff] [blame] | 677 | irqfixup [HW] |
| 678 | When an interrupt is not handled search all handlers |
| 679 | for it. Intended to get systems with badly broken |
| 680 | firmware running. |
| 681 | |
| 682 | irqpoll [HW] |
| 683 | When an interrupt is not handled search all handlers |
| 684 | for it. Also check all handlers each timer |
| 685 | interrupt. Intended to get systems with badly broken |
| 686 | firmware running. |
| 687 | |
Linus Torvalds | 1da177e | 2005-04-16 15:20:36 -0700 | [diff] [blame] | 688 | isapnp= [ISAPNP] |
Randy Dunlap | a991304 | 2005-10-23 12:57:11 -0700 | [diff] [blame] | 689 | Format: <RDP>,<reset>,<pci_scan>,<verbosity> |
Linus Torvalds | 1da177e | 2005-04-16 15:20:36 -0700 | [diff] [blame] | 690 | |
| 691 | isolcpus= [KNL,SMP] Isolate CPUs from the general scheduler. |
| 692 | Format: <cpu number>,...,<cpu number> |
| 693 | This option can be used to specify one or more CPUs |
| 694 | to isolate from the general SMP balancing and scheduling |
| 695 | algorithms. The only way to move a process onto or off |
| 696 | an "isolated" CPU is via the CPU affinity syscalls. |
| 697 | <cpu number> begins at 0 and the maximum value is |
| 698 | "number of CPUs in system - 1". |
| 699 | |
| 700 | This option is the preferred way to isolate CPUs. The |
Randy Dunlap | a991304 | 2005-10-23 12:57:11 -0700 | [diff] [blame] | 701 | alternative -- manually setting the CPU mask of all |
| 702 | tasks in the system -- can cause problems and |
| 703 | suboptimal load balancer performance. |
Linus Torvalds | 1da177e | 2005-04-16 15:20:36 -0700 | [diff] [blame] | 704 | |
| 705 | isp16= [HW,CD] |
| 706 | Format: <io>,<irq>,<dma>,<setup> |
| 707 | |
Randy Dunlap | a991304 | 2005-10-23 12:57:11 -0700 | [diff] [blame] | 708 | iucv= [HW,NET] |
Linus Torvalds | 1da177e | 2005-04-16 15:20:36 -0700 | [diff] [blame] | 709 | |
| 710 | js= [HW,JOY] Analog joystick |
| 711 | See Documentation/input/joystick.txt. |
| 712 | |
| 713 | keepinitrd [HW,ARM] |
| 714 | |
Randy Dunlap | a991304 | 2005-10-23 12:57:11 -0700 | [diff] [blame] | 715 | kstack=N [IA-32,X86-64] Print N words from the kernel stack |
Linus Torvalds | 1da177e | 2005-04-16 15:20:36 -0700 | [diff] [blame] | 716 | in oops dumps. |
| 717 | |
| 718 | l2cr= [PPC] |
| 719 | |
Randy Dunlap | a991304 | 2005-10-23 12:57:11 -0700 | [diff] [blame] | 720 | lapic [IA-32,APIC] Enable the local APIC even if BIOS |
| 721 | disabled it. |
Linus Torvalds | 1da177e | 2005-04-16 15:20:36 -0700 | [diff] [blame] | 722 | |
| 723 | lasi= [HW,SCSI] PARISC LASI driver for the 53c700 chip |
| 724 | Format: addr:<io>,irq:<irq> |
| 725 | |
Randy Dunlap | a991304 | 2005-10-23 12:57:11 -0700 | [diff] [blame] | 726 | llsc*= [IA64] See function print_params() in |
| 727 | arch/ia64/sn/kernel/llsc4.c. |
Linus Torvalds | 1da177e | 2005-04-16 15:20:36 -0700 | [diff] [blame] | 728 | |
| 729 | load_ramdisk= [RAM] List of ramdisks to load from floppy |
| 730 | See Documentation/ramdisk.txt. |
| 731 | |
Randy Dunlap | a6b25b6 | 2006-01-14 13:21:19 -0800 | [diff] [blame] | 732 | lockd.nlm_grace_period=P [NFS] Assign grace period. |
| 733 | Format: <integer> |
Linus Torvalds | 1da177e | 2005-04-16 15:20:36 -0700 | [diff] [blame] | 734 | |
Randy Dunlap | a6b25b6 | 2006-01-14 13:21:19 -0800 | [diff] [blame] | 735 | lockd.nlm_tcpport=N [NFS] Assign TCP port. |
| 736 | Format: <integer> |
| 737 | |
| 738 | lockd.nlm_timeout=T [NFS] Assign timeout value. |
| 739 | Format: <integer> |
| 740 | |
| 741 | lockd.nlm_udpport=M [NFS] Assign UDP port. |
| 742 | Format: <integer> |
Linus Torvalds | 1da177e | 2005-04-16 15:20:36 -0700 | [diff] [blame] | 743 | |
| 744 | logibm.irq= [HW,MOUSE] Logitech Bus Mouse Driver |
| 745 | Format: <irq> |
| 746 | |
| 747 | loglevel= All Kernel Messages with a loglevel smaller than the |
| 748 | console loglevel will be printed to the console. It can |
| 749 | also be changed with klogd or other programs. The |
| 750 | loglevels are defined as follows: |
| 751 | |
| 752 | 0 (KERN_EMERG) system is unusable |
| 753 | 1 (KERN_ALERT) action must be taken immediately |
| 754 | 2 (KERN_CRIT) critical conditions |
| 755 | 3 (KERN_ERR) error conditions |
| 756 | 4 (KERN_WARNING) warning conditions |
| 757 | 5 (KERN_NOTICE) normal but significant condition |
| 758 | 6 (KERN_INFO) informational |
| 759 | 7 (KERN_DEBUG) debug-level messages |
| 760 | |
| 761 | log_buf_len=n Sets the size of the printk ring buffer, in bytes. |
Randy Dunlap | a991304 | 2005-10-23 12:57:11 -0700 | [diff] [blame] | 762 | Format: { n | nk | nM } |
| 763 | n must be a power of two. The default size |
| 764 | is set in the kernel config file. |
Linus Torvalds | 1da177e | 2005-04-16 15:20:36 -0700 | [diff] [blame] | 765 | |
| 766 | lp=0 [LP] Specify parallel ports to use, e.g, |
| 767 | lp=port[,port...] lp=none,parport0 (lp0 not configured, lp1 uses |
| 768 | lp=reset first parallel port). 'lp=0' disables the |
| 769 | lp=auto printer driver. 'lp=reset' (which can be |
| 770 | specified in addition to the ports) causes |
| 771 | attached printers to be reset. Using |
| 772 | lp=port1,port2,... specifies the parallel ports |
| 773 | to associate lp devices with, starting with |
| 774 | lp0. A port specification may be 'none' to skip |
| 775 | that lp device, or a parport name such as |
| 776 | 'parport0'. Specifying 'lp=auto' instead of a |
| 777 | port specification list means that device IDs |
| 778 | from each port should be examined, to see if |
| 779 | an IEEE 1284-compliant printer is attached; if |
| 780 | so, the driver will manage that printer. |
| 781 | See also header of drivers/char/lp.c. |
| 782 | |
| 783 | lpj=n [KNL] |
| 784 | Sets loops_per_jiffy to given constant, thus avoiding |
| 785 | time-consuming boot-time autodetection (up to 250 ms per |
| 786 | CPU). 0 enables autodetection (default). To determine |
| 787 | the correct value for your kernel, boot with normal |
| 788 | autodetection and see what value is printed. Note that |
| 789 | on SMP systems the preset will be applied to all CPUs, |
| 790 | which is likely to cause problems if your CPUs need |
