PPT Parallel port support is enabled.
PS2 Appropriate PS/2 support is enabled.
RAM RAM disk support is enabled.
+ ROOTPLUG The example Root Plug LSM is enabled.
S390 S390 architecture is enabled.
SCSI Appropriate SCSI support is enabled.
A lot of drivers has their options described inside of
Documentation/scsi/.
+ SECURITY Different security models are enabled.
SELINUX SELinux support is enabled.
SERIAL Serial support is enabled.
SH SuperH architecture is enabled.
Warning: Many of these options can produce a lot of
output and make your system unusable. Be very careful.
-
- acpi_fake_ecdt [HW,ACPI] Workaround failure due to BIOS lacking ECDT
-
acpi_pm_good [X86-32,X86-64]
Override the pmtimer bug detection: force the kernel
to assume that this machine's pmtimer latches its value
apm= [APM] Advanced Power Management
See header of arch/i386/kernel/apm.c.
- applicom= [HW]
- Format: <mem>,<irq>
-
arcrimi= [HW,NET] ARCnet - "RIM I" (entirely mem-mapped) cards
Format: <io>,<irq>,<nodeID>
Format: <io>,<irq>,<mode>
See header of drivers/net/hamradio/baycom_ser_hdx.c.
- blkmtd_device= [HW,MTD]
- blkmtd_erasesz=
- blkmtd_ro=
- blkmtd_bs=
- blkmtd_count=
-
boot_delay= Milliseconds to delay each printk during boot.
Values larger than 10 seconds (10000) are changed to
no delay (0).
possible to determine what the correct size should be.
This option provides an override for these situations.
+ capability.disable=
+ [SECURITY] Disable capabilities. This would normally
+ be used only if an alternative security model is to be
+ configured. Potentially dangerous and should only be
+ used if you are entirely sure of the consequences.
+
chandev= [HW,NET] Generic channel device initialisation
checkreqprot [SELINUX] Set initial checkreqprot flag value.
over the 8254 in addition to over the IO-APIC. The
kernel tries to set a sensible default.
- hpet= [X86-32,HPET] option to disable HPET and use PIT.
- Format: disable
+ hpet= [X86-32,HPET] option to control HPET usage
+ Format: { enable (default) | disable | force }
+ disable: disable HPET and use PIT instead
+ force: allow force enabled of undocumented chips (ICH4, VIA)
com20020= [HW,NET] ARCnet - COM20020 chipset
Format:
UART at the specified I/O port or MMIO address.
The options are the same as for ttyS, above.
+ no_console_suspend
+ [HW] Never suspend the console
+ Disable suspending of consoles during suspend and
+ hibernate operations. Once disabled, debugging
+ messages can reach various consoles while the rest
+ of the system is being put to sleep (ie, while
+ debugging driver suspend/resume hooks). This may
+ not work reliably with all consoles, but is known
+ to work with serial and VGA consoles.
+
cpcihp_generic= [HW,PCI] Generic port I/O CompactPCI driver
Format:
<first_slot>,<last_slot>,<port>,<enum_bit>[,<debug>]
[KNL] Reserve a chunk of physical memory to
hold a kernel to switch to with kexec on panic.
+ 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.
+
cs4232= [HW,OSS]
Format: <io>,<irq>,<dma>,<dma2>,<mpuio>,<mpuirq>
cs89x0_media= [HW,NET]
Format: { rj45 | aui | bnc }
- cyclades= [HW,SERIAL] Cyclades multi-serial port adapter.
-
dasd= [HW,NET]
See header of drivers/s390/block/dasd_devmap.c.
See drivers/char/README.epca and
Documentation/digiepca.txt.
- dmascc= [HW,AX25,SERIAL] AX.25 Z80SCC driver with DMA
- support available.
- Format: <io_dev0>[,<io_dev1>[,..<io_dev32>]]
-
dmasound= [HW,OSS] Sound subsystem buffers
dscc4.setup= [NET]
0: polling mode
non-0: interrupt mode (default)
- eda= [HW,PS2]
-
- edb= [HW,PS2]
-
edd= [EDD]
Format: {"of[f]" | "sk[ipmbr]"}
See comment in arch/i386/boot/edd.S
- eicon= [HW,ISDN]
- Format: <id>,<membase>,<irq>
-
eisa_irq_edge= [PARISC,HW]
See header of drivers/parisc/eisa.c.
lapic_timer_c2_ok [X86-32,x86-64,APIC] trust the local apic timer in
C2 power state.
- lasi= [HW,SCSI] PARISC LASI driver for the 53c700 chip
- Format: addr:<io>,irq:<irq>
-
libata.noacpi [LIBATA] Disables use of ACPI in libata suspend/resume
when set.
Format: <int>
mce [X86-32] Machine Check Exception
+ mce=option [X86-64] See Documentation/x86_64/boot-options.txt
+
md= [HW] RAID subsystems devices and level
See Documentation/md.txt.
noapic [SMP,APIC] Tells the kernel to not make use of any
IOAPICs that may be present in the system.
- noasync [HW,M68K] Disables async and sync negotiation for
- all devices.
-
nobats [PPC] Do not use BATs for mapping kernel lowmem
on "Classic" PPC cores.
Param: <number> - step/bucket size as a power of 2 for
statistical time based profiling.
Param: "sleep" - profile D-state sleeping (millisecs)
+ Param: "kvm" - profile VM exits.
processor.max_cstate= [HW,ACPI]
Limit processor to maximum C-state
raid= [HW,RAID]
See Documentation/md.txt.
- ramdisk= [RAM] Sizes of RAM disks in kilobytes [deprecated]
- See Documentation/ramdisk.txt.
-
ramdisk_blocksize= [RAM]
See Documentation/ramdisk.txt.
ramdisk_size= [RAM] Sizes of RAM disks in kilobytes
- New name for the ramdisk parameter.
See Documentation/ramdisk.txt.
rcu.blimit= [KNL,BOOT] Set maximum number of finished
Useful for devices that are detected asynchronously
(e.g. USB and MMC devices).
+ root_plug.vendor_id=
+ [ROOTPLUG] Override the default vendor ID
+
+ root_plug.product_id=
+ [ROOTPLUG] Override the default product ID
+
+ root_plug.debug=
+ [ROOTPLUG] Enable debugging output
+
rw [KNL] Mount root device read-write on boot
S [KNL] Run init in single mode
sa1100ir [NET]
See drivers/net/irda/sa1100_ir.c.
- sb= [HW,OSS]
- Format: <io>,<irq>,<dma>,<dma2>
-
sbni= [NET] Granch SBNI12 leased line adapter
sc1200wdt= [HW,WDT] SC1200 WDT (watchdog) driver
serialnumber [BUGS=X86-32]
- sg_def_reserved_size= [SCSI]
-
shapers= [NET]
Maximal number of shapers.
norandmaps Don't use address space randomization
Equivalent to echo 0 > /proc/sys/kernel/randomize_va_space
- unwind_debug=N N > 0 will enable dwarf2 unwinder debugging
- This is useful to get more information why
- you got a "dwarf2 unwinder stuck"
-
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