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1 files changed, 10 insertions, 4 deletions
diff --git a/Documentation/kernel-parameters.txt b/Documentation/kernel-parameters.txt index b3a5aad7e629..5e497d16fb51 100644 --- a/Documentation/kernel-parameters.txt +++ b/Documentation/kernel-parameters.txt @@ -571,6 +571,8 @@ and is between 256 and 4096 characters. It is defined in the file debug_objects [KNL] Enable object debugging + debugpat [X86] Enable PAT debugging + decnet.addr= [HW,NET] Format: <area>[,<node>] See also Documentation/networking/decnet.txt. @@ -756,9 +758,6 @@ and is between 256 and 4096 characters. It is defined in the file hd= [EIDE] (E)IDE hard drive subsystem geometry Format: <cyl>,<head>,<sect> - hd?= [HW] (E)IDE subsystem - hd?lun= See Documentation/ide/ide.txt. - highmem=nn[KMG] [KNL,BOOT] forces the highmem zone to have an exact size of <nn>. This works even on boxes that have no highmem otherwise. This also works to reduce highmem @@ -819,7 +818,7 @@ and is between 256 and 4096 characters. It is defined in the file See Documentation/ide/ide.txt. idle= [X86] - Format: idle=poll or idle=mwait + Format: idle=poll or idle=mwait, idle=halt, idle=nomwait Poll forces a polling idle loop that can slightly improves the performance of waking up a idle CPU, but will use a lot of power and make the system run hot. Not recommended. @@ -827,6 +826,9 @@ and is between 256 and 4096 characters. It is defined in the file to not use it because it doesn't save as much power as a normal idle loop use the MONITOR/MWAIT idle loop anyways. Performance should be the same as idle=poll. + idle=halt. Halt is forced to be used for CPU idle. + In such case C2/C3 won't be used again. + idle=nomwait. Disable mwait for CPU C-states ide-pci-generic.all-generic-ide [HW] (E)IDE subsystem Claim all unknown PCI IDE storage controllers. @@ -1610,6 +1612,10 @@ and is between 256 and 4096 characters. It is defined in the file Format: { parport<nr> | timid | 0 } See also Documentation/parport.txt. + pmtmr= [X86] Manual setup of pmtmr I/O Port. + Override pmtimer IOPort with a hex value. + e.g. pmtmr=0x508 + pnpacpi= [ACPI] { off } |