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@@ -147,10 +147,14 @@ and is between 256 and 4096 characters. It is defined in the file
default: 0
acpi_sleep= [HW,ACPI] Sleep options
- Format: { s3_bios, s3_mode, s3_beep }
+ Format: { s3_bios, s3_mode, s3_beep, old_ordering }
See Documentation/power/video.txt for s3_bios and s3_mode.
s3_beep is for debugging; it makes the PC's speaker beep
as soon as the kernel's real-mode entry point is called.
+ old_ordering causes the ACPI 1.0 ordering of the _PTS
+ control method, wrt putting devices into low power
+ states, to be enforced (the ACPI 2.0 ordering of _PTS is
+ used by default).
acpi_sci= [HW,ACPI] ACPI System Control Interrupt trigger mode
Format: { level | edge | high | low }
@@ -818,7 +822,7 @@ 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.
@@ -826,6 +830,9 @@ 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.
@@ -1199,7 +1206,7 @@ and is between 256 and 4096 characters. It is defined in the file
or
memmap=0x10000$0x18690000
- memtest= [KNL,X86_64] Enable memtest
+ memtest= [KNL,X86] Enable memtest
Format: <integer>
range: 0,4 : pattern number
default : 0 <disable>
@@ -1272,6 +1279,13 @@ and is between 256 and 4096 characters. It is defined in the file
This usage is only documented in each driver source
file if at all.
+ nf_conntrack.acct=
+ [NETFILTER] Enable connection tracking flow accounting
+ 0 to disable accounting
+ 1 to enable accounting
+ Default value depends on CONFIG_NF_CT_ACCT that is
+ going to be removed in 2.6.29.
+
nfsaddrs= [NFS]
See Documentation/filesystems/nfsroot.txt.
@@ -1534,6 +1548,9 @@ and is between 256 and 4096 characters. It is defined in the file
Use with caution as certain devices share
address decoders between ROMs and other
resources.
+ norom [X86-32,X86_64] Do not assign address space to
+ expansion ROMs that do not already have
+ BIOS assigned address ranges.
irqmask=0xMMMM [X86-32] Set a bit mask of IRQs allowed to be
assigned automatically to PCI devices. You can
make the kernel exclude IRQs of your ISA cards
@@ -2151,6 +2168,10 @@ and is between 256 and 4096 characters. It is defined in the file
Note that genuine overcurrent events won't be
reported either.
+ unknown_nmi_panic
+ [X86-32,X86-64]
+ Set unknown_nmi_panic=1 early on boot.
+
usbcore.autosuspend=
[USB] The autosuspend time delay (in seconds) used
for newly-detected USB devices (default 2). This