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authorRandy Dunlap <randy.dunlap@oracle.com>2007-07-31 00:37:40 -0700
committerLinus Torvalds <torvalds@woody.linux-foundation.org>2007-07-31 15:39:37 -0700
commitc8facbb62111f9333d00870b0d523f5036822d04 (patch)
tree7c1206728991e360f360b574c9218f0471982a24 /Documentation
parentf53161d1088567dda41094a932f6a16dc0bdae59 (diff)
downloadlinux-c8facbb62111f9333d00870b0d523f5036822d04.tar.bz2
various doc/kernel-parameters fixes
- tell what APIC (by request), MTD, & PARIDE mean - correct some source file names - remove IA64 "llsc*=" (seems to have been removed from source tree) - removel SCSI "53c7xx=" (driver already removed) Signed-off-by: Randy Dunlap <randy.dunlap@oracle.com> Acked-by: Jesper Juhl <jesper.juhl@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Diffstat (limited to 'Documentation')
-rw-r--r--Documentation/kernel-parameters.txt21
1 files changed, 8 insertions, 13 deletions
diff --git a/Documentation/kernel-parameters.txt b/Documentation/kernel-parameters.txt
index 1156653338fe..00254c018a25 100644
--- a/Documentation/kernel-parameters.txt
+++ b/Documentation/kernel-parameters.txt
@@ -58,14 +58,14 @@ parameter is applicable:
MDA MDA console support is enabled.
MOUSE Appropriate mouse support is enabled.
MSI Message Signaled Interrupts (PCI).
- MTD MTD support is enabled.
+ MTD MTD (Memory Technology Device) support is enabled.
NET Appropriate network support is enabled.
NUMA NUMA support is enabled.
GENERIC_TIME The generic timeofday code is enabled.
NFS Appropriate NFS support is enabled.
OSS OSS sound support is enabled.
- PV_OPS A paravirtualized kernel
- PARIDE The ParIDE subsystem is enabled.
+ PV_OPS A paravirtualized kernel is enabled.
+ PARIDE The ParIDE (parallel port IDE) subsystem is enabled.
PARISC The PA-RISC architecture is enabled.
PCI PCI bus support is enabled.
PCMCIA The PCMCIA subsystem is enabled.
@@ -123,10 +123,6 @@ and is between 256 and 4096 characters. It is defined in the file
./include/asm/setup.h as COMMAND_LINE_SIZE.
- 53c7xx= [HW,SCSI] Amiga SCSI controllers
- See header of drivers/scsi/53c7xx.c.
- See also Documentation/scsi/ncr53c7xx.txt.
-
acpi= [HW,ACPI,X86-64,i386]
Advanced Configuration and Power Interface
Format: { force | off | ht | strict | noirq }
@@ -286,7 +282,8 @@ and is between 256 and 4096 characters. It is defined in the file
not play well with APC CPU idle - disable it if you have
APC and your system crashes randomly.
- apic= [APIC,i386] Change the output verbosity whilst booting
+ apic= [APIC,i386] Advanced Programmable Interrupt Controller
+ Change the output verbosity whilst booting
Format: { quiet (default) | verbose | debug }
Change the amount of debugging information output
when initialising the APIC and IO-APIC components.
@@ -775,7 +772,8 @@ and is between 256 and 4096 characters. It is defined in the file
See Documentation/nfsroot.txt.
ip2= [HW] Set IO/IRQ pairs for up to 4 IntelliPort boards
- See comment before ip2_setup() in drivers/char/ip2.c.
+ See comment before ip2_setup() in
+ drivers/char/ip2/ip2base.c.
ips= [HW,SCSI] Adaptec / IBM ServeRAID controller
See header of drivers/scsi/ips.c.
@@ -871,9 +869,6 @@ and is between 256 and 4096 characters. It is defined in the file
if PNPBIOS or ACPI should describe them. This
is for working around firmware defects.
- llsc*= [IA64] See function print_params() in
- arch/ia64/sn/kernel/llsc4.c.
-
load_ramdisk= [RAM] List of ramdisks to load from floppy
See Documentation/ramdisk.txt.
@@ -1046,7 +1041,7 @@ and is between 256 and 4096 characters. It is defined in the file
<name>,<region-number>[,<base>,<size>,<buswidth>,<altbuswidth>]
mtdparts= [MTD]
- See drivers/mtd/cmdline.c.
+ See drivers/mtd/cmdlinepart.c.
mtouchusb.raw_coordinates=
[HW] Make the MicroTouch USB driver use raw coordinates