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| author | Randy Dunlap <randy.dunlap@oracle.com> | 2007-05-23 13:58:16 -0700 |
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| committer | Linus Torvalds <torvalds@woody.linux-foundation.org> | 2007-05-23 20:14:15 -0700 |
| commit | 3d6ac9843175c1d29c075794519cb045b52e46c2 (patch) | |
| tree | 99c7b313497fa39bf103afa344d06d1c01e92f65 /Documentation | |
| parent | 53a2731f9310a66beaf55677229ab067c85ce4fa (diff) | |
document clocksources
Document the available clocksources per platform and move clocksource= into
the correct (alpha) location in the file.
Signed-off-by: Randy Dunlap <randy.dunlap@oracle.com>
Acked-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Diffstat (limited to 'Documentation')
| -rw-r--r-- | Documentation/kernel-parameters.txt | 24 |
1 files changed, 20 insertions, 4 deletions
diff --git a/Documentation/kernel-parameters.txt b/Documentation/kernel-parameters.txt index 09220a1e22d9..aae2282600ca 100644 --- a/Documentation/kernel-parameters.txt +++ b/Documentation/kernel-parameters.txt @@ -396,6 +396,26 @@ and is between 256 and 4096 characters. It is defined in the file clocksource is not available, it defaults to PIT. Format: { pit | tsc | cyclone | pmtmr } + clocksource= [GENERIC_TIME] Override the default clocksource + Format: <string> + Override the default clocksource and use the clocksource + with the name specified. + Some clocksource names to choose from, depending on + the platform: + [all] jiffies (this is the base, fallback clocksource) + [ACPI] acpi_pm + [ARM] imx_timer1,OSTS,netx_timer,mpu_timer2, + pxa_timer,timer3,32k_counter,timer0_1 + [AVR32] avr32 + [IA-32] pit,hpet,tsc,vmi-timer; + scx200_hrt on Geode; cyclone on IBM x440 + [MIPS] MIPS + [PARISC] cr16 + [S390] tod + [SH] SuperH + [SPARC64] tick + [X86-64] hpet,tsc + code_bytes [IA32] How many bytes of object code to print in an oops report. Range: 0 - 8192 @@ -1807,10 +1827,6 @@ and is between 256 and 4096 characters. It is defined in the file time Show timing data prefixed to each printk message line - clocksource= [GENERIC_TIME] Override the default clocksource - Override the default clocksource and use the clocksource - with the name specified. - tipar.timeout= [HW,PPT] Set communications timeout in tenths of a second (default 15). |