Commit ee597d31 authored by Randy Dunlap's avatar Randy Dunlap Committed by Linus Torvalds

[PATCH] 2.5.42 Doc/kernel-parameters

Updates/corrects Documentation/kernel-parameters.txt file.
parent 356c3c30
......@@ -23,6 +23,7 @@ restrictions referred to are that the relevant option is valid if:
HW Appropriate hardware is enabled.
IA-32 IA-32 aka i386 architecture is enabled.
IA-64 IA-64 architecture is enabled.
IP_PNP IP DCHP, BOOTP, or RARP is enabled.
ISAPNP ISA PnP code is enabled.
ISDN Appropriate ISDN support is enabled.
JOY Appropriate joystick support is enabled.
......@@ -257,7 +258,7 @@ running once the system is up.
initrd= [BOOT] Specify the location of the initial ramdisk.
ip= [PNP]
ip= [IP_PNP]
isapnp= [ISAPNP] Specify RDP, reset, pci_scan and verbosity.
......@@ -279,10 +280,14 @@ running once the system is up.
kbd-reset [VT]
keep_initrd [HW, ARM]
keepinitrd [HW, ARM]
load_ramdisk= [RAM] List of ramdisks to load from floppy.
lockd.udpport= [NFS]
lockd.tcpport= [NFS]
logi_busmouse= [HW, MOUSE]
lp=0 [LP] Specify parallel ports to use, e.g,
......@@ -323,6 +328,8 @@ running once the system is up.
to off as the mainboard support is not always present.
You must activate it as a boot option
mca-pentium [BUGS=IA-32]
mcd= [HW,CD]
mcdx= [HW,CD]
......@@ -335,6 +342,11 @@ running once the system is up.
megaraid= [HW,SCSI]
mem=exactmap [KNL,BOOT,IA-32] enable setting of an exact
e820 memory map, as specified by the user.
Such mem=exactmap lines can be constructed
based on BIOS output or other requirements.
mem=nn[KMG] [KNL,BOOT] force use of a specific amount of
memory; to be used when the kernel is not able
to see the whole system memory or for test.
......@@ -390,7 +402,9 @@ running once the system is up.
nohlt [BUGS=ARM]
no-hlt [BUGS=IA-32]
no-hlt [BUGS=IA-32] Tells the kernel that the hlt
instruction doesn't work correctly and not to
use it.
noht [SMP,IA-32] Disables P4 Xeon(tm) HyperThreading.
......@@ -537,6 +551,10 @@ running once the system is up.
root= [KNL] root filesystem.
rootflags= [KNL] set root filesystem mount option string
rootfstype= [KNL] set root filesystem type
rw [KNL] Mount root device read-write on boot.
S [KNL] run init in single mode.
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