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1 Kernel Parameters
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
20 Hyphens (dashes) and underscores are equivalent in parameter names, so
21 log_buf_len=1M print-fatal-signals=1
22 can also be entered as
23 log-buf-len=1M print_fatal_signals=1
24
25
26 This document may not be entirely up to date and comprehensive. The command
27 "modinfo -p ${modulename}" shows a current list of all parameters of a loadable
28 module. Loadable modules, after being loaded into the running kernel, also
29 reveal their parameters in /sys/module/${modulename}/parameters/. Some of these
30 parameters may be changed at runtime by the command
31 "echo -n ${value} > /sys/module/${modulename}/parameters/${parm}".
32
33 The parameters listed below are only valid if certain kernel build options were
34 enabled and if respective hardware is present. The text in square brackets at
35 the beginning of each description states the restrictions within which a
36 parameter is applicable:
37
38 ACPI ACPI support is enabled.
39 AGP AGP (Accelerated Graphics Port) is enabled.
40 ALSA ALSA sound support is enabled.
41 APIC APIC support is enabled.
42 APM Advanced Power Management support is enabled.
43 AVR32 AVR32 architecture is enabled.
44 AX25 Appropriate AX.25 support is enabled.
45 BLACKFIN Blackfin architecture is enabled.
46 DRM Direct Rendering Management support is enabled.
47 EDD BIOS Enhanced Disk Drive Services (EDD) is enabled
48 EFI EFI Partitioning (GPT) is enabled
49 EIDE EIDE/ATAPI support is enabled.
50 FB The frame buffer device is enabled.
51 GCOV GCOV profiling is enabled.
52 HW Appropriate hardware is enabled.
53 IA-64 IA-64 architecture is enabled.
54 IMA Integrity measurement architecture is enabled.
55 IOSCHED More than one I/O scheduler is enabled.
56 IP_PNP IP DHCP, BOOTP, or RARP is enabled.
57 ISAPNP ISA PnP code is enabled.
58 ISDN Appropriate ISDN support is enabled.
59 JOY Appropriate joystick support is enabled.
60 LIBATA Libata driver is enabled
61 LP Printer support is enabled.
62 LOOP Loopback device support is enabled.
63 M68k M68k architecture is enabled.
64 These options have more detailed description inside of
65 Documentation/m68k/kernel-options.txt.
66 MCA MCA bus support is enabled.
67 MDA MDA console support is enabled.
68 MOUSE Appropriate mouse support is enabled.
69 MSI Message Signaled Interrupts (PCI).
70 MTD MTD (Memory Technology Device) support is enabled.
71 NET Appropriate network support is enabled.
72 NUMA NUMA support is enabled.
73 GENERIC_TIME The generic timeofday code is enabled.
74 NFS Appropriate NFS support is enabled.
75 OSS OSS sound support is enabled.
76 PV_OPS A paravirtualized kernel is enabled.
77 PARIDE The ParIDE (parallel port IDE) subsystem is enabled.
78 PARISC The PA-RISC architecture is enabled.
79 PCI PCI bus support is enabled.
80 PCIE PCI Express support is enabled.
81 PCMCIA The PCMCIA subsystem is enabled.
82 PNP Plug & Play support is enabled.
83 PPC PowerPC architecture is enabled.
84 PPT Parallel port support is enabled.
85 PS2 Appropriate PS/2 support is enabled.
86 RAM RAM disk support is enabled.
87 ROOTPLUG The example Root Plug LSM is enabled.
88 S390 S390 architecture is enabled.
89 SCSI Appropriate SCSI support is enabled.
90 A lot of drivers has their options described inside of
91 Documentation/scsi/.
92 SECURITY Different security models are enabled.
93 SELINUX SELinux support is enabled.
94 SERIAL Serial support is enabled.
95 SH SuperH architecture is enabled.
96 SMP The kernel is an SMP kernel.
97 SPARC Sparc architecture is enabled.
98 SWSUSP Software suspend (hibernation) is enabled.
99 SUSPEND System suspend states are enabled.
100 FTRACE Function tracing enabled.
101 TS Appropriate touchscreen support is enabled.
102 UMS USB Mass Storage support is enabled.
103 USB USB support is enabled.
104 USBHID USB Human Interface Device support is enabled.
105 V4L Video For Linux support is enabled.
106 VGA The VGA console has been enabled.
107 VT Virtual terminal support is enabled.
108 WDT Watchdog support is enabled.
109 XT IBM PC/XT MFM hard disk support is enabled.
110 X86-32 X86-32, aka i386 architecture is enabled.
111 X86-64 X86-64 architecture is enabled.
112 More X86-64 boot options can be found in
113 Documentation/x86/x86_64/boot-options.txt .
114 X86 Either 32bit or 64bit x86 (same as X86-32+X86-64)
115
116 In addition, the following text indicates that the option:
117
118 BUGS= Relates to possible processor bugs on the said processor.
119 KNL Is a kernel start-up parameter.
120 BOOT Is a boot loader parameter.
121
122 Parameters denoted with BOOT are actually interpreted by the boot
123 loader, and have no meaning to the kernel directly.
124 Do not modify the syntax of boot loader parameters without extreme
125 need or coordination with <Documentation/x86/boot.txt>.
126
127 There are also arch-specific kernel-parameters not documented here.
128 See for example <Documentation/x86/x86_64/boot-options.txt>.
129
130 Note that ALL kernel parameters listed below are CASE SENSITIVE, and that
131 a trailing = on the name of any parameter states that that parameter will
132 be entered as an environment variable, whereas its absence indicates that
133 it will appear as a kernel argument readable via /proc/cmdline by programs
134 running once the system is up.
135
136 The number of kernel parameters is not limited, but the length of the
137 complete command line (parameters including spaces etc.) is limited to
138 a fixed number of characters. This limit depends on the architecture
139 and is between 256 and 4096 characters. It is defined in the file
140 ./include/asm/setup.h as COMMAND_LINE_SIZE.
141
142
143 acpi= [HW,ACPI,X86]
144 Advanced Configuration and Power Interface
145 Format: { force | off | ht | strict | noirq | rsdt }
146 force -- enable ACPI if default was off
147 off -- disable ACPI if default was on
148 noirq -- do not use ACPI for IRQ routing
149 ht -- run only enough ACPI to enable Hyper Threading
150 strict -- Be less tolerant of platforms that are not
151 strictly ACPI specification compliant.
152 rsdt -- prefer RSDT over (default) XSDT
153
154 See also Documentation/power/pm.txt, pci=noacpi
155
156 acpi_apic_instance= [ACPI, IOAPIC]
157 Format: <int>
158 2: use 2nd APIC table, if available
159 1,0: use 1st APIC table
160 default: 0
161
162 acpi_backlight= [HW,ACPI]
163 acpi_backlight=vendor
164 acpi_backlight=video
165 If set to vendor, prefer vendor specific driver
166 (e.g. thinkpad_acpi, sony_acpi, etc.) instead
167 of the ACPI video.ko driver.
168
169 acpi.debug_layer= [HW,ACPI,ACPI_DEBUG]
170 acpi.debug_level= [HW,ACPI,ACPI_DEBUG]
171 Format: <int>
172 CONFIG_ACPI_DEBUG must be enabled to produce any ACPI
173 debug output. Bits in debug_layer correspond to a
174 _COMPONENT in an ACPI source file, e.g.,
175 #define _COMPONENT ACPI_PCI_COMPONENT
176 Bits in debug_level correspond to a level in
177 ACPI_DEBUG_PRINT statements, e.g.,
178 ACPI_DEBUG_PRINT((ACPI_DB_INFO, ...
179 The debug_level mask defaults to "info". See
180 Documentation/acpi/debug.txt for more information about
181 debug layers and levels.
182
183 Enable processor driver info messages:
184 acpi.debug_layer=0x20000000
185 Enable PCI/PCI interrupt routing info messages:
186 acpi.debug_layer=0x400000
187 Enable AML "Debug" output, i.e., stores to the Debug
188 object while interpreting AML:
189 acpi.debug_layer=0xffffffff acpi.debug_level=0x2
190 Enable all messages related to ACPI hardware:
191 acpi.debug_layer=0x2 acpi.debug_level=0xffffffff
192
193 Some values produce so much output that the system is
194 unusable. The "log_buf_len" parameter may be useful
195 if you need to capture more output.
196
197 acpi_display_output= [HW,ACPI]
198 acpi_display_output=vendor
199 acpi_display_output=video
200 See above.
201
202 acpi_irq_balance [HW,ACPI]
203 ACPI will balance active IRQs
204 default in APIC mode
205
206 acpi_irq_nobalance [HW,ACPI]
207 ACPI will not move active IRQs (default)
208 default in PIC mode
209
210 acpi_irq_isa= [HW,ACPI] If irq_balance, mark listed IRQs used by ISA
211 Format: <irq>,<irq>...
212
213 acpi_irq_pci= [HW,ACPI] If irq_balance, clear listed IRQs for
214 use by PCI
215 Format: <irq>,<irq>...
216
217 acpi_no_auto_ssdt [HW,ACPI] Disable automatic loading of SSDT
218
219 acpi_os_name= [HW,ACPI] Tell ACPI BIOS the name of the OS
220 Format: To spoof as Windows 98: ="Microsoft Windows"
221
222 acpi_osi= [HW,ACPI] Modify list of supported OS interface strings
223 acpi_osi="string1" # add string1 -- only one string
224 acpi_osi="!string2" # remove built-in string2
225 acpi_osi= # disable all strings
226
227 acpi_pm_good [X86]
228 Override the pmtimer bug detection: force the kernel
229 to assume that this machine's pmtimer latches its value
230 and always returns good values.
231
232 acpi_sci= [HW,ACPI] ACPI System Control Interrupt trigger mode
233 Format: { level | edge | high | low }
234
235 acpi_serialize [HW,ACPI] force serialization of AML methods
236
237 acpi_skip_timer_override [HW,ACPI]
238 Recognize and ignore IRQ0/pin2 Interrupt Override.
239 For broken nForce2 BIOS resulting in XT-PIC timer.
240
241 acpi_sleep= [HW,ACPI] Sleep options
242 Format: { s3_bios, s3_mode, s3_beep, s4_nohwsig,
243 old_ordering, s4_nonvs }
244 See Documentation/power/video.txt for information on
245 s3_bios and s3_mode.
246 s3_beep is for debugging; it makes the PC's speaker beep
247 as soon as the kernel's real-mode entry point is called.
248 s4_nohwsig prevents ACPI hardware signature from being
249 used during resume from hibernation.
250 old_ordering causes the ACPI 1.0 ordering of the _PTS
251 control method, with respect to putting devices into
252 low power states, to be enforced (the ACPI 2.0 ordering
253 of _PTS is used by default).
254 s4_nonvs prevents the kernel from saving/restoring the
255 ACPI NVS memory during hibernation.
256
257 acpi_use_timer_override [HW,ACPI]
258 Use timer override. For some broken Nvidia NF5 boards
259 that require a timer override, but don't have HPET
260
261 acpi_enforce_resources= [ACPI]
262 { strict | lax | no }
263 Check for resource conflicts between native drivers
264 and ACPI OperationRegions (SystemIO and SystemMemory
265 only). IO ports and memory declared in ACPI might be
266 used by the ACPI subsystem in arbitrary AML code and
267 can interfere with legacy drivers.
268 strict (default): access to resources claimed by ACPI
269 is denied; legacy drivers trying to access reserved
270 resources will fail to bind to device using them.
271 lax: access to resources claimed by ACPI is allowed;
272 legacy drivers trying to access reserved resources
273 will bind successfully but a warning message is logged.
274 no: ACPI OperationRegions are not marked as reserved,
275 no further checks are performed.
276
277 ad1848= [HW,OSS]
278 Format: <io>,<irq>,<dma>,<dma2>,<type>
279
280 add_efi_memmap [EFI; X86] Include EFI memory map in
281 kernel's map of available physical RAM.
282
283 advansys= [HW,SCSI]
284 See header of drivers/scsi/advansys.c.
285
286 advwdt= [HW,WDT] Advantech WDT
287 Format: <iostart>,<iostop>
288
289 aedsp16= [HW,OSS] Audio Excel DSP 16
290 Format: <io>,<irq>,<dma>,<mss_io>,<mpu_io>,<mpu_irq>
291 See also header of sound/oss/aedsp16.c.
292
293 agp= [AGP]
294 { off | try_unsupported }
295 off: disable AGP support
296 try_unsupported: try to drive unsupported chipsets
297 (may crash computer or cause data corruption)
298
299 aha152x= [HW,SCSI]
300 See Documentation/scsi/aha152x.txt.
301
302 aha1542= [HW,SCSI]
303 Format: <portbase>[,<buson>,<busoff>[,<dmaspeed>]]
304
305 aic7xxx= [HW,SCSI]
306 See Documentation/scsi/aic7xxx.txt.
307
308 aic79xx= [HW,SCSI]
309 See Documentation/scsi/aic79xx.txt.
310
311 amd_iommu= [HW,X86-84]
312 Pass parameters to the AMD IOMMU driver in the system.
313 Possible values are:
314 isolate - enable device isolation (each device, as far
315 as possible, will get its own protection
316 domain) [default]
317 share - put every device behind one IOMMU into the
318 same protection domain
319 fullflush - enable flushing of IO/TLB entries when
320 they are unmapped. Otherwise they are
321 flushed before they will be reused, which
322 is a lot of faster
323
324 amijoy.map= [HW,JOY] Amiga joystick support
325 Map of devices attached to JOY0DAT and JOY1DAT
326 Format: <a>,<b>
327 See also Documentation/kernel/input/joystick.txt
328
329 analog.map= [HW,JOY] Analog joystick and gamepad support
330 Specifies type or capabilities of an analog joystick
331 connected to one of 16 gameports
332 Format: <type1>,<type2>,..<type16>
333
334 apc= [HW,SPARC]
335 Power management functions (SPARCstation-4/5 + deriv.)
336 Format: noidle
337 Disable APC CPU standby support. SPARCstation-Fox does
338 not play well with APC CPU idle - disable it if you have
339 APC and your system crashes randomly.
340
341 apic= [APIC,X86-32] Advanced Programmable Interrupt Controller
342 Change the output verbosity whilst booting
343 Format: { quiet (default) | verbose | debug }
344 Change the amount of debugging information output
345 when initialising the APIC and IO-APIC components.
