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  1. Kernel Parameters
  2. ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
  3. The following is a consolidated list of the kernel parameters as implemented
  4. (mostly) by the __setup() macro and sorted into English Dictionary order
  5. (defined as ignoring all punctuation and sorting digits before letters in a
  6. case insensitive manner), and with descriptions where known.
  7. Module parameters for loadable modules are specified only as the
  8. parameter name with optional '=' and value as appropriate, such as:
  9. modprobe usbcore blinkenlights=1
  10. Module parameters for modules that are built into the kernel image
  11. are specified on the kernel command line with the module name plus
  12. '.' plus parameter name, with '=' and value if appropriate, such as:
  13. usbcore.blinkenlights=1
  14. This document may not be entirely up to date and comprehensive. The command
  15. "modinfo -p ${modulename}" shows a current list of all parameters of a loadable
  16. module. Loadable modules, after being loaded into the running kernel, also
  17. reveal their parameters in /sys/module/${modulename}/parameters/. Some of these
  18. parameters may be changed at runtime by the command
  19. "echo -n ${value} > /sys/module/${modulename}/parameters/${parm}".
  20. The parameters listed below are only valid if certain kernel build options were
  21. enabled and if respective hardware is present. The text in square brackets at
  22. the beginning of each description states the restrictions within which a
  23. parameter is applicable:
  24. ACPI ACPI support is enabled.
  25. AGP AGP (Accelerated Graphics Port) is enabled.
  26. ALSA ALSA sound support is enabled.
  27. APIC APIC support is enabled.
  28. APM Advanced Power Management support is enabled.
  29. AVR32 AVR32 architecture is enabled.
  30. AX25 Appropriate AX.25 support is enabled.
  31. BLACKFIN Blackfin architecture is enabled.
  32. DRM Direct Rendering Management support is enabled.
  33. EDD BIOS Enhanced Disk Drive Services (EDD) is enabled
  34. EFI EFI Partitioning (GPT) is enabled
  35. EIDE EIDE/ATAPI support is enabled.
  36. FB The frame buffer device is enabled.
  37. HW Appropriate hardware is enabled.
  38. IA-64 IA-64 architecture is enabled.
  39. IOSCHED More than one I/O scheduler is enabled.
  40. IP_PNP IP DHCP, BOOTP, or RARP is enabled.
  41. ISAPNP ISA PnP code is enabled.
  42. ISDN Appropriate ISDN support is enabled.
  43. JOY Appropriate joystick support is enabled.
  44. LIBATA Libata driver is enabled
  45. LP Printer support is enabled.
  46. LOOP Loopback device support is enabled.
  47. M68k M68k architecture is enabled.
  48. These options have more detailed description inside of
  49. Documentation/m68k/kernel-options.txt.
  50. MCA MCA bus support is enabled.
  51. MDA MDA console support is enabled.
  52. MOUSE Appropriate mouse support is enabled.
  53. MSI Message Signaled Interrupts (PCI).
  54. MTD MTD (Memory Technology Device) support is enabled.
  55. NET Appropriate network support is enabled.
  56. NUMA NUMA support is enabled.
  57. GENERIC_TIME The generic timeofday code is enabled.
  58. NFS Appropriate NFS support is enabled.
  59. OSS OSS sound support is enabled.
  60. PV_OPS A paravirtualized kernel is enabled.
  61. PARIDE The ParIDE (parallel port IDE) subsystem is enabled.
  62. PARISC The PA-RISC architecture is enabled.
  63. PCI PCI bus support is enabled.
  64. PCIE PCI Express support is enabled.
  65. PCMCIA The PCMCIA subsystem is enabled.
  66. PNP Plug & Play support is enabled.
  67. PPC PowerPC architecture is enabled.
  68. PPT Parallel port support is enabled.
  69. PS2 Appropriate PS/2 support is enabled.
  70. RAM RAM disk support is enabled.
  71. ROOTPLUG The example Root Plug LSM is enabled.
  72. S390 S390 architecture is enabled.
  73. SCSI Appropriate SCSI support is enabled.
  74. A lot of drivers has their options described inside of
  75. Documentation/scsi/.
  76. SECURITY Different security models are enabled.
  77. SELINUX SELinux support is enabled.
  78. SERIAL Serial support is enabled.
  79. SH SuperH architecture is enabled.
  80. SMP The kernel is an SMP kernel.
  81. SPARC Sparc architecture is enabled.
  82. SWSUSP Software suspend (hibernation) is enabled.
  83. SUSPEND System suspend states are enabled.
  84. TS Appropriate touchscreen support is enabled.
  85. USB USB support is enabled.
  86. USBHID USB Human Interface Device support is enabled.
  87. V4L Video For Linux support is enabled.
  88. VGA The VGA console has been enabled.
  89. VT Virtual terminal support is enabled.
  90. WDT Watchdog support is enabled.
  91. XT IBM PC/XT MFM hard disk support is enabled.
  92. X86-32 X86-32, aka i386 architecture is enabled.
  93. X86-64 X86-64 architecture is enabled.
  94. More X86-64 boot options can be found in
  95. Documentation/x86_64/boot-options.txt .
  96. In addition, the following text indicates that the option:
  97. BUGS= Relates to possible processor bugs on the said processor.
  98. KNL Is a kernel start-up parameter.
  99. BOOT Is a boot loader parameter.
  100. Parameters denoted with BOOT are actually interpreted by the boot
  101. loader, and have no meaning to the kernel directly.
  102. Do not modify the syntax of boot loader parameters without extreme
  103. need or coordination with <Documentation/i386/boot.txt>.
  104. There are also arch-specific kernel-parameters not documented here.
  105. See for example <Documentation/x86_64/boot-options.txt>.
  106. Note that ALL kernel parameters listed below are CASE SENSITIVE, and that
  107. a trailing = on the name of any parameter states that that parameter will
  108. be entered as an environment variable, whereas its absence indicates that
  109. it will appear as a kernel argument readable via /proc/cmdline by programs
  110. running once the system is up.
  111. The number of kernel parameters is not limited, but the length of the
  112. complete command line (parameters including spaces etc.) is limited to
  113. a fixed number of characters. This limit depends on the architecture
  114. and is between 256 and 4096 characters. It is defined in the file
  115. ./include/asm/setup.h as COMMAND_LINE_SIZE.
  116. acpi= [HW,ACPI,X86-64,i386]
  117. Advanced Configuration and Power Interface
  118. Format: { force | off | ht | strict | noirq }
  119. force -- enable ACPI if default was off
  120. off -- disable ACPI if default was on
  121. noirq -- do not use ACPI for IRQ routing
  122. ht -- run only enough ACPI to enable Hyper Threading
  123. strict -- Be less tolerant of platforms that are not
  124. strictly ACPI specification compliant.
  125. See also Documentation/power/pm.txt, pci=noacpi
  126. acpi_apic_instance= [ACPI, IOAPIC]
  127. Format: <int>
  128. 2: use 2nd APIC table, if available
  129. 1,0: use 1st APIC table
  130. default: 0
  131. acpi_sleep= [HW,ACPI] Sleep options
  132. Format: { s3_bios, s3_mode, s3_beep, s4_nohwsig, old_ordering }
  133. See Documentation/power/video.txt for s3_bios and s3_mode.
  134. s3_beep is for debugging; it makes the PC's speaker beep
  135. as soon as the kernel's real-mode entry point is called.
  136. s4_nohwsig prevents ACPI hardware signature from being
  137. used during resume from hibernation.
  138. old_ordering causes the ACPI 1.0 ordering of the _PTS
  139. control method, wrt putting devices into low power
  140. states, to be enforced (the ACPI 2.0 ordering of _PTS is
  141. used by default).
  142. acpi_sci= [HW,ACPI] ACPI System Control Interrupt trigger mode
  143. Format: { level | edge | high | low }
  144. acpi_irq_balance [HW,ACPI]
  145. ACPI will balance active IRQs
  146. default in APIC mode
  147. acpi_irq_nobalance [HW,ACPI]
  148. ACPI will not move active IRQs (default)
  149. default in PIC mode
  150. acpi_irq_pci= [HW,ACPI] If irq_balance, clear listed IRQs for
  151. use by PCI
  152. Format: <irq>,<irq>...
  153. acpi_irq_isa= [HW,ACPI] If irq_balance, mark listed IRQs used by ISA
  154. Format: <irq>,<irq>...
  155. acpi_no_auto_ssdt [HW,ACPI] Disable automatic loading of SSDT
  156. acpi_os_name= [HW,ACPI] Tell ACPI BIOS the name of the OS
  157. Format: To spoof as Windows 98: ="Microsoft Windows"
  158. acpi_osi= [HW,ACPI] Modify list of supported OS interface strings
  159. acpi_osi="string1" # add string1 -- only one string
  160. acpi_osi="!string2" # remove built-in string2
  161. acpi_osi= # disable all strings
  162. acpi_serialize [HW,ACPI] force serialization of AML methods
  163. acpi_skip_timer_override [HW,ACPI]