| 791 | significantly divergent settings. An incorrect value |
| 792 | will cause delays in the kernel to be wrong, leading to |
| 793 | unpredictable I/O errors and other breakage. Although |
| 794 | unlikely, in the extreme case this might damage your |
| 795 | hardware. |
| 796 | |
| 797 | ltpc= [NET] |
| 798 | Format: <io>,<irq>,<dma> |
| 799 | |
Randy Dunlap | a991304 | 2005-10-23 12:57:11 -0700 | [diff] [blame] | 800 | mac5380= [HW,SCSI] Format: |
| 801 | <can_queue>,<cmd_per_lun>,<sg_tablesize>,<hostid>,<use_tags> |
Linus Torvalds | 1da177e | 2005-04-16 15:20:36 -0700 | [diff] [blame] | 802 | |
Randy Dunlap | a991304 | 2005-10-23 12:57:11 -0700 | [diff] [blame] | 803 | mac53c9x= [HW,SCSI] Format: |
| 804 | <num_esps>,<disconnect>,<nosync>,<can_queue>,<cmd_per_lun>,<sg_tablesize>,<hostid>,<use_tags> |
Linus Torvalds | 1da177e | 2005-04-16 15:20:36 -0700 | [diff] [blame] | 805 | |
Randy Dunlap | a991304 | 2005-10-23 12:57:11 -0700 | [diff] [blame] | 806 | machvec= [IA64] Force the use of a particular machine-vector |
| 807 | (machvec) in a generic kernel. |
| 808 | Example: machvec=hpzx1_swiotlb |
Linus Torvalds | 1da177e | 2005-04-16 15:20:36 -0700 | [diff] [blame] | 809 | |
Randy Dunlap | a991304 | 2005-10-23 12:57:11 -0700 | [diff] [blame] | 810 | mad16= [HW,OSS] Format: |
| 811 | <io>,<irq>,<dma>,<dma16>,<mpu_io>,<mpu_irq>,<joystick> |
Linus Torvalds | 1da177e | 2005-04-16 15:20:36 -0700 | [diff] [blame] | 812 | |
| 813 | maui= [HW,OSS] |
| 814 | Format: <io>,<irq> |
Randy Dunlap | a991304 | 2005-10-23 12:57:11 -0700 | [diff] [blame] | 815 | |
| 816 | max_loop= [LOOP] Maximum number of loopback devices that can |
Linus Torvalds | 1da177e | 2005-04-16 15:20:36 -0700 | [diff] [blame] | 817 | be mounted |
| 818 | Format: <1-256> |
| 819 | |
| 820 | maxcpus= [SMP] Maximum number of processors that an SMP kernel |
| 821 | should make use of |
| 822 | |
Bob Picco | 2b2c375 | 2005-06-29 18:00:00 -0700 | [diff] [blame] | 823 | max_addr=[KMG] [KNL,BOOT,ia64] All physical memory greater than or |
| 824 | equal to this physical address is ignored. |
| 825 | |
Randy Dunlap | a991304 | 2005-10-23 12:57:11 -0700 | [diff] [blame] | 826 | max_luns= [SCSI] Maximum number of LUNs to probe. |
Linus Torvalds | 1da177e | 2005-04-16 15:20:36 -0700 | [diff] [blame] | 827 | Should be between 1 and 2^32-1. |
| 828 | |
| 829 | max_report_luns= |
Randy Dunlap | a991304 | 2005-10-23 12:57:11 -0700 | [diff] [blame] | 830 | [SCSI] Maximum number of LUNs received. |
Linus Torvalds | 1da177e | 2005-04-16 15:20:36 -0700 | [diff] [blame] | 831 | Should be between 1 and 16384. |
| 832 | |
| 833 | mca-pentium [BUGS=IA-32] |
| 834 | |
| 835 | mcatest= [IA-64] |
| 836 | |
| 837 | mcd= [HW,CD] |
| 838 | Format: <port>,<irq>,<mitsumi_bug_93_wait> |
| 839 | |
| 840 | mcdx= [HW,CD] |
| 841 | |
| 842 | mce [IA-32] Machine Check Exception |
| 843 | |
| 844 | md= [HW] RAID subsystems devices and level |
| 845 | See Documentation/md.txt. |
Randy Dunlap | a991304 | 2005-10-23 12:57:11 -0700 | [diff] [blame] | 846 | |
Linus Torvalds | 1da177e | 2005-04-16 15:20:36 -0700 | [diff] [blame] | 847 | mdacon= [MDA] |
| 848 | Format: <first>,<last> |
| 849 | Specifies range of consoles to be captured by the MDA. |
Randy Dunlap | a991304 | 2005-10-23 12:57:11 -0700 | [diff] [blame] | 850 | |
Linus Torvalds | 1da177e | 2005-04-16 15:20:36 -0700 | [diff] [blame] | 851 | mem=nn[KMG] [KNL,BOOT] Force usage of a specific amount of memory |
| 852 | Amount of memory to be used when the kernel is not able |
| 853 | to see the whole system memory or for test. |
| 854 | [IA-32] Use together with memmap= to avoid physical |
| 855 | address space collisions. Without memmap= PCI devices |
| 856 | could be placed at addresses belonging to unused RAM. |
| 857 | |
| 858 | mem=nopentium [BUGS=IA-32] Disable usage of 4MB pages for kernel |
| 859 | memory. |
| 860 | |
akpm@osdl.org | 69cda7b | 2006-01-09 20:51:46 -0800 | [diff] [blame] | 861 | memmap=exactmap [KNL,IA-32,X86_64] Enable setting of an exact |
Linus Torvalds | 1da177e | 2005-04-16 15:20:36 -0700 | [diff] [blame] | 862 | E820 memory map, as specified by the user. |
| 863 | Such memmap=exactmap lines can be constructed based on |
| 864 | BIOS output or other requirements. See the memmap=nn@ss |
| 865 | option description. |
| 866 | |
| 867 | memmap=nn[KMG]@ss[KMG] |
| 868 | [KNL] Force usage of a specific region of memory |
| 869 | Region of memory to be used, from ss to ss+nn. |
| 870 | |
| 871 | memmap=nn[KMG]#ss[KMG] |
| 872 | [KNL,ACPI] Mark specific memory as ACPI data. |
| 873 | Region of memory to be used, from ss to ss+nn. |
| 874 | |
| 875 | memmap=nn[KMG]$ss[KMG] |
| 876 | [KNL,ACPI] Mark specific memory as reserved. |
| 877 | Region of memory to be used, from ss to ss+nn. |
| 878 | |
| 879 | meye.*= [HW] Set MotionEye Camera parameters |
| 880 | See Documentation/video4linux/meye.txt. |
| 881 | |
| 882 | mga= [HW,DRM] |
| 883 | |
akpm@osdl.org | 198e2f1 | 2006-01-12 01:05:30 -0800 | [diff] [blame] | 884 | migration_cost= |
| 885 | [KNL,SMP] debug: override scheduler migration costs |
| 886 | Format: <level-1-usecs>,<level-2-usecs>,... |
| 887 | This debugging option can be used to override the |
| 888 | default scheduler migration cost matrix. The numbers |
| 889 | are indexed by 'CPU domain distance'. |
| 890 | E.g. migration_cost=1000,2000,3000 on an SMT NUMA |
| 891 | box will set up an intra-core migration cost of |
| 892 | 1 msec, an inter-core migration cost of 2 msecs, |
| 893 | and an inter-node migration cost of 3 msecs. |
| 894 | |
| 895 | WARNING: using the wrong values here can break |
| 896 | scheduler performance, so it's only for scheduler |
| 897 | development purposes, not production environments. |
| 898 | |
| 899 | migration_debug= |
| 900 | [KNL,SMP] migration cost auto-detect verbosity |
| 901 | Format=<0|1|2> |
| 902 | If a system's migration matrix reported at bootup |
| 903 | seems erroneous then this option can be used to |
| 904 | increase verbosity of the detection process. |
| 905 | We default to 0 (no extra messages), 1 will print |
| 906 | some more information, and 2 will be really |