346
347 apm= [APM] Advanced Power Management
348 See header of arch/x86/kernel/apm_32.c.
349
350 arcrimi= [HW,NET] ARCnet - "RIM I" (entirely mem-mapped) cards
351 Format: <io>,<irq>,<nodeID>
352
353 ataflop= [HW,M68k]
354
355 atarimouse= [HW,MOUSE] Atari Mouse
356
357 atascsi= [HW,SCSI] Atari SCSI
358
359 atkbd.extra= [HW] Enable extra LEDs and keys on IBM RapidAccess,
360 EzKey and similar keyboards
361
362 atkbd.reset= [HW] Reset keyboard during initialization
363
364 atkbd.set= [HW] Select keyboard code set
365 Format: <int> (2 = AT (default), 3 = PS/2)
366
367 atkbd.scroll= [HW] Enable scroll wheel on MS Office and similar
368 keyboards
369
370 atkbd.softraw= [HW] Choose between synthetic and real raw mode
371 Format: <bool> (0 = real, 1 = synthetic (default))
372
373 atkbd.softrepeat= [HW]
374 Use software keyboard repeat
375
376 autotest [IA64]
377
378 baycom_epp= [HW,AX25]
379 Format: <io>,<mode>
380
381 baycom_par= [HW,AX25] BayCom Parallel Port AX.25 Modem
382 Format: <io>,<mode>
383 See header of drivers/net/hamradio/baycom_par.c.
384
385 baycom_ser_fdx= [HW,AX25]
386 BayCom Serial Port AX.25 Modem (Full Duplex Mode)
387 Format: <io>,<irq>,<mode>[,<baud>]
388 See header of drivers/net/hamradio/baycom_ser_fdx.c.
389
390 baycom_ser_hdx= [HW,AX25]
391 BayCom Serial Port AX.25 Modem (Half Duplex Mode)
392 Format: <io>,<irq>,<mode>
393 See header of drivers/net/hamradio/baycom_ser_hdx.c.
394
395 boot_delay= Milliseconds to delay each printk during boot.
396 Values larger than 10 seconds (10000) are changed to
397 no delay (0).
398 Format: integer
399
400 bootmem_debug [KNL] Enable bootmem allocator debug messages.
401
402 bttv.card= [HW,V4L] bttv (bt848 + bt878 based grabber cards)
403 bttv.radio= Most important insmod options are available as
404 kernel args too.
405 bttv.pll= See Documentation/video4linux/bttv/Insmod-options
406 bttv.tuner= and Documentation/video4linux/bttv/CARDLIST
407
408 BusLogic= [HW,SCSI]
409 See drivers/scsi/BusLogic.c, comment before function
410 BusLogic_ParseDriverOptions().
411
412 c101= [NET] Moxa C101 synchronous serial card
413
414 cachesize= [BUGS=X86-32] Override level 2 CPU cache size detection.
415 Sometimes CPU hardware bugs make them report the cache
416 size incorrectly. The kernel will attempt work arounds
417 to fix known problems, but for some CPUs it is not
418 possible to determine what the correct size should be.
419 This option provides an override for these situations.
420
421 capability.disable=
422 [SECURITY] Disable capabilities. This would normally
423 be used only if an alternative security model is to be
424 configured. Potentially dangerous and should only be
425 used if you are entirely sure of the consequences.
426
427 ccw_timeout_log [S390]
428 See Documentation/s390/CommonIO for details.
429
430 cgroup_disable= [KNL] Disable a particular controller
431 Format: {name of the controller(s) to disable}
432 {Currently supported controllers - "memory"}
433
434 checkreqprot [SELINUX] Set initial checkreqprot flag value.
435 Format: { "0" | "1" }
436 See security/selinux/Kconfig help text.
437 0 -- check protection applied by kernel (includes
438 any implied execute protection).
439 1 -- check protection requested by application.
440 Default value is set via a kernel config option.
441 Value can be changed at runtime via
442 /selinux/checkreqprot.
443
444 cio_ignore= [S390]
445 See Documentation/s390/CommonIO for details.
446
447 clock= [BUGS=X86-32, HW] gettimeofday clocksource override.
448 [Deprecated]
449 Forces specified clocksource (if available) to be used
450 when calculating gettimeofday(). If specified
451 clocksource is not available, it defaults to PIT.
452 Format: { pit | tsc | cyclone | pmtmr }
453
454 clocksource= [GENERIC_TIME] Override the default clocksource
455 Format: <string>
456 Override the default clocksource and use the clocksource
457 with the name specified.
458 Some clocksource names to choose from, depending on
459 the platform:
460 [all] jiffies (this is the base, fallback clocksource)
461 [ACPI] acpi_pm
462 [ARM] imx_timer1,OSTS,netx_timer,mpu_timer2,
463 pxa_timer,timer3,32k_counter,timer0_1
464 [AVR32] avr32
465 [X86-32] pit,hpet,tsc,vmi-timer;
466 scx200_hrt on Geode; cyclone on IBM x440
467 [MIPS] MIPS
468 [PARISC] cr16
469 [S390] tod
470 [SH] SuperH
471 [SPARC64] tick
472 [X86-64] hpet,tsc
473
474 clearcpuid=BITNUM [X86]
475 Disable CPUID feature X for the kernel. See
476 arch/x86/include/asm/cpufeature.h for the valid bit
477 numbers. Note the Linux specific bits are not necessarily
478 stable over kernel options, but the vendor specific
479 ones should be.
480 Also note that user programs calling CPUID directly
481 or using the feature without checking anything
482 will still see it. This just prevents it from
483 being used by the kernel or shown in /proc/cpuinfo.
484 Also note the kernel might malfunction if you disable
485 some critical bits.
486
487 cmo_free_hint= [PPC] Format: { yes | no }
488 Specify whether pages are marked as being inactive
489 when they are freed. This is used in CMO environments
490 to determine OS memory pressure for page stealing by
491 a hypervisor.
492 Default: yes
493
494 code_bytes [X86] How many bytes of object code to print
495 in an oops report.
496 Range: 0 - 8192
497 Default: 64
498
499 com20020= [HW,NET] ARCnet - COM20020 chipset
500 Format:
501 <io>[,<irq>[,<nodeID>[,<backplane>[,<ckp>[,<timeout>]]]]]
502
503 com90io= [HW,NET] ARCnet - COM90xx chipset (IO-mapped buffers)
504 Format: <io>[,<irq>]
505
506 com90xx= [HW,NET]
507 ARCnet - COM90xx chipset (memory-mapped buffers)
508 Format: <io>[,<irq>[,<memstart>]]
509
510 condev= [HW,S390] console device
511 conmode=
512
513 console= [KNL] Output console device and options.
514
515 tty<n> Use the virtual console device <n>.
516
517 ttyS<n>[,options]
518 ttyUSB0[,options]
519 Use the specified serial port. The options are of
520 the form "bbbbpnf", where "bbbb" is the baud rate,
521 "p" is parity ("n", "o", or "e"), "n" is number of
522 bits, and "f" is flow control ("r" for RTS or
523 omit it). Default is "9600n8".
524
525 See Documentation/serial-console.txt for more
526 information. See
527 Documentation/networking/netconsole.txt for an
528 alternative.
529
530 uart[8250],io,<addr>[,options]
531 uart[8250],mmio,<addr>[,options]
532 Start an early, polled-mode console on the 8250/16550
533 UART at the specified I/O port or MMIO address,
534 switching to the matching ttyS device later. The
535 options are the same as for ttyS, above.
536
537 If the device connected to the port is not a TTY but a braille
538 device, prepend "brl," before the device type, for instance
539 console=brl,ttyS0
540 For now, only VisioBraille is supported.
541
542 consoleblank= [KNL] The console blank (screen saver) timeout in
543 seconds. Defaults to 10*60 = 10mins. A value of 0
544 disables the blank timer.
545
546 coredump_filter=
547 [KNL] Change the default value for
548 /proc/<pid>/coredump_filter.
549 See also Documentation/filesystems/proc.txt.
550
551 cpcihp_generic= [HW,PCI] Generic port I/O CompactPCI driver
552 Format:
553 <first_slot>,<last_slot>,<port>,<enum_bit>[,<debug>]
554
555 crashkernel=nn[KMG]@ss[KMG]
556 [KNL] Reserve a chunk of physical memory to
557 hold a kernel to switch to with kexec on panic.
558
559 crashkernel=range1:size1[,range2:size2,...][@offset]
560 [KNL] Same as above, but depends on the memory
561 in the running system. The syntax of range is
562 start-[end] where start and end are both
563 a memory unit (amount[KMG]). See also
564 Documentation/kdump/kdump.txt for a example.
565
566 cs89x0_dma= [HW,NET]
567 Format: <dma>
568
569 cs89x0_media= [HW,NET]
570 Format: { rj45 | aui | bnc }
571
572 dasd= [HW,NET]
573 See header of drivers/s390/block/dasd_devmap.c.
574
575 db9.dev[2|3]= [HW,JOY] Multisystem joystick support via parallel port
576 (one device per port)
577 Format: <port#>,<type>
578 See also Documentation/input/joystick-parport.txt
579
580 debug [KNL] Enable kernel debugging (events log level).
581
582 debug_locks_verbose=
583 [KNL] verbose self-tests
584 Format=<0|1>
585 Print debugging info while doing the locking API
586 self-tests.
587 We default to 0 (no extra messages), setting it to
588 1 will print _a lot_ more information - normally
589 only useful to kernel developers.
590
591 debug_objects [KNL] Enable object debugging
592
593 no_debug_objects
594 [KNL] Disable object debugging
595
596 debugpat [X86] Enable PAT debugging
597
598 decnet.addr= [HW,NET]
599 Format: <area>[,<node>]
600 See also Documentation/networking/decnet.txt.
601
602 default_hugepagesz=
603 [same as hugepagesz=] The size of the default
604 HugeTLB page size. This is the size represented by
605 the legacy /proc/ hugepages APIs, used for SHM, and
606 default size when mounting hugetlbfs filesystems.
607 Defaults to the default architecture's huge page size
608 if not specified.
609
610 dhash_entries= [KNL]
611 Set number of hash buckets for dentry cache.
612
613 digi= [HW,SERIAL]
614 IO parameters + enable/disable command.
615
616 digiepca= [HW,SERIAL]
617 See drivers/char/README.epca and
618 Documentation/serial/digiepca.txt.
619
620 disable_mtrr_cleanup [X86]
621 The kernel tries to adjust MTRR layout from continuous
622 to discrete, to make X server driver able to add WB
623 entry later. This parameter disables that.
624
625 disable_mtrr_trim [X86, Intel and AMD only]
626 By default the kernel will trim any uncacheable
627 memory out of your available memory pool based on
628 MTRR settings. This parameter disables that behavior,
629 possibly causing your machine to run very slowly.
630
631 disable_timer_pin_1 [X86]
632 Disable PIN 1 of APIC timer
633 Can be useful to work around chipset bugs.
634
635 dmasound= [HW,OSS] Sound subsystem buffers
636
637 dma_debug=off If the kernel is compiled with DMA_API_DEBUG support,
638 this option disables the debugging code at boot.
639
640 dma_debug_entries=<number>
641 This option allows to tune the number of preallocated
642 entries for DMA-API debugging code. One entry is
643 required per DMA-API allocation. Use this if the
644 DMA-API debugging code disables itself because the
645 architectural default is too low.
646
647 dma_debug_driver=<driver_name>
648 With this option the DMA-API debugging driver
649 filter feature can be enabled at boot time. Just
650 pass the driver to filter for as the parameter.
651 The filter can be disabled or changed to another
652 driver later using sysfs.
653
654 dscc4.setup= [NET]
655
656 dtc3181e= [HW,SCSI]
657
658 dynamic_printk Enables pr_debug()/dev_dbg() calls if
659 CONFIG_DYNAMIC_PRINTK_DEBUG has been enabled.
660 These can also be switched on/off via
661 <debugfs>/dynamic_printk/modules
662
663 earlycon= [KNL] Output early console device and options.