  164. Recognize and ignore IRQ0/pin2 Interrupt Override.
  165. For broken nForce2 BIOS resulting in XT-PIC timer.
  166. acpi_use_timer_override [HW,ACPI}
  167. Use timer override. For some broken Nvidia NF5 boards
  168. that require a timer override, but don't have
  169. HPET
  170. acpi.debug_layer= [HW,ACPI]
  171. Format: <int>
  172. Each bit of the <int> indicates an ACPI debug layer,
  173. 1: enable, 0: disable. It is useful for boot time
  174. debugging. After system has booted up, it can be set
  175. via /sys/module/acpi/parameters/debug_layer.
  176. CONFIG_ACPI_DEBUG must be enabled for this to produce any output.
  177. Available bits (add the numbers together) to enable debug output
  178. for specific parts of the ACPI subsystem:
  179. 0x01 utilities 0x02 hardware 0x04 events 0x08 tables
  180. 0x10 namespace 0x20 parser 0x40 dispatcher
  181. 0x80 executer 0x100 resources 0x200 acpica debugger
  182. 0x400 os services 0x800 acpica disassembler.
  183. The number can be in decimal or prefixed with 0x in hex.
  184. Warning: Many of these options can produce a lot of
  185. output and make your system unusable. Be very careful.
  186. acpi.debug_level= [HW,ACPI]
  187. Format: <int>
  188. Each bit of the <int> indicates an ACPI debug level,
  189. 1: enable, 0: disable. It is useful for boot time
  190. debugging. After system has booted up, it can be set
  191. via /sys/module/acpi/parameters/debug_level.
  192. CONFIG_ACPI_DEBUG must be enabled for this to produce any output.
  193. Available bits (add the numbers together) to enable different
  194. debug output levels of the ACPI subsystem:
  195. 0x01 error 0x02 warn 0x04 init 0x08 debug object
  196. 0x10 info 0x20 init names 0x40 parse 0x80 load
  197. 0x100 dispatch 0x200 execute 0x400 names 0x800 operation region
  198. 0x1000 bfield 0x2000 tables 0x4000 values 0x8000 objects
  199. 0x10000 resources 0x20000 user requests 0x40000 package.
  200. The number can be in decimal or prefixed with 0x in hex.
  201. Warning: Many of these options can produce a lot of
  202. output and make your system unusable. Be very careful.
  203. acpi_pm_good [X86-32,X86-64]
  204. Override the pmtimer bug detection: force the kernel
  205. to assume that this machine's pmtimer latches its value
  206. and always returns good values.
  207. agp= [AGP]
  208. { off | try_unsupported }
  209. off: disable AGP support
  210. try_unsupported: try to drive unsupported chipsets
  211. (may crash computer or cause data corruption)
  212. enable_timer_pin_1 [i386,x86-64]
  213. Enable PIN 1 of APIC timer
  214. Can be useful to work around chipset bugs
  215. (in particular on some ATI chipsets).
  216. The kernel tries to set a reasonable default.
  217. disable_timer_pin_1 [i386,x86-64]
  218. Disable PIN 1 of APIC timer
  219. Can be useful to work around chipset bugs.
  220. ad1848= [HW,OSS]
  221. Format: <io>,<irq>,<dma>,<dma2>,<type>
  222. advansys= [HW,SCSI]
  223. See header of drivers/scsi/advansys.c.
  224. advwdt= [HW,WDT] Advantech WDT
  225. Format: <iostart>,<iostop>
  226. aedsp16= [HW,OSS] Audio Excel DSP 16
  227. Format: <io>,<irq>,<dma>,<mss_io>,<mpu_io>,<mpu_irq>
  228. See also header of sound/oss/aedsp16.c.
  229. aha152x= [HW,SCSI]
  230. See Documentation/scsi/aha152x.txt.
  231. aha1542= [HW,SCSI]
  232. Format: <portbase>[,<buson>,<busoff>[,<dmaspeed>]]
  233. aic7xxx= [HW,SCSI]
  234. See Documentation/scsi/aic7xxx.txt.
  235. aic79xx= [HW,SCSI]
  236. See Documentation/scsi/aic79xx.txt.
  237. amd_iommu= [HW,X86-84]