| 907 | verbose (probably only useful if you also have a |
| 908 | serial console attached to the system). |
| 909 | |
| 910 | migration_factor= |
| 911 | [KNL,SMP] multiply/divide migration costs by a factor |
| 912 | Format=<percent> |
| 913 | This debug option can be used to proportionally |
| 914 | increase or decrease the auto-detected migration |
| 915 | costs for all entries of the migration matrix. |
| 916 | E.g. migration_factor=150 will increase migration |
| 917 | costs by 50%. (and thus the scheduler will be less |
| 918 | eager migrating cache-hot tasks) |
| 919 | migration_factor=80 will decrease migration costs |
| 920 | by 20%. (thus the scheduler will be more eager to |
| 921 | migrate tasks) |
| 922 | |
| 923 | WARNING: using the wrong values here can break |
| 924 | scheduler performance, so it's only for scheduler |
| 925 | development purposes, not production environments. |
| 926 | |
Linus Torvalds | 1da177e | 2005-04-16 15:20:36 -0700 | [diff] [blame] | 927 | mousedev.tap_time= |
| 928 | [MOUSE] Maximum time between finger touching and |
| 929 | leaving touchpad surface for touch to be considered |
| 930 | a tap and be reported as a left button click (for |
| 931 | touchpads working in absolute mode only). |
| 932 | Format: <msecs> |
| 933 | mousedev.xres= [MOUSE] Horizontal screen resolution, used for devices |
| 934 | reporting absolute coordinates, such as tablets |
| 935 | mousedev.yres= [MOUSE] Vertical screen resolution, used for devices |
| 936 | reporting absolute coordinates, such as tablets |
| 937 | |
| 938 | mpu401= [HW,OSS] |
| 939 | Format: <io>,<irq> |
| 940 | |
| 941 | MTD_Partition= [MTD] |
| 942 | Format: <name>,<region-number>,<size>,<offset> |
| 943 | |
Randy Dunlap | a991304 | 2005-10-23 12:57:11 -0700 | [diff] [blame] | 944 | MTD_Region= [MTD] Format: |
| 945 | <name>,<region-number>[,<base>,<size>,<buswidth>,<altbuswidth>] |
Linus Torvalds | 1da177e | 2005-04-16 15:20:36 -0700 | [diff] [blame] | 946 | |
| 947 | mtdparts= [MTD] |
| 948 | See drivers/mtd/cmdline.c. |
| 949 | |
| 950 | mtouchusb.raw_coordinates= |
Randy Dunlap | a991304 | 2005-10-23 12:57:11 -0700 | [diff] [blame] | 951 | [HW] Make the MicroTouch USB driver use raw coordinates |
| 952 | ('y', default) or cooked coordinates ('n') |
Linus Torvalds | 1da177e | 2005-04-16 15:20:36 -0700 | [diff] [blame] | 953 | |
| 954 | n2= [NET] SDL Inc. RISCom/N2 synchronous serial card |
| 955 | |
| 956 | NCR_D700= [HW,SCSI] |
| 957 | See header of drivers/scsi/NCR_D700.c. |
| 958 | |
| 959 | ncr5380= [HW,SCSI] |
| 960 | |
| 961 | ncr53c400= [HW,SCSI] |
| 962 | |
| 963 | ncr53c400a= [HW,SCSI] |
| 964 | |
| 965 | ncr53c406a= [HW,SCSI] |
| 966 | |
| 967 | ncr53c8xx= [HW,SCSI] |
| 968 | |
| 969 | netdev= [NET] Network devices parameters |
| 970 | Format: <irq>,<io>,<mem_start>,<mem_end>,<name> |
| 971 | Note that mem_start is often overloaded to mean |
| 972 | something different and driver-specific. |
Randy Dunlap | a991304 | 2005-10-23 12:57:11 -0700 | [diff] [blame] | 973 | This usage is only documented in each driver source |
| 974 | file if at all. |
| 975 | |
Linus Torvalds | 1da177e | 2005-04-16 15:20:36 -0700 | [diff] [blame] | 976 | nfsaddrs= [NFS] |
| 977 | See Documentation/nfsroot.txt. |
| 978 | |
| 979 | nfsroot= [NFS] nfs root filesystem for disk-less boxes. |
| 980 | See Documentation/nfsroot.txt. |
| 981 | |
Trond Myklebust | a72b442 | 2006-01-03 09:55:41 +0100 | [diff] [blame] | 982 | nfs.callback_tcpport= |
| 983 | [NFS] set the TCP port on which the NFSv4 callback |
| 984 | channel should listen. |
| 985 | |
Trond Myklebust | 58df095 | 2006-01-03 09:55:57 +0100 | [diff] [blame] | 986 | nfs.idmap_cache_timeout= |
| 987 | [NFS] set the maximum lifetime for idmapper cache |
| 988 | entries. |
| 989 | |
Linus Torvalds | 1da177e | 2005-04-16 15:20:36 -0700 | [diff] [blame] | 990 | nmi_watchdog= [KNL,BUGS=IA-32] Debugging features for SMP kernels |
| 991 | |
| 992 | no387 [BUGS=IA-32] Tells the kernel to use the 387 maths |
| 993 | emulation library even if a 387 maths coprocessor |
| 994 | is present. |
| 995 | |
Randy Dunlap | a991304 | 2005-10-23 12:57:11 -0700 | [diff] [blame] | 996 | noalign [KNL,ARM] |
| 997 | |
Linus Torvalds | 1da177e | 2005-04-16 15:20:36 -0700 | [diff] [blame] | 998 | noapic [SMP,APIC] Tells the kernel to not make use of any |
| 999 | IOAPICs that may be present in the system. |
| 1000 | |
| 1001 | noasync [HW,M68K] Disables async and sync negotiation for |
| 1002 | all devices. |
| 1003 | |
| 1004 | nobats [PPC] Do not use BATs for mapping kernel lowmem |
| 1005 | on "Classic" PPC cores. |
| 1006 | |
| 1007 | nocache [ARM] |
Randy Dunlap | a991304 | 2005-10-23 12:57:11 -0700 | [diff] [blame] | 1008 | |
Linus Torvalds | 1da177e | 2005-04-16 15:20:36 -0700 | [diff] [blame] | 1009 | nodisconnect [HW,SCSI,M68K] Disables SCSI disconnects. |
| 1010 | |
| 1011 | noexec [IA-64] |
| 1012 | |
Randy Dunlap | a991304 | 2005-10-23 12:57:11 -0700 | [diff] [blame] | 1013 | noexec [IA-32,X86-64] |
Linus Torvalds | 1da177e | 2005-04-16 15:20:36 -0700 | [diff] [blame] | 1014 | noexec=on: enable non-executable mappings (default) |
| 1015 | noexec=off: disable nn-executable mappings |
| 1016 | |
Chuck Ebbert | 4f88651 | 2006-03-23 02:59:34 -0800 | [diff] [blame] | 1017 | nofxsr [BUGS=IA-32] Disables x86 floating point extended |
| 1018 | register save and restore. The kernel will only save |
| 1019 | legacy floating-point registers on task switch. |
Linus Torvalds | 1da177e | 2005-04-16 15:20:36 -0700 | [diff] [blame] | 1020 | |
| 1021 | nohlt [BUGS=ARM] |
Randy Dunlap | a991304 | 2005-10-23 12:57:11 -0700 | [diff] [blame] | 1022 | |
Linus Torvalds | 1da177e | 2005-04-16 15:20:36 -0700 | [diff] [blame] | 1023 | no-hlt [BUGS=IA-32] Tells the kernel that the hlt |
| 1024 | instruction doesn't work correctly and not to |
| 1025 | use it. |
| 1026 | |
| 1027 | nohalt [IA-64] Tells the kernel not to use the power saving |
| 1028 | function PAL_HALT_LIGHT when idle. This increases |
| 1029 | power-consumption. On the positive side, it reduces |
| 1030 | interrupt wake-up latency, which may improve performance |