664 uart[8250],io,<addr>[,options]
665 uart[8250],mmio,<addr>[,options]
666 Start an early, polled-mode console on the 8250/16550
667 UART at the specified I/O port or MMIO address.
668 The options are the same as for ttyS, above.
669
670 earlyprintk= [X86,SH,BLACKFIN]
671 earlyprintk=vga
672 earlyprintk=serial[,ttySn[,baudrate]]
673 earlyprintk=dbgp
674
675 Append ",keep" to not disable it when the real console
676 takes over.
677
678 Only vga or serial or usb debug port at a time.
679
680 Currently only ttyS0 and ttyS1 are supported.
681
682 Interaction with the standard serial driver is not
683 very good.
684
685 The VGA output is eventually overwritten by the real
686 console.
687
688 eata= [HW,SCSI]
689
690 edd= [EDD]
691 Format: {"off" | "on" | "skip[mbr]"}
692
693 eisa_irq_edge= [PARISC,HW]
694 See header of drivers/parisc/eisa.c.
695
696 elanfreq= [X86-32]
697 See comment before function elanfreq_setup() in
698 arch/x86/kernel/cpu/cpufreq/elanfreq.c.
699
700 elevator= [IOSCHED]
701 Format: {"anticipatory" | "cfq" | "deadline" | "noop"}
702 See Documentation/block/as-iosched.txt and
703 Documentation/block/deadline-iosched.txt for details.
704
705 elfcorehdr= [IA64,PPC,SH,X86]
706 Specifies physical address of start of kernel core
707 image elf header. Generally kexec loader will
708 pass this option to capture kernel.
709 See Documentation/kdump/kdump.txt for details.
710
711 enable_mtrr_cleanup [X86]
712 The kernel tries to adjust MTRR layout from continuous
713 to discrete, to make X server driver able to add WB
714 entry later. This parameter enables that.
715
716 enable_timer_pin_1 [X86]
717 Enable PIN 1 of APIC timer
718 Can be useful to work around chipset bugs
719 (in particular on some ATI chipsets).
720 The kernel tries to set a reasonable default.
721
722 enforcing [SELINUX] Set initial enforcing status.
723 Format: {"0" | "1"}
724 See security/selinux/Kconfig help text.
725 0 -- permissive (log only, no denials).
726 1 -- enforcing (deny and log).
727 Default value is 0.
728 Value can be changed at runtime via /selinux/enforce.
729
730 ether= [HW,NET] Ethernet cards parameters
731 This option is obsoleted by the "netdev=" option, which
732 has equivalent usage. See its documentation for details.
733
734 eurwdt= [HW,WDT] Eurotech CPU-1220/1410 onboard watchdog.
735 Format: <io>[,<irq>]
736
737 failslab=
738 fail_page_alloc=
739 fail_make_request=[KNL]
740 General fault injection mechanism.
741 Format: <interval>,<probability>,<space>,<times>
742 See also /Documentation/fault-injection/.
743
744 fd_mcs= [HW,SCSI]
745 See header of drivers/scsi/fd_mcs.c.
746
747 fdomain= [HW,SCSI]
748 See header of drivers/scsi/fdomain.c.
749
750 floppy= [HW]
751 See Documentation/blockdev/floppy.txt.
752
753 force_pal_cache_flush
754 [IA-64] Avoid check_sal_cache_flush which may hang on
755 buggy SAL_CACHE_FLUSH implementations. Using this
756 parameter will force ia64_sal_cache_flush to call
757 ia64_pal_cache_flush instead of SAL_CACHE_FLUSH.
758
759 ftrace=[tracer]
760 [FTRACE] will set and start the specified tracer
761 as early as possible in order to facilitate early
762 boot debugging.
763
764 ftrace_dump_on_oops
765 [FTRACE] will dump the trace buffers on oops.
766
767 ftrace_filter=[function-list]
768 [FTRACE] Limit the functions traced by the function
769 tracer at boot up. function-list is a comma separated
770 list of functions. This list can be changed at run
771 time by the set_ftrace_filter file in the debugfs
772 tracing directory.
773
774 ftrace_notrace=[function-list]
775 [FTRACE] Do not trace the functions specified in
776 function-list. This list can be changed at run time
777 by the set_ftrace_notrace file in the debugfs
778 tracing directory.
779
780 gamecon.map[2|3]=
781 [HW,JOY] Multisystem joystick and NES/SNES/PSX pad
782 support via parallel port (up to 5 devices per port)
783 Format: <port#>,<pad1>,<pad2>,<pad3>,<pad4>,<pad5>
784 See also Documentation/input/joystick-parport.txt
785
786 gamma= [HW,DRM]
787
788 gart_fix_e820= [X86_64] disable the fix e820 for K8 GART
789 Format: off | on
790 default: on
791
792 gcov_persist= [GCOV] When non-zero (default), profiling data for
793 kernel modules is saved and remains accessible via
794 debugfs, even when the module is unloaded/reloaded.
795 When zero, profiling data is discarded and associated
796 debugfs files are removed at module unload time.
797
798 gdth= [HW,SCSI]
799 See header of drivers/scsi/gdth.c.
800
801 gpt [EFI] Forces disk with valid GPT signature but
802 invalid Protective MBR to be treated as GPT.
803
804 gvp11= [HW,SCSI]
805
806 hashdist= [KNL,NUMA] Large hashes allocated during boot
807 are distributed across NUMA nodes. Defaults on
808 for 64bit NUMA, off otherwise.
809 Format: 0 | 1 (for off | on)
810
811 hcl= [IA-64] SGI's Hardware Graph compatibility layer
812
813 hd= [EIDE] (E)IDE hard drive subsystem geometry
814 Format: <cyl>,<head>,<sect>
815
816 highmem=nn[KMG] [KNL,BOOT] forces the highmem zone to have an exact
817 size of <nn>. This works even on boxes that have no
818 highmem otherwise. This also works to reduce highmem
819 size on bigger boxes.
820
821 highres= [KNL] Enable/disable high resolution timer mode.
822 Valid parameters: "on", "off"
823 Default: "on"
824
825 hisax= [HW,ISDN]
826 See Documentation/isdn/README.HiSax.
827
828 hlt [BUGS=ARM,SH]
829
830 hpet= [X86-32,HPET] option to control HPET usage
831 Format: { enable (default) | disable | force |
832 verbose }
833 disable: disable HPET and use PIT instead
834 force: allow force enabled of undocumented chips (ICH4,
835 VIA, nVidia)
836 verbose: show contents of HPET registers during setup
837
838 hugepages= [HW,X86-32,IA-64] HugeTLB pages to allocate at boot.
839 hugepagesz= [HW,IA-64,PPC,X86-64] The size of the HugeTLB pages.
840 On x86-64 and powerpc, this option can be specified
841 multiple times interleaved with hugepages= to reserve
842 huge pages of different sizes. Valid pages sizes on
843 x86-64 are 2M (when the CPU supports "pse") and 1G
844 (when the CPU supports the "pdpe1gb" cpuinfo flag)
845 Note that 1GB pages can only be allocated at boot time
846 using hugepages= and not freed afterwards.
847
848 hvc_iucv= [S390] Number of z/VM IUCV hypervisor console (HVC)
849 terminal devices. Valid values: 0..8
850 hvc_iucv_allow= [S390] Comma-separated list of z/VM user IDs.
851 If specified, z/VM IUCV HVC accepts connections
852 from listed z/VM user IDs only.
853
854 i2c_bus= [HW] Override the default board specific I2C bus speed
855 or register an additional I2C bus that is not
856 registered from board initialization code.
857 Format:
858 <bus_id>,<clkrate>
859
860 i8042.debug [HW] Toggle i8042 debug mode
861 i8042.direct [HW] Put keyboard port into non-translated mode
862 i8042.dumbkbd [HW] Pretend that controller can only read data from
863 keyboard and cannot control its state
864 (Don't attempt to blink the leds)
865 i8042.noaux [HW] Don't check for auxiliary (== mouse) port
866 i8042.nokbd [HW] Don't check/create keyboard port
867 i8042.noloop [HW] Disable the AUX Loopback command while probing
868 for the AUX port
869 i8042.nomux [HW] Don't check presence of an active multiplexing
870 controller
871 i8042.nopnp [HW] Don't use ACPIPnP / PnPBIOS to discover KBD/AUX
872 controllers
873 i8042.panicblink=
874 [HW] Frequency with which keyboard LEDs should blink
875 when kernel panics (default is 0.5 sec)
876 i8042.reset [HW] Reset the controller during init and cleanup
877 i8042.unlock [HW] Unlock (ignore) the keylock
878
879 i810= [HW,DRM]
880
881 i8k.ignore_dmi [HW] Continue probing hardware even if DMI data
882 indicates that the driver is running on unsupported
883 hardware.
884 i8k.force [HW] Activate i8k driver even if SMM BIOS signature
885 does not match list of supported models.
886 i8k.power_status
887 [HW] Report power status in /proc/i8k
888 (disabled by default)
889 i8k.restricted [HW] Allow controlling fans only if SYS_ADMIN
890 capability is set.
891
892 ibmmcascsi= [HW,MCA,SCSI] IBM MicroChannel SCSI adapter
893 See Documentation/mca.txt.
894
895 icn= [HW,ISDN]
896 Format: <io>[,<membase>[,<icn_id>[,<icn_id2>]]]
897
898 ide-core.nodma= [HW] (E)IDE subsystem
899 Format: =0.0 to prevent dma on hda, =0.1 hdb =1.0 hdc
900 .vlb_clock .pci_clock .noflush .nohpa .noprobe .nowerr
901 .cdrom .chs .ignore_cable are additional options
902 See Documentation/ide/ide.txt.
903
904 ide-pci-generic.all-generic-ide [HW] (E)IDE subsystem
905 Claim all unknown PCI IDE storage controllers.
906
907 idle= [X86]
908 Format: idle=poll, idle=mwait, idle=halt, idle=nomwait
909 Poll forces a polling idle loop that can slightly
910 improve the performance of waking up a idle CPU, but
911 will use a lot of power and make the system run hot.
912 Not recommended.
913 idle=mwait: On systems which support MONITOR/MWAIT but
914 the kernel chose to not use it because it doesn't save
915 as much power as a normal idle loop, use the
916 MONITOR/MWAIT idle loop anyways. Performance should be
917 the same as idle=poll.
918 idle=halt: Halt is forced to be used for CPU idle.
919 In such case C2/C3 won't be used again.
920 idle=nomwait: Disable mwait for CPU C-states
921
922 ignore_loglevel [KNL]
923 Ignore loglevel setting - this will print /all/
924 kernel messages to the console. Useful for debugging.
925
926 ihash_entries= [KNL]
927 Set number of hash buckets for inode cache.
928
929 ima_audit= [IMA]
930 Format: { "0" | "1" }
931 0 -- integrity auditing messages. (Default)
932 1 -- enable informational integrity auditing messages.
933
934 ima_hash= [IMA]
935 Formt: { "sha1" | "md5" }
936 default: "sha1"
937
938 ima_tcb [IMA]
939 Load a policy which meets the needs of the Trusted
940 Computing Base. This means IMA will measure all
941 programs exec'd, files mmap'd for exec, and all files
942 opened for read by uid=0.
943
944 in2000= [HW,SCSI]
945 See header of drivers/scsi/in2000.c.
946
947 init= [KNL]
948 Format: <full_path>
949 Run specified binary instead of /sbin/init as init
950 process.
951
952 initcall_debug [KNL] Trace initcalls as they are executed. Useful
953 for working out where the kernel is dying during
954 startup.
955
956 initrd= [BOOT] Specify the location of the initial ramdisk
957
958 inport.irq= [HW] Inport (ATI XL and Microsoft) busmouse driver
959 Format: <irq>
960
961 intel_iommu= [DMAR] Intel IOMMU driver (DMAR) option
962 on
963 Enable intel iommu driver.
964 off
965 Disable intel iommu driver.
966 igfx_off [Default Off]
967 By default, gfx is mapped as normal device. If a gfx
968 device has a dedicated DMAR unit, the DMAR unit is
969 bypassed by not enabling DMAR with this option. In
970 this case, gfx device will use physical address for
971 DMA.
972 forcedac [x86_64]
973 With this option iommu will not optimize to look
974 for io virtual address below 32 bit forcing dual
975 address cycle on pci bus for cards supporting greater
976 than 32 bit addressing. The default is to look
977 for translation below 32 bit and if not available
978 then look in the higher range.
979 strict [Default Off]
980 With this option on every unmap_single operation will
981 result in a hardware IOTLB flush operation as opposed
982 to batching them for performance.
983
984 inttest= [IA64]
985
986 iomem= Disable strict checking of access to MMIO memory
987 strict regions from userspace.
988 relaxed
989
990 iommu= [x86]
991 off
992 force
993 noforce
994 biomerge
995 panic
996 nopanic
997 merge
998 nomerge
999 forcesac
1000 soft
1001 pt [x86, IA64]
1002
1003 io7= [HW] IO7 for Marvel based alpha systems
1004 See comment before marvel_specify_io7 in
1005 arch/alpha/kernel/core_marvel.c.