  238. Pass parameters to the AMD IOMMU driver in the system.
  239. Possible values are:
  240. isolate - enable device isolation (each device, as far
  241. as possible, will get its own protection
  242. domain)
  243. fullflush - enable flushing of IO/TLB entries when
  244. they are unmapped. Otherwise they are
  245. flushed before they will be reused, which
  246. is a lot of faster
  247. amd_iommu_size= [HW,X86-64]
  248. Define the size of the aperture for the AMD IOMMU
  249. driver. Possible values are:
  250. '32M', '64M' (default), '128M', '256M', '512M', '1G'
  251. amijoy.map= [HW,JOY] Amiga joystick support
  252. Map of devices attached to JOY0DAT and JOY1DAT
  253. Format: <a>,<b>
  254. See also Documentation/kernel/input/joystick.txt
  255. analog.map= [HW,JOY] Analog joystick and gamepad support
  256. Specifies type or capabilities of an analog joystick
  257. connected to one of 16 gameports
  258. Format: <type1>,<type2>,..<type16>
  259. apc= [HW,SPARC]
  260. Power management functions (SPARCstation-4/5 + deriv.)
  261. Format: noidle
  262. Disable APC CPU standby support. SPARCstation-Fox does
  263. not play well with APC CPU idle - disable it if you have
  264. APC and your system crashes randomly.
  265. apic= [APIC,i386] Advanced Programmable Interrupt Controller
  266. Change the output verbosity whilst booting
  267. Format: { quiet (default) | verbose | debug }
  268. Change the amount of debugging information output
  269. when initialising the APIC and IO-APIC components.
  270. apm= [APM] Advanced Power Management
  271. See header of arch/x86/kernel/apm_32.c.
  272. arcrimi= [HW,NET] ARCnet - "RIM I" (entirely mem-mapped) cards
  273. Format: <io>,<irq>,<nodeID>
  274. ataflop= [HW,M68k]
  275. atarimouse= [HW,MOUSE] Atari Mouse
  276. atascsi= [HW,SCSI] Atari SCSI
  277. atkbd.extra= [HW] Enable extra LEDs and keys on IBM RapidAccess,
  278. EzKey and similar keyboards
  279. atkbd.reset= [HW] Reset keyboard during initialization
  280. atkbd.set= [HW] Select keyboard code set
  281. Format: <int> (2 = AT (default), 3 = PS/2)
  282. atkbd.scroll= [HW] Enable scroll wheel on MS Office and similar
  283. keyboards
  284. atkbd.softraw= [HW] Choose between synthetic and real raw mode
  285. Format: <bool> (0 = real, 1 = synthetic (default))
  286. atkbd.softrepeat= [HW]
  287. Use software keyboard repeat
  288. autotest [IA64]
  289. baycom_epp= [HW,AX25]
  290. Format: <io>,<mode>
  291. baycom_par= [HW,AX25] BayCom Parallel Port AX.25 Modem
  292. Format: <io>,<mode>
  293. See header of drivers/net/hamradio/baycom_par.c.
  294. baycom_ser_fdx= [HW,AX25]
  295. BayCom Serial Port AX.25 Modem (Full Duplex Mode)
  296. Format: <io>,<irq>,<mode>[,<baud>]
  297. See header of drivers/net/hamradio/baycom_ser_fdx.c.
  298. baycom_ser_hdx= [HW,AX25]
  299. BayCom Serial Port AX.25 Modem (Half Duplex Mode)
  300. Format: <io>,<irq>,<mode>
  301. See header of drivers/net/hamradio/baycom_ser_hdx.c.
  302. boot_delay= Milliseconds to delay each printk during boot.
  303. Values larger than 10 seconds (10000) are changed to
  304. no delay (0).
  305. Format: integer
  306. bootmem_debug [KNL] Enable bootmem allocator debug messages.
  307. bttv.card= [HW,V4L] bttv (bt848 + bt878 based grabber cards)
  308. bttv.radio= Most important insmod options are available as
  309. kernel args too.
  310. bttv.pll= See Documentation/video4linux/bttv/Insmod-options
  311. bttv.tuner= and Documentation/video4linux/bttv/CARDLIST
  312. BusLogic= [HW,SCSI]
  313. See drivers/scsi/BusLogic.c, comment before function
  314. BusLogic_ParseDriverOptions().
  315. c101= [NET] Moxa C101 synchronous serial card
  316. cachesize= [BUGS=X86-32] Override level 2 CPU cache size detection.