| 1031 | in certain environments such as networked servers or |
| 1032 | real-time systems. |
| 1033 | |
| 1034 | noirqdebug [IA-32] Disables the code which attempts to detect and |
| 1035 | disable unhandled interrupt sources. |
| 1036 | |
| 1037 | noisapnp [ISAPNP] Disables ISA PnP code. |
| 1038 | |
| 1039 | noinitrd [RAM] Tells the kernel not to load any configured |
| 1040 | initial RAM disk. |
| 1041 | |
| 1042 | nointroute [IA-64] |
| 1043 | |
| 1044 | nolapic [IA-32,APIC] Do not enable or use the local APIC. |
| 1045 | |
| 1046 | noltlbs [PPC] Do not use large page/tlb entries for kernel |
| 1047 | lowmem mapping on PPC40x. |
| 1048 | |
| 1049 | nomce [IA-32] Machine Check Exception |
| 1050 | |
Horms | 312f1f0 | 2006-02-22 09:57:55 +0900 | [diff] [blame] | 1051 | nomca [IA-64] Disable machine check abort handling |
| 1052 | |
Linus Torvalds | 1da177e | 2005-04-16 15:20:36 -0700 | [diff] [blame] | 1053 | noresidual [PPC] Don't use residual data on PReP machines. |
| 1054 | |
Randy Dunlap | a991304 | 2005-10-23 12:57:11 -0700 | [diff] [blame] | 1055 | noresume [SWSUSP] Disables resume and restores original swap |
| 1056 | space. |
| 1057 | |
Linus Torvalds | 1da177e | 2005-04-16 15:20:36 -0700 | [diff] [blame] | 1058 | no-scroll [VGA] Disables scrollback. |
| 1059 | This is required for the Braillex ib80-piezo Braille |
| 1060 | reader made by F.H. Papenmeier (Germany). |
| 1061 | |
| 1062 | nosbagart [IA-64] |
| 1063 | |
Chuck Ebbert | 4f88651 | 2006-03-23 02:59:34 -0800 | [diff] [blame] | 1064 | nosep [BUGS=IA-32] Disables x86 SYSENTER/SYSEXIT support. |
| 1065 | |
Linus Torvalds | 1da177e | 2005-04-16 15:20:36 -0700 | [diff] [blame] | 1066 | nosmp [SMP] Tells an SMP kernel to act as a UP kernel. |
| 1067 | |
| 1068 | nosync [HW,M68K] Disables sync negotiation for all devices. |
| 1069 | |
| 1070 | notsc [BUGS=IA-32] Disable Time Stamp Counter |
| 1071 | |
| 1072 | nousb [USB] Disable the USB subsystem |
| 1073 | |
| 1074 | nowb [ARM] |
Randy Dunlap | a991304 | 2005-10-23 12:57:11 -0700 | [diff] [blame] | 1075 | |
Dave Jones | a61c2d7 | 2006-01-07 23:18:19 +0000 | [diff] [blame] | 1076 | nr_uarts= [SERIAL] maximum number of UARTs to be registered. |
| 1077 | |
Linus Torvalds | 1da177e | 2005-04-16 15:20:36 -0700 | [diff] [blame] | 1078 | opl3= [HW,OSS] |
| 1079 | Format: <io> |
| 1080 | |
| 1081 | opl3sa= [HW,OSS] |
| 1082 | Format: <io>,<irq>,<dma>,<dma2>,<mpu_io>,<mpu_irq> |
| 1083 | |
Randy Dunlap | a991304 | 2005-10-23 12:57:11 -0700 | [diff] [blame] | 1084 | opl3sa2= [HW,OSS] Format: |
| 1085 | <io>,<irq>,<dma>,<dma2>,<mss_io>,<mpu_io>,<ymode>,<loopback>[,<isapnp>,<multiple] |
| 1086 | |
Linus Torvalds | 1da177e | 2005-04-16 15:20:36 -0700 | [diff] [blame] | 1087 | oprofile.timer= [HW] |
| 1088 | Use timer interrupt instead of performance counters |
| 1089 | |
| 1090 | optcd= [HW,CD] |
| 1091 | Format: <io> |
| 1092 | |
| 1093 | osst= [HW,SCSI] SCSI Tape Driver |
| 1094 | Format: <buffer_size>,<write_threshold> |
| 1095 | See also Documentation/scsi/st.txt. |
| 1096 | |
| 1097 | panic= [KNL] Kernel behaviour on panic |
| 1098 | Format: <timeout> |
| 1099 | |
| 1100 | parkbd.port= [HW] Parallel port number the keyboard adapter is |
| 1101 | connected to, default is 0. |
| 1102 | Format: <parport#> |
| 1103 | parkbd.mode= [HW] Parallel port keyboard adapter mode of operation, |
| 1104 | 0 for XT, 1 for AT (default is AT). |
Randy Dunlap | a991304 | 2005-10-23 12:57:11 -0700 | [diff] [blame] | 1105 | Format: <mode> |
Linus Torvalds | 1da177e | 2005-04-16 15:20:36 -0700 | [diff] [blame] | 1106 | |
Randy Dunlap | a991304 | 2005-10-23 12:57:11 -0700 | [diff] [blame] | 1107 | parport= [HW,PPT] Specify parallel ports. 0 disables. |
| 1108 | Format: { 0 | auto | 0xBBB[,IRQ[,DMA]] } |
| 1109 | Use 'auto' to force the driver to use any |
| 1110 | IRQ/DMA settings detected (the default is to |
| 1111 | ignore detected IRQ/DMA settings because of |
| 1112 | possible conflicts). You can specify the base |
| 1113 | address, IRQ, and DMA settings; IRQ and DMA |
| 1114 | should be numbers, or 'auto' (for using detected |
| 1115 | settings on that particular port), or 'nofifo' |
| 1116 | (to avoid using a FIFO even if it is detected). |
| 1117 | Parallel ports are assigned in the order they |
| 1118 | are specified on the command line, starting |
| 1119 | with parport0. |
Linus Torvalds | 1da177e | 2005-04-16 15:20:36 -0700 | [diff] [blame] | 1120 | |
Randy Dunlap | a991304 | 2005-10-23 12:57:11 -0700 | [diff] [blame] | 1121 | parport_init_mode= [HW,PPT] |
| 1122 | Configure VIA parallel port to operate in |
| 1123 | a specific mode. This is necessary on Pegasos |
| 1124 | computer where firmware has no options for setting |
| 1125 | up parallel port mode and sets it to spp. |
| 1126 | Currently this function knows 686a and 8231 chips. |
Linus Torvalds | 1da177e | 2005-04-16 15:20:36 -0700 | [diff] [blame] | 1127 | Format: [spp|ps2|epp|ecp|ecpepp] |
| 1128 | |
Randy Dunlap | a991304 | 2005-10-23 12:57:11 -0700 | [diff] [blame] | 1129 | pas2= [HW,OSS] Format: |
| 1130 | <io>,<irq>,<dma>,<dma16>,<sb_io>,<sb_irq>,<sb_dma>,<sb_dma16> |
| 1131 | |
Linus Torvalds | 1da177e | 2005-04-16 15:20:36 -0700 | [diff] [blame] | 1132 | pas16= [HW,SCSI] |
| 1133 | See header of drivers/scsi/pas16.c. |
| 1134 | |
Andrew Morton | dd28779 | 2006-03-23 03:00:57 -0800 | [diff] [blame] | 1135 | pause_on_oops= |
| 1136 | Halt all CPUs after the first oops has been printed for |
| 1137 | the specified number of seconds. This is to be used if |
| 1138 | your oopses keep scrolling off the screen. |
| 1139 | |
Linus Torvalds | 1da177e | 2005-04-16 15:20:36 -0700 | [diff] [blame] | 1140 | pcbit= [HW,ISDN] |
| 1141 | |
| 1142 | pcd. [PARIDE] |
| 1143 | See header of drivers/block/paride/pcd.c. |
| 1144 | See also Documentation/paride.txt. |
| 1145 | |
Randy Dunlap | a991304 | 2005-10-23 12:57:11 -0700 | [diff] [blame] | 1146 | pci=option[,option...] [PCI] various PCI subsystem options: |
| 1147 | off [IA-32] don't probe for the PCI bus |
| 1148 | bios [IA-32] force use of PCI BIOS, don't access |