1006
1007 io_delay= [X86] I/O delay method
1008 0x80
1009 Standard port 0x80 based delay
1010 0xed
1011 Alternate port 0xed based delay (needed on some systems)
1012 udelay
1013 Simple two microseconds delay
1014 none
1015 No delay
1016
1017 ip= [IP_PNP]
1018 See Documentation/filesystems/nfsroot.txt.
1019
1020 ip2= [HW] Set IO/IRQ pairs for up to 4 IntelliPort boards
1021 See comment before ip2_setup() in
1022 drivers/char/ip2/ip2base.c.
1023
1024 ips= [HW,SCSI] Adaptec / IBM ServeRAID controller
1025 See header of drivers/scsi/ips.c.
1026
1027 irqfixup [HW]
1028 When an interrupt is not handled search all handlers
1029 for it. Intended to get systems with badly broken
1030 firmware running.
1031
1032 irqpoll [HW]
1033 When an interrupt is not handled search all handlers
1034 for it. Also check all handlers each timer
1035 interrupt. Intended to get systems with badly broken
1036 firmware running.
1037
1038 isapnp= [ISAPNP]
1039 Format: <RDP>,<reset>,<pci_scan>,<verbosity>
1040
1041 isolcpus= [KNL,SMP] Isolate CPUs from the general scheduler.
1042 Format:
1043 <cpu number>,...,<cpu number>
1044 or
1045 <cpu number>-<cpu number>
1046 (must be a positive range in ascending order)
1047 or a mixture
1048 <cpu number>,...,<cpu number>-<cpu number>
1049
1050 This option can be used to specify one or more CPUs
1051 to isolate from the general SMP balancing and scheduling
1052 algorithms. You can move a process onto or off an
1053 "isolated" CPU via the CPU affinity syscalls or cpuset.
1054 <cpu number> begins at 0 and the maximum value is
1055 "number of CPUs in system - 1".
1056
1057 This option is the preferred way to isolate CPUs. The
1058 alternative -- manually setting the CPU mask of all
1059 tasks in the system -- can cause problems and
1060 suboptimal load balancer performance.
1061
1062 iucv= [HW,NET]
1063
1064 js= [HW,JOY] Analog joystick
1065 See Documentation/input/joystick.txt.
1066
1067 keepinitrd [HW,ARM]
1068
1069 kernelcore=nn[KMG] [KNL,X86,IA-64,PPC] This parameter
1070 specifies the amount of memory usable by the kernel
1071 for non-movable allocations. The requested amount is
1072 spread evenly throughout all nodes in the system. The
1073 remaining memory in each node is used for Movable
1074 pages. In the event, a node is too small to have both
1075 kernelcore and Movable pages, kernelcore pages will
1076 take priority and other nodes will have a larger number
1077 of kernelcore pages. The Movable zone is used for the
1078 allocation of pages that may be reclaimed or moved
1079 by the page migration subsystem. This means that
1080 HugeTLB pages may not be allocated from this zone.
1081 Note that allocations like PTEs-from-HighMem still
1082 use the HighMem zone if it exists, and the Normal
1083 zone if it does not.
1084
1085 kgdboc= [HW] kgdb over consoles.
1086 Requires a tty driver that supports console polling.
1087 (only serial supported for now)
1088 Format: <serial_device>[,baud]
1089
1090 kmac= [MIPS] korina ethernet MAC address.
1091 Configure the RouterBoard 532 series on-chip
1092 Ethernet adapter MAC address.
1093
1094 kmemleak= [KNL] Boot-time kmemleak enable/disable
1095 Valid arguments: on, off
1096 Default: on
1097
1098 kstack=N [X86] Print N words from the kernel stack
1099 in oops dumps.
1100
1101 l2cr= [PPC]
1102
1103 l3cr= [PPC]
1104
1105 lapic [X86-32,APIC] Enable the local APIC even if BIOS
1106 disabled it.
1107
1108 lapic_timer_c2_ok [X86,APIC] trust the local apic timer
1109 in C2 power state.
1110
1111 libata.dma= [LIBATA] DMA control
1112 libata.dma=0 Disable all PATA and SATA DMA
1113 libata.dma=1 PATA and SATA Disk DMA only
1114 libata.dma=2 ATAPI (CDROM) DMA only
1115 libata.dma=4 Compact Flash DMA only
1116 Combinations also work, so libata.dma=3 enables DMA
1117 for disks and CDROMs, but not CFs.
1118
1119 libata.noacpi [LIBATA] Disables use of ACPI in libata suspend/resume
1120 when set.
1121 Format: <int>
1122
1123 libata.force= [LIBATA] Force configurations. The format is comma
1124 separated list of "[ID:]VAL" where ID is
1125 PORT[:DEVICE]. PORT and DEVICE are decimal numbers
1126 matching port, link or device. Basically, it matches
1127 the ATA ID string printed on console by libata. If
1128 the whole ID part is omitted, the last PORT and DEVICE
1129 values are used. If ID hasn't been specified yet, the
1130 configuration applies to all ports, links and devices.
1131
1132 If only DEVICE is omitted, the parameter applies to
1133 the port and all links and devices behind it. DEVICE
1134 number of 0 either selects the first device or the
1135 first fan-out link behind PMP device. It does not
1136 select the host link. DEVICE number of 15 selects the
1137 host link and device attached to it.
1138
1139 The VAL specifies the configuration to force. As long
1140 as there's no ambiguity shortcut notation is allowed.
1141 For example, both 1.5 and 1.5G would work for 1.5Gbps.
1142 The following configurations can be forced.
1143
1144 * Cable type: 40c, 80c, short40c, unk, ign or sata.
1145 Any ID with matching PORT is used.
1146
1147 * SATA link speed limit: 1.5Gbps or 3.0Gbps.
1148
1149 * Transfer mode: pio[0-7], mwdma[0-4] and udma[0-7].
1150 udma[/][16,25,33,44,66,100,133] notation is also
1151 allowed.
1152
1153 * [no]ncq: Turn on or off NCQ.
1154
1155 * nohrst, nosrst, norst: suppress hard, soft
1156 and both resets.
1157
1158 If there are multiple matching configurations changing
1159 the same attribute, the last one is used.
1160
1161 lmb=debug [KNL] Enable lmb debug messages.
1162
1163 load_ramdisk= [RAM] List of ramdisks to load from floppy
1164 See Documentation/blockdev/ramdisk.txt.
1165
1166 lockd.nlm_grace_period=P [NFS] Assign grace period.
1167 Format: <integer>
1168
1169 lockd.nlm_tcpport=N [NFS] Assign TCP port.
1170 Format: <integer>
1171
1172 lockd.nlm_timeout=T [NFS] Assign timeout value.
1173 Format: <integer>
1174
1175 lockd.nlm_udpport=M [NFS] Assign UDP port.
1176 Format: <integer>
1177
1178 logibm.irq= [HW,MOUSE] Logitech Bus Mouse Driver
1179 Format: <irq>
1180
1181 loglevel= All Kernel Messages with a loglevel smaller than the
1182 console loglevel will be printed to the console. It can
1183 also be changed with klogd or other programs. The
1184 loglevels are defined as follows:
1185
1186 0 (KERN_EMERG) system is unusable
1187 1 (KERN_ALERT) action must be taken immediately
1188 2 (KERN_CRIT) critical conditions
1189 3 (KERN_ERR) error conditions
1190 4 (KERN_WARNING) warning conditions
1191 5 (KERN_NOTICE) normal but significant condition
1192 6 (KERN_INFO) informational
1193 7 (KERN_DEBUG) debug-level messages
1194
1195 log_buf_len=n Sets the size of the printk ring buffer, in bytes.
1196 Format: { n | nk | nM }
1197 n must be a power of two. The default size
1198 is set in the kernel config file.
1199
1200 logo.nologo [FB] Disables display of the built-in Linux logo.
1201 This may be used to provide more screen space for
1202 kernel log messages and is useful when debugging
1203 kernel boot problems.
1204
1205 lp=0 [LP] Specify parallel ports to use, e.g,
1206 lp=port[,port...] lp=none,parport0 (lp0 not configured, lp1 uses
1207 lp=reset first parallel port). 'lp=0' disables the
1208 lp=auto printer driver. 'lp=reset' (which can be
1209 specified in addition to the ports) causes
1210 attached printers to be reset. Using
1211 lp=port1,port2,... specifies the parallel ports
1212 to associate lp devices with, starting with
1213 lp0. A port specification may be 'none' to skip
1214 that lp device, or a parport name such as
1215 'parport0'. Specifying 'lp=auto' instead of a
1216 port specification list means that device IDs
1217 from each port should be examined, to see if
1218 an IEEE 1284-compliant printer is attached; if
1219 so, the driver will manage that printer.
1220 See also header of drivers/char/lp.c.
1221
1222 lpj=n [KNL]
1223 Sets loops_per_jiffy to given constant, thus avoiding
1224 time-consuming boot-time autodetection (up to 250 ms per
1225 CPU). 0 enables autodetection (default). To determine
1226 the correct value for your kernel, boot with normal
1227 autodetection and see what value is printed. Note that
1228 on SMP systems the preset will be applied to all CPUs,
1229 which is likely to cause problems if your CPUs need
1230 significantly divergent settings. An incorrect value
1231 will cause delays in the kernel to be wrong, leading to
1232 unpredictable I/O errors and other breakage. Although
1233 unlikely, in the extreme case this might damage your
1234 hardware.
1235
1236 ltpc= [NET]
1237 Format: <io>,<irq>,<dma>
1238
1239 mac5380= [HW,SCSI] Format:
1240 <can_queue>,<cmd_per_lun>,<sg_tablesize>,<hostid>,<use_tags>
1241
1242 machvec= [IA64] Force the use of a particular machine-vector
1243 (machvec) in a generic kernel.
1244 Example: machvec=hpzx1_swiotlb
1245
1246 max_addr=nn[KMG] [KNL,BOOT,ia64] All physical memory greater
1247 than or equal to this physical address is ignored.
1248
1249 maxcpus= [SMP] Maximum number of processors that an SMP kernel
1250 should make use of. maxcpus=n : n >= 0 limits the
1251 kernel to using 'n' processors. n=0 is a special case,
1252 it is equivalent to "nosmp", which also disables
1253 the IO APIC.
1254
1255 max_loop= [LOOP] Maximum number of loopback devices that can
1256 be mounted
1257 Format: <1-256>
1258
1259 max_luns= [SCSI] Maximum number of LUNs to probe.
1260 Should be between 1 and 2^32-1.
1261
1262 max_report_luns=
1263 [SCSI] Maximum number of LUNs received.
1264 Should be between 1 and 16384.
1265
1266 mcatest= [IA-64]
1267
1268 mce [X86-32] Machine Check Exception
1269
1270 mce=option [X86-64] See Documentation/x86/x86_64/boot-options.txt
1271
1272 md= [HW] RAID subsystems devices and level
1273 See Documentation/md.txt.
1274
1275 mdacon= [MDA]
1276 Format: <first>,<last>
1277 Specifies range of consoles to be captured by the MDA.
1278
1279 mem=nn[KMG] [KNL,BOOT] Force usage of a specific amount of memory
1280 Amount of memory to be used when the kernel is not able
1281 to see the whole system memory or for test.
1282 [X86-32] Use together with memmap= to avoid physical
1283 address space collisions. Without memmap= PCI devices
1284 could be placed at addresses belonging to unused RAM.
1285
1286 mem=nopentium [BUGS=X86-32] Disable usage of 4MB pages for kernel
1287 memory.
1288
1289 memchunk=nn[KMG]
1290 [KNL,SH] Allow user to override the default size for
1291 per-device physically contiguous DMA buffers.
1292
1293 memmap=exactmap [KNL,X86] Enable setting of an exact
1294 E820 memory map, as specified by the user.
1295 Such memmap=exactmap lines can be constructed based on
1296 BIOS output or other requirements. See the memmap=nn@ss
1297 option description.
1298
1299 memmap=nn[KMG]@ss[KMG]
1300 [KNL] Force usage of a specific region of memory
1301 Region of memory to be used, from ss to ss+nn.
1302
1303 memmap=nn[KMG]#ss[KMG]
1304 [KNL,ACPI] Mark specific memory as ACPI data.
1305 Region of memory to be used, from ss to ss+nn.
1306
1307 memmap=nn[KMG]$ss[KMG]
1308 [KNL,ACPI] Mark specific memory as reserved.
1309 Region of memory to be used, from ss to ss+nn.
1310 Example: Exclude memory from 0x18690000-0x1869ffff
1311 memmap=64K$0x18690000
1312 or
1313 memmap=0x10000$0x18690000
1314
1315 memory_corruption_check=0/1 [X86]
1316 Some BIOSes seem to corrupt the first 64k of
1317 memory when doing things like suspend/resume.
1318 Setting this option will scan the memory
1319 looking for corruption. Enabling this will
1320 both detect corruption and prevent the kernel
1321 from using the memory being corrupted.
1322 However, its intended as a diagnostic tool; if
1323 repeatable BIOS-originated corruption always
1324 affects the same memory, you can use memmap=
1325 to prevent the kernel from using that memory.
1326
1327 memory_corruption_check_size=size [X86]
1328 By default it checks for corruption in the low
1329 64k, making this memory unavailable for normal
1330 use. Use this parameter to scan for
1331 corruption in more or less memory.
1332
1333 memory_corruption_check_period=seconds [X86]
1334 By default it checks for corruption every 60
1335 seconds. Use this parameter to check at some
1336 other rate. 0 disables periodic checking.
