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authorIngo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>2008-07-18 19:31:12 +0200
committerIngo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>2008-07-18 19:31:12 +0200
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Merge branch 'linus' into x86/pci-ioapic-boot-irq-quirks
Conflicts: drivers/pci/quirks.c Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
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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 }
@@ -571,6 +575,8 @@ 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 +762,6 @@ 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 +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.
@@ -827,6 +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.
@@ -1242,6 +1248,11 @@ and is between 256 and 4096 characters. It is defined in the file
mtdparts= [MTD]
See drivers/mtd/cmdlinepart.c.
+ mtdset= [ARM]
+ ARM/S3C2412 JIVE boot control
+
+ See arch/arm/mach-s3c2412/mach-jive.c
+
mtouchusb.raw_coordinates=
[HW] Make the MicroTouch USB driver use raw coordinates
('y', default) or cooked coordinates ('n')
@@ -1537,6 +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
@@ -1612,6 +1626,10 @@ 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 }
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