  317. Sometimes CPU hardware bugs make them report the cache
  318. size incorrectly. The kernel will attempt work arounds
  319. to fix known problems, but for some CPUs it is not
  320. possible to determine what the correct size should be.
  321. This option provides an override for these situations.
  322. security= [SECURITY] Choose a security module to enable at boot.
  323. If this boot parameter is not specified, only the first
  324. security module asking for security registration will be
  325. loaded. An invalid security module name will be treated
  326. as if no module has been chosen.
  327. capability.disable=
  328. [SECURITY] Disable capabilities. This would normally
  329. be used only if an alternative security model is to be
  330. configured. Potentially dangerous and should only be
  331. used if you are entirely sure of the consequences.
  332. ccw_timeout_log [S390]
  333. See Documentation/s390/CommonIO for details.
  334. cgroup_disable= [KNL] Disable a particular controller
  335. Format: {name of the controller(s) to disable}
  336. {Currently supported controllers - "memory"}
  337. checkreqprot [SELINUX] Set initial checkreqprot flag value.
  338. Format: { "0" | "1" }
  339. See security/selinux/Kconfig help text.
  340. 0 -- check protection applied by kernel (includes
  341. any implied execute protection).
  342. 1 -- check protection requested by application.
  343. Default value is set via a kernel config option.
  344. Value can be changed at runtime via
  345. /selinux/checkreqprot.
  346. cio_ignore= [S390]
  347. See Documentation/s390/CommonIO for details.
  348. clock= [BUGS=X86-32, HW] gettimeofday clocksource override.
  349. [Deprecated]
  350. Forces specified clocksource (if available) to be used
  351. when calculating gettimeofday(). If specified
  352. clocksource is not available, it defaults to PIT.
  353. Format: { pit | tsc | cyclone | pmtmr }
  354. clocksource= [GENERIC_TIME] Override the default clocksource
  355. Format: <string>
  356. Override the default clocksource and use the clocksource
  357. with the name specified.
  358. Some clocksource names to choose from, depending on
  359. the platform:
  360. [all] jiffies (this is the base, fallback clocksource)
  361. [ACPI] acpi_pm
  362. [ARM] imx_timer1,OSTS,netx_timer,mpu_timer2,
  363. pxa_timer,timer3,32k_counter,timer0_1
  364. [AVR32] avr32
  365. [X86-32] pit,hpet,tsc,vmi-timer;
  366. scx200_hrt on Geode; cyclone on IBM x440
  367. [MIPS] MIPS
  368. [PARISC] cr16
  369. [S390] tod
  370. [SH] SuperH
  371. [SPARC64] tick
  372. [X86-64] hpet,tsc
  373. clearcpuid=BITNUM [X86]
  374. Disable CPUID feature X for the kernel. See
  375. include/asm-x86/cpufeature.h for the valid bit numbers.
  376. Note the Linux specific bits are not necessarily
  377. stable over kernel options, but the vendor specific
  378. ones should be.
  379. Also note that user programs calling CPUID directly
  380. or using the feature without checking anything
  381. will still see it. This just prevents it from
  382. being used by the kernel or shown in /proc/cpuinfo.
  383. Also note the kernel might malfunction if you disable
  384. some critical bits.
  385. code_bytes [IA32/X86_64] How many bytes of object code to print
  386. in an oops report.
  387. Range: 0 - 8192
  388. Default: 64
  389. hpet= [X86-32,HPET] option to control HPET usage
  390. Format: { enable (default) | disable | force }
  391. disable: disable HPET and use PIT instead
  392. force: allow force enabled of undocumented chips (ICH4,
  393. VIA, nVidia)
  394. com20020= [HW,NET] ARCnet - COM20020 chipset
  395. Format:
  396. <io>[,<irq>[,<nodeID>[,<backplane>[,<ckp>[,<timeout>]]]]]
  397. com90io= [HW,NET] ARCnet - COM90xx chipset (IO-mapped buffers)
  398. Format: <io>[,<irq>]
  399. com90xx= [HW,NET]
  400. ARCnet - COM90xx chipset (memory-mapped buffers)
  401. Format: <io>[,<irq>[,<memstart>]]
  402. condev= [HW,S390] console device
  403. conmode=
  404. console= [KNL] Output console device and options.
  405. tty<n> Use the virtual console device <n>.
  406. ttyS<n>[,options]
  407. ttyUSB0[,options]
  408. Use the specified serial port. The options are of
  409. the form "bbbbpnf", where "bbbb" is the baud rate,
  410. "p" is parity ("n", "o", or "e"), "n" is number of
  411. bits, and "f" is flow control ("r" for RTS or
  412. omit it). Default is "9600n8".
