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Diffstat (limited to 'sys/boot/common/loader.8')
| -rw-r--r-- | sys/boot/common/loader.8 | 8 |
1 files changed, 7 insertions, 1 deletions
diff --git a/sys/boot/common/loader.8 b/sys/boot/common/loader.8 index fe247ac..cac5674 100644 --- a/sys/boot/common/loader.8 +++ b/sys/boot/common/loader.8 @@ -24,7 +24,7 @@ .\" .\" $FreeBSD$ .\" -.Dd October 1, 2013 +.Dd December 22, 2014 .Dt LOADER 8 .Os .Sh NAME @@ -670,6 +670,12 @@ Overrides the compile-time set value of .Dv TCBHASHSIZE or the preset default of 512. Must be a power of 2. +.It Va twiddle_divisor +Throttles the output of the `twiddle' I/O progress indicator displayed +while loading the kernel and modules. +This is useful on slow serial consoles where the time spent waiting for +these characters to be written can add up to many seconds. +The default is 1 (full speed); a value of 2 spins half as fast, and so on. .It Va vm.kmem_size Sets the size of kernel memory (bytes). This overrides the value determined when the kernel was compiled. |