1337
1338 memtest= [KNL,X86] Enable memtest
1339 Format: <integer>
1340 default : 0 <disable>
1341 Specifies the number of memtest passes to be
1342 performed. Each pass selects another test
1343 pattern from a given set of patterns. Memtest
1344 fills the memory with this pattern, validates
1345 memory contents and reserves bad memory
1346 regions that are detected.
1347
1348 meye.*= [HW] Set MotionEye Camera parameters
1349 See Documentation/video4linux/meye.txt.
1350
1351 mfgpt_irq= [IA-32] Specify the IRQ to use for the
1352 Multi-Function General Purpose Timers on AMD Geode
1353 platforms.
1354
1355 mfgptfix [X86-32] Fix MFGPT timers on AMD Geode platforms when
1356 the BIOS has incorrectly applied a workaround. TinyBIOS
1357 version 0.98 is known to be affected, 0.99 fixes the
1358 problem by letting the user disable the workaround.
1359
1360 mga= [HW,DRM]
1361
1362 min_addr=nn[KMG] [KNL,BOOT,ia64] All physical memory below this
1363 physical address is ignored.
1364
1365 mini2440= [ARM,HW,KNL]
1366 Format:[0..2][b][c][t]
1367 Default: "0tb"
1368 MINI2440 configuration specification:
1369 0 - The attached screen is the 3.5" TFT
1370 1 - The attached screen is the 7" TFT
1371 2 - The VGA Shield is attached (1024x768)
1372 Leaving out the screen size parameter will not load
1373 the TFT driver, and the framebuffer will be left
1374 unconfigured.
1375 b - Enable backlight. The TFT backlight pin will be
1376 linked to the kernel VESA blanking code and a GPIO
1377 LED. This parameter is not necessary when using the
1378 VGA shield.
1379 c - Enable the s3c camera interface.
1380 t - Reserved for enabling touchscreen support. The
1381 touchscreen support is not enabled in the mainstream
1382 kernel as of 2.6.30, a preliminary port can be found
1383 in the "bleeding edge" mini2440 support kernel at
1384 http://repo.or.cz/w/linux-2.6/mini2440.git
1385
1386 mminit_loglevel=
1387 [KNL] When CONFIG_DEBUG_MEMORY_INIT is set, this
1388 parameter allows control of the logging verbosity for
1389 the additional memory initialisation checks. A value
1390 of 0 disables mminit logging and a level of 4 will
1391 log everything. Information is printed at KERN_DEBUG
1392 so loglevel=8 may also need to be specified.
1393
1394 mousedev.tap_time=
1395 [MOUSE] Maximum time between finger touching and
1396 leaving touchpad surface for touch to be considered
1397 a tap and be reported as a left button click (for
1398 touchpads working in absolute mode only).
1399 Format: <msecs>
1400 mousedev.xres= [MOUSE] Horizontal screen resolution, used for devices
1401 reporting absolute coordinates, such as tablets
1402 mousedev.yres= [MOUSE] Vertical screen resolution, used for devices
1403 reporting absolute coordinates, such as tablets
1404
1405 movablecore=nn[KMG] [KNL,X86,IA-64,PPC] This parameter
1406 is similar to kernelcore except it specifies the
1407 amount of memory used for migratable allocations.
1408 If both kernelcore and movablecore is specified,
1409 then kernelcore will be at *least* the specified
1410 value but may be more. If movablecore on its own
1411 is specified, the administrator must be careful
1412 that the amount of memory usable for all allocations
1413 is not too small.
1414
1415 mpu401= [HW,OSS]
1416 Format: <io>,<irq>
1417
1418 MTD_Partition= [MTD]
1419 Format: <name>,<region-number>,<size>,<offset>
1420
1421 MTD_Region= [MTD] Format:
1422 <name>,<region-number>[,<base>,<size>,<buswidth>,<altbuswidth>]
1423
1424 mtdparts= [MTD]
1425 See drivers/mtd/cmdlinepart.c.
1426
1427 onenand.bdry= [HW,MTD] Flex-OneNAND Boundary Configuration
1428
1429 Format: [die0_boundary][,die0_lock][,die1_boundary][,die1_lock]
1430
1431 boundary - index of last SLC block on Flex-OneNAND.
1432 The remaining blocks are configured as MLC blocks.
1433 lock - Configure if Flex-OneNAND boundary should be locked.
1434 Once locked, the boundary cannot be changed.
1435 1 indicates lock status, 0 indicates unlock status.
1436
1437 mtdset= [ARM]
1438 ARM/S3C2412 JIVE boot control
1439
1440 See arch/arm/mach-s3c2412/mach-jive.c
1441
1442 mtouchusb.raw_coordinates=
1443 [HW] Make the MicroTouch USB driver use raw coordinates
1444 ('y', default) or cooked coordinates ('n')
1445
1446 mtrr_chunk_size=nn[KMG] [X86]
1447 used for mtrr cleanup. It is largest continuous chunk
1448 that could hold holes aka. UC entries.
1449
1450 mtrr_gran_size=nn[KMG] [X86]
1451 Used for mtrr cleanup. It is granularity of mtrr block.
1452 Default is 1.
1453 Large value could prevent small alignment from
1454 using up MTRRs.
1455
1456 mtrr_spare_reg_nr=n [X86]
1457 Format: <integer>
1458 Range: 0,7 : spare reg number
1459 Default : 1
1460 Used for mtrr cleanup. It is spare mtrr entries number.
1461 Set to 2 or more if your graphical card needs more.
1462
1463 n2= [NET] SDL Inc. RISCom/N2 synchronous serial card
1464
1465 NCR_D700= [HW,SCSI]
1466 See header of drivers/scsi/NCR_D700.c.
1467
1468 ncr5380= [HW,SCSI]
1469
1470 ncr53c400= [HW,SCSI]
1471
1472 ncr53c400a= [HW,SCSI]
1473
1474 ncr53c406a= [HW,SCSI]
1475
1476 ncr53c8xx= [HW,SCSI]
1477
1478 netdev= [NET] Network devices parameters
1479 Format: <irq>,<io>,<mem_start>,<mem_end>,<name>
1480 Note that mem_start is often overloaded to mean
1481 something different and driver-specific.
1482 This usage is only documented in each driver source
1483 file if at all.
1484
1485 nf_conntrack.acct=
1486 [NETFILTER] Enable connection tracking flow accounting
1487 0 to disable accounting
1488 1 to enable accounting
1489 Default value depends on CONFIG_NF_CT_ACCT that is
1490 going to be removed in 2.6.29.
1491
1492 nfsaddrs= [NFS]
1493 See Documentation/filesystems/nfsroot.txt.
1494
1495 nfsroot= [NFS] nfs root filesystem for disk-less boxes.
1496 See Documentation/filesystems/nfsroot.txt.
1497
1498 nfs.callback_tcpport=
1499 [NFS] set the TCP port on which the NFSv4 callback
1500 channel should listen.
1501
1502 nfs.idmap_cache_timeout=
1503 [NFS] set the maximum lifetime for idmapper cache
1504 entries.
1505
1506 nfs.enable_ino64=
1507 [NFS] enable 64-bit inode numbers.
1508 If zero, the NFS client will fake up a 32-bit inode
1509 number for the readdir() and stat() syscalls instead
1510 of returning the full 64-bit number.
1511 The default is to return 64-bit inode numbers.
1512
1513 nmi_debug= [KNL,AVR32] Specify one or more actions to take
1514 when a NMI is triggered.
1515 Format: [state][,regs][,debounce][,die]
1516
1517 nmi_watchdog= [KNL,BUGS=X86] Debugging features for SMP kernels
1518 Format: [panic,][num]
1519 Valid num: 0,1,2
1520 0 - turn nmi_watchdog off
1521 1 - use the IO-APIC timer for the NMI watchdog
1522 2 - use the local APIC for the NMI watchdog using
1523 a performance counter. Note: This will use one
1524 performance counter and the local APIC's performance
1525 vector.
1526 When panic is specified, panic when an NMI watchdog
1527 timeout occurs.
1528 This is useful when you use a panic=... timeout and
1529 need the box quickly up again.
1530 Instead of 1 and 2 it is possible to use the following
1531 symbolic names: lapic and ioapic
1532 Example: nmi_watchdog=2 or nmi_watchdog=panic,lapic
1533
1534 no387 [BUGS=X86-32] Tells the kernel to use the 387 maths
1535 emulation library even if a 387 maths coprocessor
1536 is present.
1537
1538 no_console_suspend
1539 [HW] Never suspend the console
1540 Disable suspending of consoles during suspend and
1541 hibernate operations. Once disabled, debugging
1542 messages can reach various consoles while the rest
1543 of the system is being put to sleep (ie, while
1544 debugging driver suspend/resume hooks). This may
1545 not work reliably with all consoles, but is known
1546 to work with serial and VGA consoles.
1547
1548 noaliencache [MM, NUMA, SLAB] Disables the allocation of alien
1549 caches in the slab allocator. Saves per-node memory,
1550 but will impact performance.
1551
1552 noalign [KNL,ARM]
1553
1554 noapic [SMP,APIC] Tells the kernel to not make use of any
1555 IOAPICs that may be present in the system.
1556
1557 nobats [PPC] Do not use BATs for mapping kernel lowmem
1558 on "Classic" PPC cores.
1559
1560 nocache [ARM]
1561
1562 noclflush [BUGS=X86] Don't use the CLFLUSH instruction
1563
1564 nodelayacct [KNL] Disable per-task delay accounting
1565
1566 nodisconnect [HW,SCSI,M68K] Disables SCSI disconnects.
1567
1568 nodsp [SH] Disable hardware DSP at boot time.
1569
1570 noefi [X86] Disable EFI runtime services support.
1571
1572 noexec [IA-64]
1573
1574 noexec [X86]
1575 On X86-32 available only on PAE configured kernels.
1576 noexec=on: enable non-executable mappings (default)
1577 noexec=off: disable non-executable mappings
1578
1579 noexec32 [X86-64]
1580 This affects only 32-bit executables.
1581 noexec32=on: enable non-executable mappings (default)
1582 read doesn't imply executable mappings
1583 noexec32=off: disable non-executable mappings
1584 read implies executable mappings
1585
1586 nofpu [SH] Disable hardware FPU at boot time.
1587
1588 nofxsr [BUGS=X86-32] Disables x86 floating point extended
1589 register save and restore. The kernel will only save
1590 legacy floating-point registers on task switch.
1591
1592 noxsave [BUGS=X86] Disables x86 extended register state save
1593 and restore using xsave. The kernel will fallback to
1594 enabling legacy floating-point and sse state.
1595
1596 nohlt [BUGS=ARM,SH] Tells the kernel that the sleep(SH) or
1597 wfi(ARM) instruction doesn't work correctly and not to
1598 use it. This is also useful when using JTAG debugger.
1599
1600 no-hlt [BUGS=X86-32] Tells the kernel that the hlt
1601 instruction doesn't work correctly and not to
1602 use it.
1603
1604 no_file_caps Tells the kernel not to honor file capabilities. The
1605 only way then for a file to be executed with privilege
1606 is to be setuid root or executed by root.
1607
1608 nohalt [IA-64] Tells the kernel not to use the power saving
1609 function PAL_HALT_LIGHT when idle. This increases
1610 power-consumption. On the positive side, it reduces
1611 interrupt wake-up latency, which may improve performance
1612 in certain environments such as networked servers or
1613 real-time systems.
1614
1615 nohz= [KNL] Boottime enable/disable dynamic ticks
1616 Valid arguments: on, off
1617 Default: on
1618
1619 noiotrap [SH] Disables trapped I/O port accesses.
1620
1621 noirqdebug [X86-32] Disables the code which attempts to detect and
1622 disable unhandled interrupt sources.
1623
1624 no_timer_check [X86,APIC] Disables the code which tests for
1625 broken timer IRQ sources.
1626
1627 noisapnp [ISAPNP] Disables ISA PnP code.
1628
1629 noinitrd [RAM] Tells the kernel not to load any configured
1630 initial RAM disk.
1631
1632 nointremap [X86-64, Intel-IOMMU] Do not enable interrupt
1633 remapping.
1634
1635 nointroute [IA-64]
1636
1637 nojitter [IA64] Disables jitter checking for ITC timers.
1638
1639 nolapic [X86-32,APIC] Do not enable or use the local APIC.
1640
1641 nolapic_timer [X86-32,APIC] Do not use the local APIC timer.
1642
1643 noltlbs [PPC] Do not use large page/tlb entries for kernel
1644 lowmem mapping on PPC40x.
1645
1646 nomca [IA-64] Disable machine check abort handling
1647
1648 nomce [X86-32] Machine Check Exception
1649
1650 nomfgpt [X86-32] Disable Multi-Function General Purpose
1651 Timer usage (for AMD Geode machines).
1652
1653 norandmaps Don't use address space randomization. Equivalent to
1654 echo 0 > /proc/sys/kernel/randomize_va_space
1655
1656 noreplace-paravirt [X86-32,PV_OPS] Don't patch paravirt_ops
1657
1658 noreplace-smp [X86-32,SMP] Don't replace SMP instructions
1659 with UP alternatives
1660
1661 noresidual [PPC] Don't use residual data on PReP machines.
