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| -rw-r--r-- | Documentation/kernel-parameters.txt | 45 |
1 files changed, 26 insertions, 19 deletions
diff --git a/Documentation/kernel-parameters.txt b/Documentation/kernel-parameters.txt index 136f028..f3a89fa 100644 --- a/Documentation/kernel-parameters.txt +++ b/Documentation/kernel-parameters.txt @@ -150,16 +150,20 @@ 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, s4_nohwsig, old_ordering } - See Documentation/power/video.txt for s3_bios and s3_mode. + Format: { s3_bios, s3_mode, s3_beep, s4_nohwsig, + old_ordering, s4_nonvs } + See Documentation/power/video.txt for information on + 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. s4_nohwsig prevents ACPI hardware signature from being used during resume from hibernation. 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). + control method, with respect to putting devices into + low power states, to be enforced (the ACPI 2.0 ordering + of _PTS is used by default). + s4_nonvs prevents the kernel from saving/restoring the + ACPI NVS memory during hibernation. acpi_sci= [HW,ACPI] ACPI System Control Interrupt trigger mode Format: { level | edge | high | low } @@ -194,7 +198,7 @@ and is between 256 and 4096 characters. It is defined in the file acpi_skip_timer_override [HW,ACPI] Recognize and ignore IRQ0/pin2 Interrupt Override. For broken nForce2 BIOS resulting in XT-PIC timer. - acpi_use_timer_override [HW,ACPI} + acpi_use_timer_override [HW,ACPI] Use timer override. For some broken Nvidia NF5 boards that require a timer override, but don't have HPET @@ -861,17 +865,19 @@ 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, 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. - idle=mwait. On systems which support MONITOR/MWAIT but the kernel chose - 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. + Format: idle=poll, idle=mwait, idle=halt, idle=nomwait + Poll forces a polling idle loop that can slightly + improve the performance of waking up a idle CPU, but + will use a lot of power and make the system run hot. + Not recommended. + idle=mwait: On systems which support MONITOR/MWAIT but + the kernel chose 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 + 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. @@ -1053,8 +1059,8 @@ and is between 256 and 4096 characters. It is defined in the file lapic [X86-32,APIC] Enable the local APIC even if BIOS disabled it. - lapic_timer_c2_ok [X86-32,x86-64,APIC] trust the local apic timer in - C2 power state. + lapic_timer_c2_ok [X86-32,x86-64,APIC] trust the local apic timer + in C2 power state. libata.dma= [LIBATA] DMA control libata.dma=0 Disable all PATA and SATA DMA @@ -2242,7 +2248,8 @@ and is between 256 and 4096 characters. It is defined in the file thermal.psv= [HW,ACPI] -1: disable all passive trip points - <degrees C>: override all passive trip points to this value + <degrees C>: override all passive trip points to this + value thermal.tzp= [HW,ACPI] Specify global default ACPI thermal zone polling rate |