| 1149 | the hardware directly. Use this if your machine |
| 1150 | has a non-standard PCI host bridge. |
| 1151 | nobios [IA-32] disallow use of PCI BIOS, only direct |
| 1152 | hardware access methods are allowed. Use this |
| 1153 | if you experience crashes upon bootup and you |
| 1154 | suspect they are caused by the BIOS. |
| 1155 | conf1 [IA-32] Force use of PCI Configuration |
| 1156 | Mechanism 1. |
| 1157 | conf2 [IA-32] Force use of PCI Configuration |
| 1158 | Mechanism 2. |
Bjorn Helgaas | 61be6d6 | 2006-02-15 15:17:43 -0800 | [diff] [blame] | 1159 | nommconf [IA-32,X86_64] Disable use of MMCONFIG for PCI |
| 1160 | Configuration |
Matthew Wilcox | 309e57d | 2006-03-05 22:33:34 -0700 | [diff] [blame] | 1161 | nomsi [MSI] If the PCI_MSI kernel config parameter is |
| 1162 | enabled, this kernel boot option can be used to |
| 1163 | disable the use of MSI interrupts system-wide. |
Randy Dunlap | a991304 | 2005-10-23 12:57:11 -0700 | [diff] [blame] | 1164 | nosort [IA-32] Don't sort PCI devices according to |
| 1165 | order given by the PCI BIOS. This sorting is |
| 1166 | done to get a device order compatible with |
| 1167 | older kernels. |
| 1168 | biosirq [IA-32] Use PCI BIOS calls to get the interrupt |
| 1169 | routing table. These calls are known to be buggy |
| 1170 | on several machines and they hang the machine |
| 1171 | when used, but on other computers it's the only |
| 1172 | way to get the interrupt routing table. Try |
| 1173 | this option if the kernel is unable to allocate |
| 1174 | IRQs or discover secondary PCI buses on your |
| 1175 | motherboard. |
| 1176 | rom [IA-32] Assign address space to expansion ROMs. |
| 1177 | Use with caution as certain devices share |
| 1178 | address decoders between ROMs and other |
| 1179 | resources. |
| 1180 | irqmask=0xMMMM [IA-32] Set a bit mask of IRQs allowed to be |
| 1181 | assigned automatically to PCI devices. You can |
| 1182 | make the kernel exclude IRQs of your ISA cards |
| 1183 | this way. |
jayalk@intworks.biz | 120bb42 | 2005-03-21 20:20:42 -0800 | [diff] [blame] | 1184 | pirqaddr=0xAAAAA [IA-32] Specify the physical address |
Randy Dunlap | a991304 | 2005-10-23 12:57:11 -0700 | [diff] [blame] | 1185 | of the PIRQ table (normally generated |
| 1186 | by the BIOS) if it is outside the |
| 1187 | F0000h-100000h range. |
| 1188 | lastbus=N [IA-32] Scan all buses thru bus #N. Can be |
| 1189 | useful if the kernel is unable to find your |
| 1190 | secondary buses and you want to tell it |
| 1191 | explicitly which ones they are. |
| 1192 | assign-busses [IA-32] Always assign all PCI bus |
| 1193 | numbers ourselves, overriding |
| 1194 | whatever the firmware may have done. |
| 1195 | usepirqmask [IA-32] Honor the possible IRQ mask stored |
| 1196 | in the BIOS $PIR table. This is needed on |
| 1197 | some systems with broken BIOSes, notably |
| 1198 | some HP Pavilion N5400 and Omnibook XE3 |
| 1199 | notebooks. This will have no effect if ACPI |
| 1200 | IRQ routing is enabled. |
| 1201 | noacpi [IA-32] Do not use ACPI for IRQ routing |
| 1202 | or for PCI scanning. |
| 1203 | routeirq Do IRQ routing for all PCI devices. |
| 1204 | This is normally done in pci_enable_device(), |
| 1205 | so this option is a temporary workaround |
| 1206 | for broken drivers that don't call it. |
| 1207 | firmware [ARM] Do not re-enumerate the bus but instead |
| 1208 | just use the configuration from the |
| 1209 | bootloader. This is currently used on |
| 1210 | IXP2000 systems where the bus has to be |
| 1211 | configured a certain way for adjunct CPUs. |
Linus Torvalds | 1da177e | 2005-04-16 15:20:36 -0700 | [diff] [blame] | 1212 | |
| 1213 | pcmv= [HW,PCMCIA] BadgePAD 4 |
| 1214 | |
| 1215 | pd. [PARIDE] |
| 1216 | See Documentation/paride.txt. |
| 1217 | |
| 1218 | pdcchassis= [PARISC,HW] Disable/Enable PDC Chassis Status codes at |
| 1219 | boot time. |
| 1220 | Format: { 0 | 1 } |
| 1221 | See arch/parisc/kernel/pdc_chassis.c |
| 1222 | |
| 1223 | pf. [PARIDE] |
| 1224 | See Documentation/paride.txt. |
| 1225 | |
| 1226 | pg. [PARIDE] |
| 1227 | See Documentation/paride.txt. |
| 1228 | |
| 1229 | pirq= [SMP,APIC] Manual mp-table setup |
| 1230 | See Documentation/i386/IO-APIC.txt. |
| 1231 | |
| 1232 | plip= [PPT,NET] Parallel port network link |
| 1233 | Format: { parport<nr> | timid | 0 } |
| 1234 | See also Documentation/parport.txt. |
| 1235 | |
| 1236 | pnpacpi= [ACPI] |
| 1237 | { off } |
| 1238 | |
| 1239 | pnpbios= [ISAPNP] |
| 1240 | { on | off | curr | res | no-curr | no-res } |
| 1241 | |
| 1242 | pnp_reserve_irq= |
| 1243 | [ISAPNP] Exclude IRQs for the autoconfiguration |
| 1244 | |
| 1245 | pnp_reserve_dma= |
| 1246 | [ISAPNP] Exclude DMAs for the autoconfiguration |
| 1247 | |
| 1248 | pnp_reserve_io= [ISAPNP] Exclude I/O ports for the autoconfiguration |
Randy Dunlap | a991304 | 2005-10-23 12:57:11 -0700 | [diff] [blame] | 1249 | Ranges are in pairs (I/O port base and size). |
Linus Torvalds | 1da177e | 2005-04-16 15:20:36 -0700 | [diff] [blame] | 1250 | |
| 1251 | pnp_reserve_mem= |
Randy Dunlap | a991304 | 2005-10-23 12:57:11 -0700 | [diff] [blame] | 1252 | [ISAPNP] Exclude memory regions for the |
| 1253 | autoconfiguration. |
Linus Torvalds | 1da177e | 2005-04-16 15:20:36 -0700 | [diff] [blame] | 1254 | Ranges are in pairs (memory base and size). |
| 1255 | |
| 1256 | profile= [KNL] Enable kernel profiling via /proc/profile |
Randy Dunlap | a991304 | 2005-10-23 12:57:11 -0700 | [diff] [blame] | 1257 | Format: [schedule,]<number> |
| 1258 | Param: "schedule" - profile schedule points. |
| 1259 | Param: <number> - step/bucket size as a power of 2 for |
| 1260 | statistical time based profiling. |
Linus Torvalds | 1da177e | 2005-04-16 15:20:36 -0700 | [diff] [blame] | 1261 | |
Randy Dunlap | a991304 | 2005-10-23 12:57:11 -0700 | [diff] [blame] | 1262 | processor.max_cstate= [HW,ACPI] |
Linus Torvalds | 1da177e | 2005-04-16 15:20:36 -0700 | [diff] [blame] | 1263 | Limit processor to maximum C-state |
| 1264 | max_cstate=9 overrides any DMI blacklist limit. |
| 1265 | |
Len Brown | 41c0d86 | 2005-12-28 12:43:51 -0500 | [diff] [blame] | 1266 | processor.nocst [HW,ACPI] |