1662
1663 noresume [SWSUSP] Disables resume and restores original swap
1664 space.
1665
1666 no-scroll [VGA] Disables scrollback.
1667 This is required for the Braillex ib80-piezo Braille
1668 reader made by F.H. Papenmeier (Germany).
1669
1670 nosbagart [IA-64]
1671
1672 nosep [BUGS=X86-32] Disables x86 SYSENTER/SYSEXIT support.
1673
1674 nosmp [SMP] Tells an SMP kernel to act as a UP kernel,
1675 and disable the IO APIC. legacy for "maxcpus=0".
1676
1677 nosoftlockup [KNL] Disable the soft-lockup detector.
1678
1679 noswapaccount [KNL] Disable accounting of swap in memory resource
1680 controller. (See Documentation/cgroups/memory.txt)
1681
1682 nosync [HW,M68K] Disables sync negotiation for all devices.
1683
1684 notsc [BUGS=X86-32] Disable Time Stamp Counter
1685
1686 nousb [USB] Disable the USB subsystem
1687
1688 nowb [ARM]
1689
1690 nox2apic [X86-64,APIC] Do not enable x2APIC mode.
1691
1692 nptcg= [IA64] Override max number of concurrent global TLB
1693 purges which is reported from either PAL_VM_SUMMARY or
1694 SAL PALO.
1695
1696 nr_uarts= [SERIAL] maximum number of UARTs to be registered.
1697
1698 numa_zonelist_order= [KNL, BOOT] Select zonelist order for NUMA.
1699 one of ['zone', 'node', 'default'] can be specified
1700 This can be set from sysctl after boot.
1701 See Documentation/sysctl/vm.txt for details.
1702
1703 ohci1394_dma=early [HW] enable debugging via the ohci1394 driver.
1704 See Documentation/debugging-via-ohci1394.txt for more
1705 info.
1706
1707 olpc_ec_timeout= [OLPC] ms delay when issuing EC commands
1708 Rather than timing out after 20 ms if an EC
1709 command is not properly ACKed, override the length
1710 of the timeout. We have interrupts disabled while
1711 waiting for the ACK, so if this is set too high
1712 interrupts *may* be lost!
1713
1714 opl3= [HW,OSS]
1715 Format: <io>
1716
1717 oprofile.timer= [HW]
1718 Use timer interrupt instead of performance counters
1719
1720 oprofile.cpu_type= Force an oprofile cpu type
1721 This might be useful if you have an older oprofile
1722 userland or if you want common events.
1723 Format: { archperfmon }
1724 archperfmon: [X86] Force use of architectural
1725 perfmon on Intel CPUs instead of the
1726 CPU specific event set.
1727
1728 osst= [HW,SCSI] SCSI Tape Driver
1729 Format: <buffer_size>,<write_threshold>
1730 See also Documentation/scsi/st.txt.
1731
1732 panic= [KNL] Kernel behaviour on panic
1733 Format: <timeout>
1734
1735 parkbd.port= [HW] Parallel port number the keyboard adapter is
1736 connected to, default is 0.
1737 Format: <parport#>
1738 parkbd.mode= [HW] Parallel port keyboard adapter mode of operation,
1739 0 for XT, 1 for AT (default is AT).
1740 Format: <mode>
1741
1742 parport= [HW,PPT] Specify parallel ports. 0 disables.
1743 Format: { 0 | auto | 0xBBB[,IRQ[,DMA]] }
1744 Use 'auto' to force the driver to use any
1745 IRQ/DMA settings detected (the default is to
1746 ignore detected IRQ/DMA settings because of
1747 possible conflicts). You can specify the base
1748 address, IRQ, and DMA settings; IRQ and DMA
1749 should be numbers, or 'auto' (for using detected
1750 settings on that particular port), or 'nofifo'
1751 (to avoid using a FIFO even if it is detected).
1752 Parallel ports are assigned in the order they
1753 are specified on the command line, starting
1754 with parport0.
1755
1756 parport_init_mode= [HW,PPT]
1757 Configure VIA parallel port to operate in
1758 a specific mode. This is necessary on Pegasos
1759 computer where firmware has no options for setting
1760 up parallel port mode and sets it to spp.
1761 Currently this function knows 686a and 8231 chips.
1762 Format: [spp|ps2|epp|ecp|ecpepp]
1763
1764 pas2= [HW,OSS] Format:
1765 <io>,<irq>,<dma>,<dma16>,<sb_io>,<sb_irq>,<sb_dma>,<sb_dma16>
1766
1767 pas16= [HW,SCSI]
1768 See header of drivers/scsi/pas16.c.
1769
1770 pause_on_oops=
1771 Halt all CPUs after the first oops has been printed for
1772 the specified number of seconds. This is to be used if
1773 your oopses keep scrolling off the screen.
1774
1775 pcbit= [HW,ISDN]
1776
1777 pcd. [PARIDE]
1778 See header of drivers/block/paride/pcd.c.
1779 See also Documentation/blockdev/paride.txt.
1780
1781 pci=option[,option...] [PCI] various PCI subsystem options:
1782 earlydump [X86] dump PCI config space before the kernel
1783 changes anything
1784 off [X86] don't probe for the PCI bus
1785 bios [X86-32] force use of PCI BIOS, don't access
1786 the hardware directly. Use this if your machine
1787 has a non-standard PCI host bridge.
1788 nobios [X86-32] disallow use of PCI BIOS, only direct
1789 hardware access methods are allowed. Use this
1790 if you experience crashes upon bootup and you
1791 suspect they are caused by the BIOS.
1792 conf1 [X86] Force use of PCI Configuration
1793 Mechanism 1.
1794 conf2 [X86] Force use of PCI Configuration
1795 Mechanism 2.
1796 noaer [PCIE] If the PCIEAER kernel config parameter is
1797 enabled, this kernel boot option can be used to
1798 disable the use of PCIE advanced error reporting.
1799 nodomains [PCI] Disable support for multiple PCI
1800 root domains (aka PCI segments, in ACPI-speak).
1801 nommconf [X86] Disable use of MMCONFIG for PCI
1802 Configuration
1803 check_enable_amd_mmconf [X86] check for and enable
1804 properly configured MMIO access to PCI
1805 config space on AMD family 10h CPU
1806 nomsi [MSI] If the PCI_MSI kernel config parameter is
1807 enabled, this kernel boot option can be used to
1808 disable the use of MSI interrupts system-wide.
1809 noioapicquirk [APIC] Disable all boot interrupt quirks.
1810 Safety option to keep boot IRQs enabled. This
1811 should never be necessary.
1812 ioapicreroute [APIC] Enable rerouting of boot IRQs to the
1813 primary IO-APIC for bridges that cannot disable
1814 boot IRQs. This fixes a source of spurious IRQs
1815 when the system masks IRQs.
1816 noioapicreroute [APIC] Disable workaround that uses the
1817 boot IRQ equivalent of an IRQ that connects to
1818 a chipset where boot IRQs cannot be disabled.
1819 The opposite of ioapicreroute.
1820 biosirq [X86-32] Use PCI BIOS calls to get the interrupt
1821 routing table. These calls are known to be buggy
1822 on several machines and they hang the machine
1823 when used, but on other computers it's the only
1824 way to get the interrupt routing table. Try
1825 this option if the kernel is unable to allocate
1826 IRQs or discover secondary PCI buses on your
1827 motherboard.
1828 rom [X86] Assign address space to expansion ROMs.
1829 Use with caution as certain devices share
1830 address decoders between ROMs and other
1831 resources.
1832 norom [X86] Do not assign address space to
1833 expansion ROMs that do not already have
1834 BIOS assigned address ranges.
1835 irqmask=0xMMMM [X86] Set a bit mask of IRQs allowed to be
1836 assigned automatically to PCI devices. You can
1837 make the kernel exclude IRQs of your ISA cards
1838 this way.
1839 pirqaddr=0xAAAAA [X86] Specify the physical address
1840 of the PIRQ table (normally generated
1841 by the BIOS) if it is outside the
1842 F0000h-100000h range.
1843 lastbus=N [X86] Scan all buses thru bus #N. Can be
1844 useful if the kernel is unable to find your
1845 secondary buses and you want to tell it
1846 explicitly which ones they are.
1847 assign-busses [X86] Always assign all PCI bus
1848 numbers ourselves, overriding
1849 whatever the firmware may have done.
1850 usepirqmask [X86] Honor the possible IRQ mask stored
1851 in the BIOS $PIR table. This is needed on
1852 some systems with broken BIOSes, notably
1853 some HP Pavilion N5400 and Omnibook XE3
1854 notebooks. This will have no effect if ACPI
1855 IRQ routing is enabled.
1856 noacpi [X86] Do not use ACPI for IRQ routing
1857 or for PCI scanning.
1858 use_crs [X86] Use _CRS for PCI resource
1859 allocation.
1860 routeirq Do IRQ routing for all PCI devices.
1861 This is normally done in pci_enable_device(),
1862 so this option is a temporary workaround
1863 for broken drivers that don't call it.
1864 skip_isa_align [X86] do not align io start addr, so can
1865 handle more pci cards
1866 firmware [ARM] Do not re-enumerate the bus but instead
1867 just use the configuration from the
1868 bootloader. This is currently used on
1869 IXP2000 systems where the bus has to be
1870 configured a certain way for adjunct CPUs.
1871 noearly [X86] Don't do any early type 1 scanning.
1872 This might help on some broken boards which
1873 machine check when some devices' config space
1874 is read. But various workarounds are disabled
1875 and some IOMMU drivers will not work.
1876 bfsort Sort PCI devices into breadth-first order.
1877 This sorting is done to get a device
1878 order compatible with older (<= 2.4) kernels.
1879 nobfsort Don't sort PCI devices into breadth-first order.
1880 cbiosize=nn[KMG] The fixed amount of bus space which is
1881 reserved for the CardBus bridge's IO window.
1882 The default value is 256 bytes.
1883 cbmemsize=nn[KMG] The fixed amount of bus space which is
1884 reserved for the CardBus bridge's memory
1885 window. The default value is 64 megabytes.
1886 resource_alignment=
1887 Format:
1888 [<order of align>@][<domain>:]<bus>:<slot>.<func>[; ...]
1889 Specifies alignment and device to reassign
1890 aligned memory resources.
1891 If <order of align> is not specified,
1892 PAGE_SIZE is used as alignment.
1893 PCI-PCI bridge can be specified, if resource
1894 windows need to be expanded.
1895 ecrc= Enable/disable PCIe ECRC (transaction layer
1896 end-to-end CRC checking).
1897 bios: Use BIOS/firmware settings. This is the
1898 the default.
1899 off: Turn ECRC off
1900 on: Turn ECRC on.
1901
1902 pcie_aspm= [PCIE] Forcibly enable or disable PCIe Active State Power
1903 Management.
1904 off Disable ASPM.
1905 force Enable ASPM even on devices that claim not to support it.
1906 WARNING: Forcing ASPM on may cause system lockups.
1907
1908 pcmv= [HW,PCMCIA] BadgePAD 4
1909
1910 pd. [PARIDE]
1911 See Documentation/blockdev/paride.txt.
1912
1913 pdcchassis= [PARISC,HW] Disable/Enable PDC Chassis Status codes at
1914 boot time.
1915 Format: { 0 | 1 }
1916 See arch/parisc/kernel/pdc_chassis.c
1917
1918 pf. [PARIDE]
1919 See Documentation/blockdev/paride.txt.
1920
1921 pg. [PARIDE]
1922 See Documentation/blockdev/paride.txt.
1923
1924 pirq= [SMP,APIC] Manual mp-table setup
1925 See Documentation/x86/i386/IO-APIC.txt.
1926
1927 plip= [PPT,NET] Parallel port network link
1928 Format: { parport<nr> | timid | 0 }
1929 See also Documentation/parport.txt.
1930
1931 pmtmr= [X86] Manual setup of pmtmr I/O Port.
1932 Override pmtimer IOPort with a hex value.
1933 e.g. pmtmr=0x508
1934
1935 pnp.debug [PNP]
1936 Enable PNP debug messages. This depends on the
1937 CONFIG_PNP_DEBUG_MESSAGES option.
1938
1939 pnpacpi= [ACPI]
1940 { off }
1941
1942 pnpbios= [ISAPNP]
1943 { on | off | curr | res | no-curr | no-res }
1944
1945 pnp_reserve_irq=
1946 [ISAPNP] Exclude IRQs for the autoconfiguration
1947
1948 pnp_reserve_dma=
1949 [ISAPNP] Exclude DMAs for the autoconfiguration
1950
1951 pnp_reserve_io= [ISAPNP] Exclude I/O ports for the autoconfiguration
1952 Ranges are in pairs (I/O port base and size).
1953
1954 pnp_reserve_mem=
1955 [ISAPNP] Exclude memory regions for the
1956 autoconfiguration.
1957 Ranges are in pairs (memory base and size).
1958
1959 ports= [IP_VS_FTP] IPVS ftp helper module
1960 Default is 21.
1961 Up to 8 (IP_VS_APP_MAX_PORTS) ports
1962 may be specified.
1963 Format: <port>,<port>....
1964
1965 print-fatal-signals=
1966 [KNL] debug: print fatal signals
1967 print-fatal-signals=1: print segfault info to
1968 the kernel console.
