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@@ -163,6 +163,11 @@ bytes respectively. Such letter suffixes can also be entirely omitted.
See also Documentation/power/pm.txt, pci=noacpi
+ acpi_rsdp= [ACPI,EFI,KEXEC]
+ Pass the RSDP address to the kernel, mostly used
+ on machines running EFI runtime service to boot the
+ second kernel for kdump.
+
acpi_apic_instance= [ACPI, IOAPIC]
Format: <int>
2: use 2nd APIC table, if available
@@ -1162,10 +1167,6 @@ bytes respectively. Such letter suffixes can also be entirely omitted.
for all guests.
Default is 1 (enabled) if in 64bit or 32bit-PAE mode
- kvm-intel.bypass_guest_pf=
- [KVM,Intel] Disables bypassing of guest page faults
- on Intel chips. Default is 1 (enabled)
-
kvm-intel.ept= [KVM,Intel] Disable extended page tables
(virtualized MMU) support on capable Intel chips.
Default is 1 (enabled)
@@ -1740,6 +1741,10 @@ bytes respectively. Such letter suffixes can also be entirely omitted.
no-kvmapf [X86,KVM] Disable paravirtualized asynchronous page
fault handling.
+ no-steal-acc [X86,KVM] Disable paravirtualized steal time accounting.
+ steal time is computed, but won't influence scheduler
+ behaviour
+
nolapic [X86-32,APIC] Do not enable or use the local APIC.
nolapic_timer [X86-32,APIC] Do not use the local APIC timer.
@@ -1849,7 +1854,9 @@ bytes respectively. Such letter suffixes can also be entirely omitted.
See Documentation/sound/oss/oss-parameters.txt
panic= [KNL] Kernel behaviour on panic: delay <timeout>
- seconds before rebooting
+ timeout > 0: seconds before rebooting
+ timeout = 0: wait forever
+ timeout < 0: reboot immediately
Format: <timeout>
parkbd.port= [HW] Parallel port number the keyboard adapter is
@@ -2154,6 +2161,8 @@ bytes respectively. Such letter suffixes can also be entirely omitted.
[HW,MOUSE] Controls Logitech smartscroll autorepeat.
0 = disabled, 1 = enabled (default).
+ pstore.backend= Specify the name of the pstore backend to use
+
pt. [PARIDE]
See Documentation/blockdev/paride.txt.
@@ -2239,6 +2248,7 @@ bytes respectively. Such letter suffixes can also be entirely omitted.
ro [KNL] Mount root device read-only on boot
root= [KNL] Root filesystem
+ See name_to_dev_t comment in init/do_mounts.c.
rootdelay= [KNL] Delay (in seconds) to pause before attempting to
mount the root filesystem
@@ -2529,6 +2539,11 @@ bytes respectively. Such letter suffixes can also be entirely omitted.
<port#>,<js1>,<js2>,<js3>,<js4>,<js5>,<js6>,<js7>
See also Documentation/input/joystick-parport.txt
+ udbg-immortal [PPC] When debugging early kernel crashes that
+ happen after console_init() and before a proper
+ console driver takes over, this boot options might
+ help "seeing" what's going on.
+
uhash_entries= [KNL,NET]
Set number of hash buckets for UDP/UDP-Lite connections
@@ -2543,6 +2558,11 @@ bytes respectively. Such letter suffixes can also be entirely omitted.
unknown_nmi_panic
[X86] Cause panic on unknown NMI.
+ usbcore.authorized_default=
+ [USB] Default USB device authorization:
+ (default -1 = authorized except for wireless USB,
+ 0 = not authorized, 1 = authorized)
+
usbcore.autosuspend=
[USB] The autosuspend time delay (in seconds) used
for newly-detected USB devices (default 2). This