| 1267 | Ignore the _CST method to determine C-states, |
| 1268 | instead using the legacy FADT method |
| 1269 | |
Linus Torvalds | 1da177e | 2005-04-16 15:20:36 -0700 | [diff] [blame] | 1270 | prompt_ramdisk= [RAM] List of RAM disks to prompt for floppy disk |
| 1271 | before loading. |
| 1272 | See Documentation/ramdisk.txt. |
| 1273 | |
Randy Dunlap | a991304 | 2005-10-23 12:57:11 -0700 | [diff] [blame] | 1274 | psmouse.proto= [HW,MOUSE] Highest PS2 mouse protocol extension to |
| 1275 | probe for; one of (bare|imps|exps|lifebook|any). |
Linus Torvalds | 1da177e | 2005-04-16 15:20:36 -0700 | [diff] [blame] | 1276 | psmouse.rate= [HW,MOUSE] Set desired mouse report rate, in reports |
| 1277 | per second. |
Randy Dunlap | a991304 | 2005-10-23 12:57:11 -0700 | [diff] [blame] | 1278 | psmouse.resetafter= [HW,MOUSE] |
| 1279 | Try to reset the device after so many bad packets |
Linus Torvalds | 1da177e | 2005-04-16 15:20:36 -0700 | [diff] [blame] | 1280 | (0 = never). |
| 1281 | psmouse.resolution= |
| 1282 | [HW,MOUSE] Set desired mouse resolution, in dpi. |
| 1283 | psmouse.smartscroll= |
Randy Dunlap | a991304 | 2005-10-23 12:57:11 -0700 | [diff] [blame] | 1284 | [HW,MOUSE] Controls Logitech smartscroll autorepeat. |
Linus Torvalds | 1da177e | 2005-04-16 15:20:36 -0700 | [diff] [blame] | 1285 | 0 = disabled, 1 = enabled (default). |
| 1286 | |
| 1287 | pss= [HW,OSS] Personal Sound System (ECHO ESC614) |
Randy Dunlap | a991304 | 2005-10-23 12:57:11 -0700 | [diff] [blame] | 1288 | Format: |
| 1289 | <io>,<mss_io>,<mss_irq>,<mss_dma>,<mpu_io>,<mpu_irq> |
Linus Torvalds | 1da177e | 2005-04-16 15:20:36 -0700 | [diff] [blame] | 1290 | |
| 1291 | pt. [PARIDE] |
| 1292 | See Documentation/paride.txt. |
| 1293 | |
| 1294 | quiet= [KNL] Disable log messages |
Randy Dunlap | a991304 | 2005-10-23 12:57:11 -0700 | [diff] [blame] | 1295 | |
Linus Torvalds | 1da177e | 2005-04-16 15:20:36 -0700 | [diff] [blame] | 1296 | r128= [HW,DRM] |
| 1297 | |
| 1298 | raid= [HW,RAID] |
| 1299 | See Documentation/md.txt. |
| 1300 | |
| 1301 | ramdisk= [RAM] Sizes of RAM disks in kilobytes [deprecated] |
| 1302 | See Documentation/ramdisk.txt. |
| 1303 | |
Randy Dunlap | a991304 | 2005-10-23 12:57:11 -0700 | [diff] [blame] | 1304 | ramdisk_blocksize= [RAM] |
Linus Torvalds | 1da177e | 2005-04-16 15:20:36 -0700 | [diff] [blame] | 1305 | See Documentation/ramdisk.txt. |
Randy Dunlap | a991304 | 2005-10-23 12:57:11 -0700 | [diff] [blame] | 1306 | |
Linus Torvalds | 1da177e | 2005-04-16 15:20:36 -0700 | [diff] [blame] | 1307 | ramdisk_size= [RAM] Sizes of RAM disks in kilobytes |
| 1308 | New name for the ramdisk parameter. |
| 1309 | See Documentation/ramdisk.txt. |
| 1310 | |
Dipankar Sarma | 21a1ea9 | 2006-03-07 21:55:33 -0800 | [diff] [blame] | 1311 | rcu.blimit= [KNL,BOOT] Set maximum number of finished |
| 1312 | RCU callbacks to process in one batch. |
| 1313 | |
| 1314 | rcu.qhimark= [KNL,BOOT] Set threshold of queued |
| 1315 | RCU callbacks over which batch limiting is disabled. |
| 1316 | |
| 1317 | rcu.qlowmark= [KNL,BOOT] Set threshold of queued |
| 1318 | RCU callbacks below which batch limiting is re-enabled. |
| 1319 | |
| 1320 | rcu.rsinterval= [KNL,BOOT,SMP] Set the number of additional |
| 1321 | RCU callbacks to queued before forcing reschedule |
| 1322 | on all cpus. |
| 1323 | |
Olof Johansson | ffdfc40 | 2005-09-06 15:17:19 -0700 | [diff] [blame] | 1324 | rdinit= [KNL] |
| 1325 | Format: <full_path> |
| 1326 | Run specified binary instead of /init from the ramdisk, |
| 1327 | used for early userspace startup. See initrd. |
| 1328 | |
Linus Torvalds | 1da177e | 2005-04-16 15:20:36 -0700 | [diff] [blame] | 1329 | reboot= [BUGS=IA-32,BUGS=ARM,BUGS=IA-64] Rebooting mode |
| 1330 | Format: <reboot_mode>[,<reboot_mode2>[,...]] |
| 1331 | See arch/*/kernel/reboot.c. |
| 1332 | |
| 1333 | reserve= [KNL,BUGS] Force the kernel to ignore some iomem area |
| 1334 | |
Randy Dunlap | a991304 | 2005-10-23 12:57:11 -0700 | [diff] [blame] | 1335 | resume= [SWSUSP] |
| 1336 | Specify the partition device for software suspend |
Linus Torvalds | 1da177e | 2005-04-16 15:20:36 -0700 | [diff] [blame] | 1337 | |
| 1338 | rhash_entries= [KNL,NET] |
| 1339 | Set number of hash buckets for route cache |
| 1340 | |
| 1341 | riscom8= [HW,SERIAL] |
| 1342 | Format: <io_board1>[,<io_board2>[,...<io_boardN>]] |
| 1343 | |
| 1344 | ro [KNL] Mount root device read-only on boot |
| 1345 | |
| 1346 | root= [KNL] Root filesystem |
| 1347 | |
| 1348 | rootdelay= [KNL] Delay (in seconds) to pause before attempting to |
| 1349 | mount the root filesystem |
| 1350 | |
| 1351 | rootflags= [KNL] Set root filesystem mount option string |
| 1352 | |
| 1353 | rootfstype= [KNL] Set root filesystem type |
| 1354 | |
| 1355 | rw [KNL] Mount root device read-write on boot |
| 1356 | |
| 1357 | S [KNL] Run init in single mode |
| 1358 | |
| 1359 | sa1100ir [NET] |
| 1360 | See drivers/net/irda/sa1100_ir.c. |
| 1361 | |
| 1362 | sb= [HW,OSS] |
| 1363 | Format: <io>,<irq>,<dma>,<dma2> |
| 1364 | |
| 1365 | sbni= [NET] Granch SBNI12 leased line adapter |
Randy Dunlap | a991304 | 2005-10-23 12:57:11 -0700 | [diff] [blame] | 1366 | |
Linus Torvalds | 1da177e | 2005-04-16 15:20:36 -0700 | [diff] [blame] | 1367 | sbpcd= [HW,CD] Soundblaster CD adapter |
| 1368 | Format: <io>,<type> |
| 1369 | See a comment before function sbpcd_setup() in |
| 1370 | drivers/cdrom/sbpcd.c. |
| 1371 | |
| 1372 | sc1200wdt= [HW,WDT] SC1200 WDT (watchdog) driver |
| 1373 | Format: <io>[,<timeout>[,<isapnp>]] |
| 1374 | |
| 1375 | scsi_debug_*= [SCSI] |
| 1376 | See drivers/scsi/scsi_debug.c. |
| 1377 | |
| 1378 | scsi_default_dev_flags= |
| 1379 | [SCSI] SCSI default device flags |
| 1380 | Format: <integer> |
| 1381 | |
| 1382 | scsi_dev_flags= [SCSI] Black/white list entry for vendor and model |
| 1383 | Format: <vendor>:<model>:<flags> |
| 1384 | (flags are integer value) |
| 1385 | |
| 1386 | scsi_logging= [SCSI] |
| 1387 | |
| 1388 | selinux [SELINUX] Disable or enable SELinux at boot time. |
| 1389 | Format: { "0" | "1" } |