1969 default: off.
1970
1971 printk.time= Show timing data prefixed to each printk message line
1972 Format: <bool> (1/Y/y=enable, 0/N/n=disable)
1973
1974 processor.max_cstate= [HW,ACPI]
1975 Limit processor to maximum C-state
1976 max_cstate=9 overrides any DMI blacklist limit.
1977
1978 processor.nocst [HW,ACPI]
1979 Ignore the _CST method to determine C-states,
1980 instead using the legacy FADT method
1981
1982 profile= [KNL] Enable kernel profiling via /proc/profile
1983 Format: [schedule,]<number>
1984 Param: "schedule" - profile schedule points.
1985 Param: <number> - step/bucket size as a power of 2 for
1986 statistical time based profiling.
1987 Param: "sleep" - profile D-state sleeping (millisecs).
1988 Requires CONFIG_SCHEDSTATS
1989 Param: "kvm" - profile VM exits.
1990
1991 prompt_ramdisk= [RAM] List of RAM disks to prompt for floppy disk
1992 before loading.
1993 See Documentation/blockdev/ramdisk.txt.
1994
1995 psmouse.proto= [HW,MOUSE] Highest PS2 mouse protocol extension to
1996 probe for; one of (bare|imps|exps|lifebook|any).
1997 psmouse.rate= [HW,MOUSE] Set desired mouse report rate, in reports
1998 per second.
1999 psmouse.resetafter= [HW,MOUSE]
2000 Try to reset the device after so many bad packets
2001 (0 = never).
2002 psmouse.resolution=
2003 [HW,MOUSE] Set desired mouse resolution, in dpi.
2004 psmouse.smartscroll=
2005 [HW,MOUSE] Controls Logitech smartscroll autorepeat.
2006 0 = disabled, 1 = enabled (default).
2007
2008 pss= [HW,OSS] Personal Sound System (ECHO ESC614)
2009 Format:
2010 <io>,<mss_io>,<mss_irq>,<mss_dma>,<mpu_io>,<mpu_irq>
2011
2012 pt. [PARIDE]
2013 See Documentation/blockdev/paride.txt.
2014
2015 pty.legacy_count=
2016 [KNL] Number of legacy pty's. Overwrites compiled-in
2017 default number.
2018
2019 quiet [KNL] Disable most log messages
2020
2021 r128= [HW,DRM]
2022
2023 raid= [HW,RAID]
2024 See Documentation/md.txt.
2025
2026 ramdisk_blocksize= [RAM]
2027 See Documentation/blockdev/ramdisk.txt.
2028
2029 ramdisk_size= [RAM] Sizes of RAM disks in kilobytes
2030 See Documentation/blockdev/ramdisk.txt.
2031
2032 rcupdate.blimit= [KNL,BOOT]
2033 Set maximum number of finished RCU callbacks to process
2034 in one batch.
2035
2036 rcupdate.qhimark= [KNL,BOOT]
2037 Set threshold of queued
2038 RCU callbacks over which batch limiting is disabled.
2039
2040 rcupdate.qlowmark= [KNL,BOOT]
2041 Set threshold of queued RCU callbacks below which
2042 batch limiting is re-enabled.
2043
2044 rdinit= [KNL]
2045 Format: <full_path>
2046 Run specified binary instead of /init from the ramdisk,
2047 used for early userspace startup. See initrd.
2048
2049 reboot= [BUGS=X86-32,BUGS=ARM,BUGS=IA-64] Rebooting mode
2050 Format: <reboot_mode>[,<reboot_mode2>[,...]]
2051 See arch/*/kernel/reboot.c or arch/*/kernel/process.c
2052
2053 relax_domain_level=
2054 [KNL, SMP] Set scheduler's default relax_domain_level.
2055 See Documentation/cgroups/cpusets.txt.
2056
2057 reserve= [KNL,BUGS] Force the kernel to ignore some iomem area
2058
2059 reservetop= [X86-32]
2060 Format: nn[KMG]
2061 Reserves a hole at the top of the kernel virtual
2062 address space.
2063
2064 reset_devices [KNL] Force drivers to reset the underlying device
2065 during initialization.
2066
2067 resume= [SWSUSP]
2068 Specify the partition device for software suspend
2069
2070 resume_offset= [SWSUSP]
2071 Specify the offset from the beginning of the partition
2072 given by "resume=" at which the swap header is located,
2073 in <PAGE_SIZE> units (needed only for swap files).
2074 See Documentation/power/swsusp-and-swap-files.txt
2075
2076 retain_initrd [RAM] Keep initrd memory after extraction
2077
2078 rhash_entries= [KNL,NET]
2079 Set number of hash buckets for route cache
2080
2081 riscom8= [HW,SERIAL]
2082 Format: <io_board1>[,<io_board2>[,...<io_boardN>]]
2083
2084 ro [KNL] Mount root device read-only on boot
2085
2086 root= [KNL] Root filesystem
2087
2088 rootdelay= [KNL] Delay (in seconds) to pause before attempting to
2089 mount the root filesystem
2090
2091 rootflags= [KNL] Set root filesystem mount option string
2092
2093 rootfstype= [KNL] Set root filesystem type
2094
2095 rootwait [KNL] Wait (indefinitely) for root device to show up.
2096 Useful for devices that are detected asynchronously
2097 (e.g. USB and MMC devices).
2098
2099 root_plug.vendor_id=
2100 [ROOTPLUG] Override the default vendor ID
2101
2102 root_plug.product_id=
2103 [ROOTPLUG] Override the default product ID
2104
2105 root_plug.debug=
2106 [ROOTPLUG] Enable debugging output
2107
2108 rw [KNL] Mount root device read-write on boot
2109
2110 S [KNL] Run init in single mode
2111
2112 sa1100ir [NET]
2113 See drivers/net/irda/sa1100_ir.c.
2114
2115 sbni= [NET] Granch SBNI12 leased line adapter
2116
2117 sc1200wdt= [HW,WDT] SC1200 WDT (watchdog) driver
2118 Format: <io>[,<timeout>[,<isapnp>]]
2119
2120 scsi_debug_*= [SCSI]
2121 See drivers/scsi/scsi_debug.c.
2122
2123 scsi_default_dev_flags=
2124 [SCSI] SCSI default device flags
2125 Format: <integer>
2126
2127 scsi_dev_flags= [SCSI] Black/white list entry for vendor and model
2128 Format: <vendor>:<model>:<flags>
2129 (flags are integer value)
2130
2131 scsi_logging_level= [SCSI] a bit mask of logging levels
2132 See drivers/scsi/scsi_logging.h for bits. Also
2133 settable via sysctl at dev.scsi.logging_level
2134 (/proc/sys/dev/scsi/logging_level).
2135 There is also a nice 'scsi_logging_level' script in the
2136 S390-tools package, available for download at
2137 http://www-128.ibm.com/developerworks/linux/linux390/s390-tools-1.5.4.html
2138
2139 scsi_mod.scan= [SCSI] sync (default) scans SCSI busses as they are
2140 discovered. async scans them in kernel threads,
2141 allowing boot to proceed. none ignores them, expecting
2142 user space to do the scan.
2143
2144 security= [SECURITY] Choose a security module to enable at boot.
2145 If this boot parameter is not specified, only the first
2146 security module asking for security registration will be
2147 loaded. An invalid security module name will be treated
2148 as if no module has been chosen.
2149
2150 selinux= [SELINUX] Disable or enable SELinux at boot time.
2151 Format: { "0" | "1" }
2152 See security/selinux/Kconfig help text.
2153 0 -- disable.
2154 1 -- enable.
2155 Default value is set via kernel config option.
2156 If enabled at boot time, /selinux/disable can be used
2157 later to disable prior to initial policy load.
2158
2159 serialnumber [BUGS=X86-32]
2160
2161 shapers= [NET]
2162 Maximal number of shapers.
2163
2164 show_msr= [x86] show boot-time MSR settings
2165 Format: { <integer> }
2166 Show boot-time (BIOS-initialized) MSR settings.
2167 The parameter means the number of CPUs to show,
2168 for example 1 means boot CPU only.
2169
2170 sim710= [SCSI,HW]
2171 See header of drivers/scsi/sim710.c.
2172
2173 simeth= [IA-64]
2174 simscsi=
2175
2176 slram= [HW,MTD]
2177
2178 slub_debug[=options[,slabs]] [MM, SLUB]
2179 Enabling slub_debug allows one to determine the
2180 culprit if slab objects become corrupted. Enabling
2181 slub_debug can create guard zones around objects and
2182 may poison objects when not in use. Also tracks the
2183 last alloc / free. For more information see
2184 Documentation/vm/slub.txt.
2185
2186 slub_max_order= [MM, SLUB]
2187 Determines the maximum allowed order for slabs.
2188 A high setting may cause OOMs due to memory
2189 fragmentation. For more information see
2190 Documentation/vm/slub.txt.
2191
2192 slub_min_objects= [MM, SLUB]
2193 The minimum number of objects per slab. SLUB will
2194 increase the slab order up to slub_max_order to
2195 generate a sufficiently large slab able to contain
2196 the number of objects indicated. The higher the number
2197 of objects the smaller the overhead of tracking slabs
2198 and the less frequently locks need to be acquired.
2199 For more information see Documentation/vm/slub.txt.
2200
2201 slub_min_order= [MM, SLUB]
2202 Determines the mininum page order for slabs. Must be
2203 lower than slub_max_order.
2204 For more information see Documentation/vm/slub.txt.
2205
2206 slub_nomerge [MM, SLUB]
2207 Disable merging of slabs with similar size. May be
2208 necessary if there is some reason to distinguish
2209 allocs to different slabs. Debug options disable
2210 merging on their own.
2211 For more information see Documentation/vm/slub.txt.
2212
2213 smart2= [HW]
2214 Format: <io1>[,<io2>[,...,<io8>]]
2215
2216 smp-alt-once [X86-32,SMP] On a hotplug CPU system, only
2217 attempt to substitute SMP alternatives once at boot.
2218
2219 smsc-ircc2.nopnp [HW] Don't use PNP to discover SMC devices
2220 smsc-ircc2.ircc_cfg= [HW] Device configuration I/O port
2221 smsc-ircc2.ircc_sir= [HW] SIR base I/O port
2222 smsc-ircc2.ircc_fir= [HW] FIR base I/O port
2223 smsc-ircc2.ircc_irq= [HW] IRQ line
2224 smsc-ircc2.ircc_dma= [HW] DMA channel
2225 smsc-ircc2.ircc_transceiver= [HW] Transceiver type:
2226 0: Toshiba Satellite 1800 (GP data pin select)
2227 1: Fast pin select (default)
2228 2: ATC IRMode
2229
2230 snd-ad1816a= [HW,ALSA]
2231
2232 snd-ad1848= [HW,ALSA]
2233
2234 snd-ali5451= [HW,ALSA]
2235
2236 snd-als100= [HW,ALSA]
2237
2238 snd-als4000= [HW,ALSA]
2239
2240 snd-azt2320= [HW,ALSA]
2241
2242 snd-cmi8330= [HW,ALSA]
2243
2244 snd-cmipci= [HW,ALSA]
2245
2246 snd-cs4231= [HW,ALSA]
2247
2248 snd-cs4232= [HW,ALSA]
2249
2250 snd-cs4236= [HW,ALSA]
2251
2252 snd-cs4281= [HW,ALSA]
2253
2254 snd-cs46xx= [HW,ALSA]
2255
2256 snd-dt019x= [HW,ALSA]
2257
2258 snd-dummy= [HW,ALSA]
2259
2260 snd-emu10k1= [HW,ALSA]
2261
2262 snd-ens1370= [HW,ALSA]
2263
2264 snd-ens1371= [HW,ALSA]
2265
2266 snd-es968= [HW,ALSA]
2267
2268 snd-es1688= [HW,ALSA]
2269
2270 snd-es18xx= [HW,ALSA]
2271
2272 snd-es1938= [HW,ALSA]
2273
2274 snd-es1968= [HW,ALSA]
2275
2276 snd-fm801= [HW,ALSA]
2277
2278 snd-gusclassic= [HW,ALSA]
2279
2280 snd-gusextreme= [HW,ALSA]
2281
2282 snd-gusmax= [HW,ALSA]
2283
2284 snd-hdsp= [HW,ALSA]
2285
2286 snd-ice1712= [HW,ALSA]
2287
2288 snd-intel8x0= [HW,ALSA]
2289
2290 snd-interwave= [HW,ALSA]
2291
2292 snd-interwave-stb=
2293 [HW,ALSA]
2294
2295 snd-korg1212= [HW,ALSA]
2296
2297 snd-maestro3= [HW,ALSA]
2298
2299 snd-mpu401= [HW,ALSA]
2300
2301 snd-mtpav= [HW,ALSA]
2302
2303 snd-nm256= [HW,ALSA]
2304
2305 snd-opl3sa2= [HW,ALSA]
2306
2307 snd-opti92x-ad1848=
2308 [HW,ALSA]
2309
2310 snd-opti92x-cs4231=
2311 [HW,ALSA]
2312
2313 snd-opti93x= [HW,ALSA]
2314
2315 snd-pmac= [HW,ALSA]
2316
2317 snd-rme32= [HW,ALSA]
2318
2319 snd-rme96= [HW,ALSA]
2320
2321 snd-rme9652= [HW,ALSA]
2322
2323 snd-sb8= [HW,ALSA]
2324
2325 snd-sb16= [HW,ALSA]
2326
2327 snd-sbawe= [HW,ALSA]
2328
2329 snd-serial= [HW,ALSA]
2330
2331 snd-sgalaxy= [HW,ALSA]
2332
2333 snd-sonicvibes= [HW,ALSA]
2334
2335 snd-sun-amd7930=
2336 [HW,ALSA]
2337
2338 snd-sun-cs4231= [HW,ALSA]
2339
2340 snd-trident= [HW,ALSA]
2341
2342 snd-usb-audio= [HW,ALSA,USB]
2343
2344 snd-via82xx= [HW,ALSA]
2345
2346 snd-virmidi= [HW,ALSA]
2347
2348 snd-wavefront= [HW,ALSA]
2349
2350 snd-ymfpci= [HW,ALSA]
2351
2352 softlockup_panic=
2353 [KNL] Should the soft-lockup detector generate panics.