| 1390 | See security/selinux/Kconfig help text. |
| 1391 | 0 -- disable. |
| 1392 | 1 -- enable. |
| 1393 | Default value is set via kernel config option. |
| 1394 | If enabled at boot time, /selinux/disable can be used |
| 1395 | later to disable prior to initial policy load. |
| 1396 | |
| 1397 | serialnumber [BUGS=IA-32] |
| 1398 | |
Randy Dunlap | a991304 | 2005-10-23 12:57:11 -0700 | [diff] [blame] | 1399 | sg_def_reserved_size= [SCSI] |
| 1400 | |
Linus Torvalds | 1da177e | 2005-04-16 15:20:36 -0700 | [diff] [blame] | 1401 | sgalaxy= [HW,OSS] |
| 1402 | Format: <io>,<irq>,<dma>,<dma2>,<sgbase> |
| 1403 | |
| 1404 | shapers= [NET] |
| 1405 | Maximal number of shapers. |
Randy Dunlap | a991304 | 2005-10-23 12:57:11 -0700 | [diff] [blame] | 1406 | |
Linus Torvalds | 1da177e | 2005-04-16 15:20:36 -0700 | [diff] [blame] | 1407 | sim710= [SCSI,HW] |
| 1408 | See header of drivers/scsi/sim710.c. |
| 1409 | |
| 1410 | simeth= [IA-64] |
| 1411 | simscsi= |
Randy Dunlap | a991304 | 2005-10-23 12:57:11 -0700 | [diff] [blame] | 1412 | |
Linus Torvalds | 1da177e | 2005-04-16 15:20:36 -0700 | [diff] [blame] | 1413 | sjcd= [HW,CD] |
| 1414 | Format: <io>,<irq>,<dma> |
| 1415 | See header of drivers/cdrom/sjcd.c. |
| 1416 | |
| 1417 | slram= [HW,MTD] |
| 1418 | |
| 1419 | smart2= [HW] |
| 1420 | Format: <io1>[,<io2>[,...,<io8>]] |
| 1421 | |
| 1422 | snd-ad1816a= [HW,ALSA] |
| 1423 | |
| 1424 | snd-ad1848= [HW,ALSA] |
| 1425 | |
| 1426 | snd-ali5451= [HW,ALSA] |
| 1427 | |
| 1428 | snd-als100= [HW,ALSA] |
| 1429 | |
| 1430 | snd-als4000= [HW,ALSA] |
| 1431 | |
| 1432 | snd-azt2320= [HW,ALSA] |
| 1433 | |
| 1434 | snd-cmi8330= [HW,ALSA] |
| 1435 | |
| 1436 | snd-cmipci= [HW,ALSA] |
| 1437 | |
| 1438 | snd-cs4231= [HW,ALSA] |
| 1439 | |
| 1440 | snd-cs4232= [HW,ALSA] |
| 1441 | |
| 1442 | snd-cs4236= [HW,ALSA] |
| 1443 | |
| 1444 | snd-cs4281= [HW,ALSA] |
| 1445 | |
| 1446 | snd-cs46xx= [HW,ALSA] |
| 1447 | |
| 1448 | snd-dt019x= [HW,ALSA] |
| 1449 | |
| 1450 | snd-dummy= [HW,ALSA] |
| 1451 | |
| 1452 | snd-emu10k1= [HW,ALSA] |
| 1453 | |
| 1454 | snd-ens1370= [HW,ALSA] |
| 1455 | |
| 1456 | snd-ens1371= [HW,ALSA] |
| 1457 | |
| 1458 | snd-es968= [HW,ALSA] |
| 1459 | |
| 1460 | snd-es1688= [HW,ALSA] |
| 1461 | |
| 1462 | snd-es18xx= [HW,ALSA] |
| 1463 | |
| 1464 | snd-es1938= [HW,ALSA] |
| 1465 | |
| 1466 | snd-es1968= [HW,ALSA] |
| 1467 | |
| 1468 | snd-fm801= [HW,ALSA] |
| 1469 | |
| 1470 | snd-gusclassic= [HW,ALSA] |
| 1471 | |
| 1472 | snd-gusextreme= [HW,ALSA] |
| 1473 | |
| 1474 | snd-gusmax= [HW,ALSA] |
| 1475 | |
| 1476 | snd-hdsp= [HW,ALSA] |
| 1477 | |
| 1478 | snd-ice1712= [HW,ALSA] |
| 1479 | |
| 1480 | snd-intel8x0= [HW,ALSA] |
| 1481 | |
| 1482 | snd-interwave= [HW,ALSA] |
| 1483 | |
| 1484 | snd-interwave-stb= |
| 1485 | [HW,ALSA] |
| 1486 | |
| 1487 | snd-korg1212= [HW,ALSA] |
| 1488 | |
| 1489 | snd-maestro3= [HW,ALSA] |
| 1490 | |
| 1491 | snd-mpu401= [HW,ALSA] |
| 1492 | |
| 1493 | snd-mtpav= [HW,ALSA] |
| 1494 | |
| 1495 | snd-nm256= [HW,ALSA] |
| 1496 | |
| 1497 | snd-opl3sa2= [HW,ALSA] |
| 1498 | |
| 1499 | snd-opti92x-ad1848= |
| 1500 | [HW,ALSA] |
| 1501 | |
| 1502 | snd-opti92x-cs4231= |
| 1503 | [HW,ALSA] |
| 1504 | |
| 1505 | snd-opti93x= [HW,ALSA] |
| 1506 | |
| 1507 | snd-pmac= [HW,ALSA] |
| 1508 | |
| 1509 | snd-rme32= [HW,ALSA] |
| 1510 | |
| 1511 | snd-rme96= [HW,ALSA] |
| 1512 | |
| 1513 | snd-rme9652= [HW,ALSA] |
| 1514 | |
| 1515 | snd-sb8= [HW,ALSA] |
| 1516 | |
| 1517 | snd-sb16= [HW,ALSA] |
| 1518 | |
| 1519 | snd-sbawe= [HW,ALSA] |
| 1520 | |
| 1521 | snd-serial= [HW,ALSA] |
| 1522 | |
| 1523 | snd-sgalaxy= [HW,ALSA] |
| 1524 | |
| 1525 | snd-sonicvibes= [HW,ALSA] |
| 1526 | |
| 1527 | snd-sun-amd7930= |
| 1528 | [HW,ALSA] |
| 1529 | |
| 1530 | snd-sun-cs4231= [HW,ALSA] |
| 1531 | |
| 1532 | snd-trident= [HW,ALSA] |
| 1533 | |
| 1534 | snd-usb-audio= [HW,ALSA,USB] |
| 1535 | |
| 1536 | snd-via82xx= [HW,ALSA] |
| 1537 | |
| 1538 | snd-virmidi= [HW,ALSA] |
| 1539 | |
| 1540 | snd-wavefront= [HW,ALSA] |
| 1541 | |
| 1542 | snd-ymfpci= [HW,ALSA] |
Randy Dunlap | a991304 | 2005-10-23 12:57:11 -0700 | [diff] [blame] | 1543 | |
Linus Torvalds | 1da177e | 2005-04-16 15:20:36 -0700 | [diff] [blame] | 1544 | sonicvibes= [HW,OSS] |
| 1545 | Format: <reverb> |
Randy Dunlap | a991304 | 2005-10-23 12:57:11 -0700 | [diff] [blame] | 1546 | |
Linus Torvalds | 1da177e | 2005-04-16 15:20:36 -0700 | [diff] [blame] | 1547 | sonycd535= [HW,CD] |
| 1548 | Format: <io>[,<irq>] |
| 1549 | |
| 1550 | sonypi.*= [HW] Sony Programmable I/O Control Device driver |
| 1551 | See Documentation/sonypi.txt |
| 1552 | |
| 1553 | specialix= [HW,SERIAL] Specialix multi-serial port adapter |
| 1554 | See Documentation/specialix.txt. |
| 1555 | |
| 1556 | spia_io_base= [HW,MTD] |
| 1557 | spia_fio_base= |
| 1558 | spia_pedr= |
| 1559 | spia_peddr= |
| 1560 | |
| 1561 | sscape= [HW,OSS] |
| 1562 | Format: <io>,<irq>,<dma>,<mpu_io>,<mpu_irq> |
Randy Dunlap | a991304 | 2005-10-23 12:57:11 -0700 | [diff] [blame] | 1563 | |
Linus Torvalds | 1da177e | 2005-04-16 15:20:36 -0700 | [diff] [blame] | 1564 | st= [HW,SCSI] SCSI tape parameters (buffers, etc.) |
| 1565 | See Documentation/scsi/st.txt. |
| 1566 | |
| 1567 | st0x= [HW,SCSI] |
| 1568 | See header of drivers/scsi/seagate.c. |
| 1569 | |
| 1570 | sti= [PARISC,HW] |
| 1571 | Format: <num> |
| 1572 | Set the STI (builtin display/keyboard on the HP-PARISC |
| 1573 | machines) console (graphic card) which should be used |
| 1574 | as the initial boot-console. |
| 1575 | See also comment in drivers/video/console/sticore.c. |
| 1576 | |
| 1577 | sti_font= [HW] |
| 1578 | See comment in drivers/video/console/sticore.c. |
| 1579 | |
| 1580 | stifb= [HW] |
| 1581 | Format: bpp:<bpp1>[:<bpp2>[:<bpp3>...]] |
| 1582 | |
Linus Torvalds | 1da177e | 2005-04-16 15:20:36 -0700 | [diff] [blame] | 1583 | swiotlb= [IA-64] Number of I/O TLB slabs |
Randy Dunlap | a991304 | 2005-10-23 12:57:11 -0700 | [diff] [blame] | 1584 | |
Linus Torvalds | 1da177e | 2005-04-16 15:20:36 -0700 | [diff] [blame] | 1585 | switches= [HW,M68k] |
| 1586 | |
| 1587 | sym53c416= [HW,SCSI] |
| 1588 | See header of drivers/scsi/sym53c416.c. |
| 1589 | |
| 1590 | t128= [HW,SCSI] |
| 1591 | See header of drivers/scsi/t128.c. |
| 1592 | |
| 1593 | tdfx= [HW,DRM] |
| 1594 | |
| 1595 | thash_entries= [KNL,NET] |
| 1596 | Set number of hash buckets for TCP connection |
| 1597 | |
| 1598 | time Show timing data prefixed to each printk message line |
| 1599 | |
| 1600 | tipar.timeout= [HW,PPT] |
| 1601 | Set communications timeout in tenths of a second |
| 1602 | (default 15). |
| 1603 | |
| 1604 | tipar.delay= [HW,PPT] |
| 1605 | Set inter-bit delay in microseconds (default 10). |
| 1606 | |
| 1607 | tmc8xx= [HW,SCSI] |
| 1608 | See header of drivers/scsi/seagate.c. |
| 1609 | |
| 1610 | tmscsim= [HW,SCSI] |
| 1611 | See comment before function dc390_setup() in |
| 1612 | drivers/scsi/tmscsim.c. |
| 1613 | |
| 1614 | tp720= [HW,PS2] |
| 1615 | |
| 1616 | trix= [HW,OSS] MediaTrix AudioTrix Pro |
Randy Dunlap | a991304 | 2005-10-23 12:57:11 -0700 | [diff] [blame] | 1617 | Format: |
| 1618 | <io>,<irq>,<dma>,<dma2>,<sb_io>,<sb_irq>,<sb_dma>,<mpu_io>,<mpu_irq> |
| 1619 | |
Linus Torvalds | 1da177e | 2005-04-16 15:20:36 -0700 | [diff] [blame] | 1620 | tsdev.xres= [TS] Horizontal screen resolution. |
| 1621 | tsdev.yres= [TS] Vertical screen resolution. |
| 1622 | |
Randy Dunlap | a991304 | 2005-10-23 12:57:11 -0700 | [diff] [blame] | 1623 | turbografx.map[2|3]= [HW,JOY] |
| 1624 | TurboGraFX parallel port interface |
| 1625 | Format: |
| 1626 | <port#>,<js1>,<js2>,<js3>,<js4>,<js5>,<js6>,<js7> |
Linus Torvalds | 1da177e | 2005-04-16 15:20:36 -0700 | [diff] [blame] | 1627 | See also Documentation/input/joystick-parport.txt |
| 1628 | |
| 1629 | u14-34f= [HW,SCSI] UltraStor 14F/34F SCSI host adapter |
| 1630 | See header of drivers/scsi/u14-34f.c. |
| 1631 | |
| 1632 | uart401= [HW,OSS] |
| 1633 | Format: <io>,<irq> |
| 1634 | |
| 1635 | uart6850= [HW,OSS] |
| 1636 | Format: <io>,<irq> |
| 1637 | |
Linus Torvalds | 1da177e | 2005-04-16 15:20:36 -0700 | [diff] [blame] | 1638 | usbhid.mousepoll= |
| 1639 | [USBHID] The interval which mice are to be polled at. |
Randy Dunlap | a991304 | 2005-10-23 12:57:11 -0700 | [diff] [blame] | 1640 | |
Linus Torvalds | 1da177e | 2005-04-16 15:20:36 -0700 | [diff] [blame] | 1641 | video= [FB] Frame buffer configuration |
| 1642 | See Documentation/fb/modedb.txt. |
| 1643 | |
| 1644 | vga= [BOOT,IA-32] Select a particular video mode |
Randy Dunlap | a991304 | 2005-10-23 12:57:11 -0700 | [diff] [blame] | 1645 | See Documentation/i386/boot.txt and |
| 1646 | Documentation/svga.txt. |
Linus Torvalds | 1da177e | 2005-04-16 15:20:36 -0700 | [diff] [blame] | 1647 | Use vga=ask for menu. |
| 1648 | This is actually a boot loader parameter; the value is |
| 1649 | passed to the kernel using a special protocol. |
| 1650 | |
Randy Dunlap | a991304 | 2005-10-23 12:57:11 -0700 | [diff] [blame] | 1651 | vmalloc=nn[KMG] [KNL,BOOT] Forces the vmalloc area to have an exact |
Linus Torvalds | 1da177e | 2005-04-16 15:20:36 -0700 | [diff] [blame] | 1652 | size of <nn>. This can be used to increase the |
| 1653 | minimum size (128MB on x86). It can also be used to |
| 1654 | decrease the size and leave more room for directly |
| 1655 | mapped kernel RAM. |
| 1656 | |
| 1657 | vmhalt= [KNL,S390] |
| 1658 | |
Randy Dunlap | a991304 | 2005-10-23 12:57:11 -0700 | [diff] [blame] | 1659 | vmpoff= [KNL,S390] |
| 1660 | |
Linus Torvalds | 1da177e | 2005-04-16 15:20:36 -0700 | [diff] [blame] | 1661 | waveartist= [HW,OSS] |
| 1662 | Format: <io>,<irq>,<dma>,<dma2> |
Randy Dunlap | a991304 | 2005-10-23 12:57:11 -0700 | [diff] [blame] | 1663 | |
Linus Torvalds | 1da177e | 2005-04-16 15:20:36 -0700 | [diff] [blame] | 1664 | wd33c93= [HW,SCSI] |
| 1665 | See header of drivers/scsi/wd33c93.c. |
| 1666 | |
| 1667 | wd7000= [HW,SCSI] |
| 1668 | See header of drivers/scsi/wd7000.c. |
| 1669 | |
| 1670 | wdt= [WDT] Watchdog |
| 1671 | See Documentation/watchdog/watchdog.txt. |
| 1672 | |
| 1673 | xd= [HW,XT] Original XT pre-IDE (RLL encoded) disks. |
| 1674 | xd_geo= See header of drivers/block/xd.c. |
| 1675 | |
| 1676 | xirc2ps_cs= [NET,PCMCIA] |
Randy Dunlap | a991304 | 2005-10-23 12:57:11 -0700 | [diff] [blame] | 1677 | Format: |
| 1678 | <irq>,<irq_mask>,<io>,<full_duplex>,<do_sound>,<lockup_hack>[,<irq2>[,<irq3>[,<irq4>]]] |
Linus Torvalds | 1da177e | 2005-04-16 15:20:36 -0700 | [diff] [blame] | 1679 | |
Andi Kleen | a62eaf1 | 2006-02-16 23:41:58 +0100 | [diff] [blame] | 1680 | norandmaps Don't use address space randomization |
| 1681 | Equivalent to echo 0 > /proc/sys/kernel/randomize_va_space |
| 1682 | |
Linus Torvalds | 1da177e | 2005-04-16 15:20:36 -0700 | [diff] [blame] | 1683 | |
Randy Dunlap | a991304 | 2005-10-23 12:57:11 -0700 | [diff] [blame] | 1684 | ______________________________________________________________________ |
Linus Torvalds | 1da177e | 2005-04-16 15:20:36 -0700 | [diff] [blame] | 1685 | Changelog: |
| 1686 | |
Randy Dunlap | a991304 | 2005-10-23 12:57:11 -0700 | [diff] [blame] | 1687 | 2000-06-?? Mr. Unknown |
Linus Torvalds | 1da177e | 2005-04-16 15:20:36 -0700 | [diff] [blame] | 1688 | The last known update (for 2.4.0) - the changelog was not kept before. |
Linus Torvalds | 1da177e | 2005-04-16 15:20:36 -0700 | [diff] [blame] | 1689 | |
Randy Dunlap | a991304 | 2005-10-23 12:57:11 -0700 | [diff] [blame] | 1690 | 2002-11-24 Petr Baudis <pasky@ucw.cz> |
| 1691 | Randy Dunlap <randy.dunlap@verizon.net> |
Linus Torvalds | 1da177e | 2005-04-16 15:20:36 -0700 | [diff] [blame] | 1692 | Update for 2.5.49, description for most of the options introduced, |
| 1693 | references to other documentation (C files, READMEs, ..), added S390, |
| 1694 | PPC, SPARC, MTD, ALSA and OSS category. Minor corrections and |
| 1695 | reformatting. |
Randy Dunlap | a991304 | 2005-10-23 12:57:11 -0700 | [diff] [blame] | 1696 | |
| 1697 | 2005-10-19 Randy Dunlap <rdunlap@xenotime.net> |
| 1698 | Lots of typos, whitespace, some reformatting. |
Linus Torvalds | 1da177e | 2005-04-16 15:20:36 -0700 | [diff] [blame] | 1699 | |
| 1700 | TODO: |
| 1701 | |
| 1702 | Add documentation for ALSA options. |
| 1703 | Add more DRM drivers. |