2354
2355 sonypi.*= [HW] Sony Programmable I/O Control Device driver
2356 See Documentation/sonypi.txt
2357
2358 specialix= [HW,SERIAL] Specialix multi-serial port adapter
2359 See Documentation/serial/specialix.txt.
2360
2361 spia_io_base= [HW,MTD]
2362 spia_fio_base=
2363 spia_pedr=
2364 spia_peddr=
2365
2366 sscape= [HW,OSS]
2367 Format: <io>,<irq>,<dma>,<mpu_io>,<mpu_irq>
2368
2369 st= [HW,SCSI] SCSI tape parameters (buffers, etc.)
2370 See Documentation/scsi/st.txt.
2371
2372 stacktrace [FTRACE]
2373 Enabled the stack tracer on boot up.
2374
2375 sti= [PARISC,HW]
2376 Format: <num>
2377 Set the STI (builtin display/keyboard on the HP-PARISC
2378 machines) console (graphic card) which should be used
2379 as the initial boot-console.
2380 See also comment in drivers/video/console/sticore.c.
2381
2382 sti_font= [HW]
2383 See comment in drivers/video/console/sticore.c.
2384
2385 stifb= [HW]
2386 Format: bpp:<bpp1>[:<bpp2>[:<bpp3>...]]
2387
2388 sunrpc.pool_mode=
2389 [NFS]
2390 Control how the NFS server code allocates CPUs to
2391 service thread pools. Depending on how many NICs
2392 you have and where their interrupts are bound, this
2393 option will affect which CPUs will do NFS serving.
2394 Note: this parameter cannot be changed while the
2395 NFS server is running.
2396
2397 auto the server chooses an appropriate mode
2398 automatically using heuristics
2399 global a single global pool contains all CPUs
2400 percpu one pool for each CPU
2401 pernode one pool for each NUMA node (equivalent
2402 to global on non-NUMA machines)
2403
2404 swiotlb= [IA-64] Number of I/O TLB slabs
2405
2406 switches= [HW,M68k]
2407
2408 sym53c416= [HW,SCSI]
2409 See header of drivers/scsi/sym53c416.c.
2410
2411 sysrq_always_enabled
2412 [KNL]
2413 Ignore sysrq setting - this boot parameter will
2414 neutralize any effect of /proc/sys/kernel/sysrq.
2415 Useful for debugging.
2416
2417 t128= [HW,SCSI]
2418 See header of drivers/scsi/t128.c.
2419
2420 tdfx= [HW,DRM]
2421
2422 test_suspend= [SUSPEND]
2423 Specify "mem" (for Suspend-to-RAM) or "standby" (for
2424 standby suspend) as the system sleep state to briefly
2425 enter during system startup. The system is woken from
2426 this state using a wakeup-capable RTC alarm.
2427
2428 thash_entries= [KNL,NET]
2429 Set number of hash buckets for TCP connection
2430
2431 thermal.act= [HW,ACPI]
2432 -1: disable all active trip points in all thermal zones
2433 <degrees C>: override all lowest active trip points
2434
2435 thermal.crt= [HW,ACPI]
2436 -1: disable all critical trip points in all thermal zones
2437 <degrees C>: override all critical trip points
2438
2439 thermal.nocrt= [HW,ACPI]
2440 Set to disable actions on ACPI thermal zone
2441 critical and hot trip points.
2442
2443 thermal.off= [HW,ACPI]
2444 1: disable ACPI thermal control
2445
2446 thermal.psv= [HW,ACPI]
2447 -1: disable all passive trip points
2448 <degrees C>: override all passive trip points to this
2449 value
2450
2451 thermal.tzp= [HW,ACPI]
2452 Specify global default ACPI thermal zone polling rate
2453 <deci-seconds>: poll all this frequency
2454 0: no polling (default)
2455
2456 tmscsim= [HW,SCSI]
2457 See comment before function dc390_setup() in
2458 drivers/scsi/tmscsim.c.
2459
2460 topology= [S390]
2461 Format: {off | on}
2462 Specify if the kernel should make use of the cpu
2463 topology informations if the hardware supports these.
2464 The scheduler will make use of these informations and
2465 e.g. base its process migration decisions on it.
2466 Default is off.
2467
2468 tp720= [HW,PS2]
2469
2470 trace_buf_size=nn[KMG] [ftrace] will set tracing buffer size.
2471
2472 trix= [HW,OSS] MediaTrix AudioTrix Pro
2473 Format:
2474 <io>,<irq>,<dma>,<dma2>,<sb_io>,<sb_irq>,<sb_dma>,<mpu_io>,<mpu_irq>
2475
2476 tsc= Disable clocksource-must-verify flag for TSC.
2477 Format: <string>
2478 [x86] reliable: mark tsc clocksource as reliable, this
2479 disables clocksource verification at runtime.
2480 Used to enable high-resolution timer mode on older
2481 hardware, and in virtualized environment.
2482
2483 turbografx.map[2|3]= [HW,JOY]
2484 TurboGraFX parallel port interface
2485 Format:
2486 <port#>,<js1>,<js2>,<js3>,<js4>,<js5>,<js6>,<js7>
2487 See also Documentation/input/joystick-parport.txt
2488
2489 u14-34f= [HW,SCSI] UltraStor 14F/34F SCSI host adapter
2490 See header of drivers/scsi/u14-34f.c.
2491
2492 uart401= [HW,OSS]
2493 Format: <io>,<irq>
2494
2495 uart6850= [HW,OSS]
2496 Format: <io>,<irq>
2497
2498 uhci-hcd.ignore_oc=
2499 [USB] Ignore overcurrent events (default N).
2500 Some badly-designed motherboards generate lots of
2501 bogus events, for ports that aren't wired to
2502 anything. Set this parameter to avoid log spamming.
2503 Note that genuine overcurrent events won't be
2504 reported either.
2505
2506 unknown_nmi_panic
2507 [X86]
2508 Set unknown_nmi_panic=1 early on boot.
2509
2510 usbcore.autosuspend=
2511 [USB] The autosuspend time delay (in seconds) used
2512 for newly-detected USB devices (default 2). This
2513 is the time required before an idle device will be
2514 autosuspended. Devices for which the delay is set
2515 to a negative value won't be autosuspended at all.
2516
2517 usbcore.usbfs_snoop=
2518 [USB] Set to log all usbfs traffic (default 0 = off).
2519
2520 usbcore.blinkenlights=
2521 [USB] Set to cycle leds on hubs (default 0 = off).
2522
2523 usbcore.old_scheme_first=
2524 [USB] Start with the old device initialization
2525 scheme (default 0 = off).
2526
2527 usbcore.use_both_schemes=
2528 [USB] Try the other device initialization scheme
2529 if the first one fails (default 1 = enabled).
2530
2531 usbcore.initial_descriptor_timeout=
2532 [USB] Specifies timeout for the initial 64-byte
2533 USB_REQ_GET_DESCRIPTOR request in milliseconds
2534 (default 5000 = 5.0 seconds).
2535
2536 usbhid.mousepoll=
2537 [USBHID] The interval which mice are to be polled at.
2538
2539 usb-storage.delay_use=
2540 [UMS] The delay in seconds before a new device is
2541 scanned for Logical Units (default 5).
2542
2543 usb-storage.quirks=
2544 [UMS] A list of quirks entries to supplement or
2545 override the built-in unusual_devs list. List
2546 entries are separated by commas. Each entry has
2547 the form VID:PID:Flags where VID and PID are Vendor
2548 and Product ID values (4-digit hex numbers) and
2549 Flags is a set of characters, each corresponding
2550 to a common usb-storage quirk flag as follows:
2551 a = SANE_SENSE (collect more than 18 bytes
2552 of sense data);
2553 c = FIX_CAPACITY (decrease the reported
2554 device capacity by one sector);
2555 h = CAPACITY_HEURISTICS (decrease the
2556 reported device capacity by one
2557 sector if the number is odd);
2558 i = IGNORE_DEVICE (don't bind to this
2559 device);
2560 l = NOT_LOCKABLE (don't try to lock and
2561 unlock ejectable media);
2562 m = MAX_SECTORS_64 (don't transfer more
2563 than 64 sectors = 32 KB at a time);
2564 o = CAPACITY_OK (accept the capacity
2565 reported by the device);
2566 r = IGNORE_RESIDUE (the device reports
2567 bogus residue values);
2568 s = SINGLE_LUN (the device has only one
2569 Logical Unit);
2570 w = NO_WP_DETECT (don't test whether the
2571 medium is write-protected).
2572 Example: quirks=0419:aaf5:rl,0421:0433:rc
2573
2574 vdso= [X86,SH]
2575 vdso=2: enable compat VDSO (default with COMPAT_VDSO)
2576 vdso=1: enable VDSO (default)
2577 vdso=0: disable VDSO mapping
2578
2579 vdso32= [X86]
2580 vdso32=2: enable compat VDSO (default with COMPAT_VDSO)
2581 vdso32=1: enable 32-bit VDSO (default)
2582 vdso32=0: disable 32-bit VDSO mapping
2583
2584 vector= [IA-64,SMP]
2585 vector=percpu: enable percpu vector domain
2586
2587 video= [FB] Frame buffer configuration
2588 See Documentation/fb/modedb.txt.
2589
2590 vga= [BOOT,X86-32] Select a particular video mode
2591 See Documentation/x86/boot.txt and
2592 Documentation/svga.txt.
2593 Use vga=ask for menu.
2594 This is actually a boot loader parameter; the value is
2595 passed to the kernel using a special protocol.
2596
2597 vmalloc=nn[KMG] [KNL,BOOT] Forces the vmalloc area to have an exact
2598 size of <nn>. This can be used to increase the
2599 minimum size (128MB on x86). It can also be used to
2600 decrease the size and leave more room for directly
2601 mapped kernel RAM.
2602
2603 vmhalt= [KNL,S390] Perform z/VM CP command after system halt.
2604 Format: <command>
2605
2606 vmpanic= [KNL,S390] Perform z/VM CP command after kernel panic.
2607 Format: <command>
2608
2609 vmpoff= [KNL,S390] Perform z/VM CP command after power off.
2610 Format: <command>
2611
2612 vt.default_blu= [VT]
2613 Format: <blue0>,<blue1>,<blue2>,...,<blue15>
2614 Change the default blue palette of the console.
2615 This is a 16-member array composed of values
2616 ranging from 0-255.
2617
2618 vt.default_grn= [VT]
2619 Format: <green0>,<green1>,<green2>,...,<green15>
2620 Change the default green palette of the console.
2621 This is a 16-member array composed of values
2622 ranging from 0-255.
2623
2624 vt.default_red= [VT]
2625 Format: <red0>,<red1>,<red2>,...,<red15>
2626 Change the default red palette of the console.
2627 This is a 16-member array composed of values
2628 ranging from 0-255.
2629
2630 vt.default_utf8=
2631 [VT]
2632 Format=<0|1>
2633 Set system-wide default UTF-8 mode for all tty's.
2634 Default is 1, i.e. UTF-8 mode is enabled for all
2635 newly opened terminals.
2636
2637 waveartist= [HW,OSS]
2638 Format: <io>,<irq>,<dma>,<dma2>
2639
2640 wd33c93= [HW,SCSI]
2641 See header of drivers/scsi/wd33c93.c.
2642
2643 wd7000= [HW,SCSI]
2644 See header of drivers/scsi/wd7000.c.
2645
2646 wdt= [WDT] Watchdog
2647 See Documentation/watchdog/wdt.txt.
2648
2649 x2apic_phys [X86-64,APIC] Use x2apic physical mode instead of
2650 default x2apic cluster mode on platforms
2651 supporting x2apic.
2652
2653 xd= [HW,XT] Original XT pre-IDE (RLL encoded) disks.
2654 xd_geo= See header of drivers/block/xd.c.
2655
2656 xirc2ps_cs= [NET,PCMCIA]
2657 Format:
2658 <irq>,<irq_mask>,<io>,<full_duplex>,<do_sound>,<lockup_hack>[,<irq2>[,<irq3>[,<irq4>]]]
2659
2660 ______________________________________________________________________
2661
2662 TODO:
2663
2664 Add documentation for ALSA options.
2665 Add more DRM drivers.