  413. See Documentation/serial-console.txt for more
  414. information. See
  415. Documentation/networking/netconsole.txt for an
  416. alternative.
  417. uart[8250],io,<addr>[,options]
  418. uart[8250],mmio,<addr>[,options]
  419. Start an early, polled-mode console on the 8250/16550
  420. UART at the specified I/O port or MMIO address,
  421. switching to the matching ttyS device later. The
  422. options are the same as for ttyS, above.
  423. If the device connected to the port is not a TTY but a braille
  424. device, prepend "brl," before the device type, for instance
  425. console=brl,ttyS0
  426. For now, only VisioBraille is supported.
  427. earlycon= [KNL] Output early console device and options.
  428. uart[8250],io,<addr>[,options]
  429. uart[8250],mmio,<addr>[,options]
  430. Start an early, polled-mode console on the 8250/16550
  431. UART at the specified I/O port or MMIO address.
  432. The options are the same as for ttyS, above.
  433. no_console_suspend
  434. [HW] Never suspend the console
  435. Disable suspending of consoles during suspend and
  436. hibernate operations. Once disabled, debugging
  437. messages can reach various consoles while the rest
  438. of the system is being put to sleep (ie, while
  439. debugging driver suspend/resume hooks). This may
  440. not work reliably with all consoles, but is known
  441. to work with serial and VGA consoles.
  442. cpcihp_generic= [HW,PCI] Generic port I/O CompactPCI driver
  443. Format:
  444. <first_slot>,<last_slot>,<port>,<enum_bit>[,<debug>]
  445. crashkernel=nn[KMG]@ss[KMG]
  446. [KNL] Reserve a chunk of physical memory to
  447. hold a kernel to switch to with kexec on panic.
  448. crashkernel=range1:size1[,range2:size2,...][@offset]
  449. [KNL] Same as above, but depends on the memory
  450. in the running system. The syntax of range is
  451. start-[end] where start and end are both
  452. a memory unit (amount[KMG]). See also
  453. Documentation/kdump/kdump.txt for a example.
  454. cs4232= [HW,OSS]
  455. Format: <io>,<irq>,<dma>,<dma2>,<mpuio>,<mpuirq>
  456. cs89x0_dma= [HW,NET]
  457. Format: <dma>
  458. cs89x0_media= [HW,NET]
  459. Format: { rj45 | aui | bnc }
  460. dasd= [HW,NET]
  461. See header of drivers/s390/block/dasd_devmap.c.
  462. db9.dev[2|3]= [HW,JOY] Multisystem joystick support via parallel port
  463. (one device per port)
  464. Format: <port#>,<type>
  465. See also Documentation/input/joystick-parport.txt
  466. debug [KNL] Enable kernel debugging (events log level).
  467. debug_locks_verbose=
  468. [KNL] verbose self-tests
  469. Format=<0|1>
  470. Print debugging info while doing the locking API
  471. self-tests.
  472. We default to 0 (no extra messages), setting it to
  473. 1 will print _a lot_ more information - normally
  474. only useful to kernel developers.
  475. debug_objects [KNL] Enable object debugging
  476. debugpat [X86] Enable PAT debugging
  477. decnet.addr= [HW,NET]
  478. Format: <area>[,<node>]
  479. See also Documentation/networking/decnet.txt.
  480. vt.default_blu= [VT]
  481. Format: <blue0>,<blue1>,<blue2>,...,<blue15>
  482. Change the default blue palette of the console.
  483. This is a 16-member array composed of values
  484. ranging from 0-255.
  485. vt.default_grn= [VT]
  486. Format: <green0>,<green1>,<green2>,...,<green15>
  487. Change the default green palette of the console.
  488. This is a 16-member array composed of values
  489. ranging from 0-255.
  490. vt.default_red= [VT]
  491. Format: <red0>,<red1>,<red2>,...,<red15>
  492. Change the default red palette of the console.
  493. This is a 16-member array composed of values
  494. ranging from 0-255.
  495. vt.default_utf8=
  496. [VT]
  497. Format=<0|1>
  498. Set system-wide default UTF-8 mode for all tty's.
  499. Default is 1, i.e. UTF-8 mode is enabled for all
  500. newly opened terminals.
  501. dhash_entries= [KNL]
  502. Set number of hash buckets for dentry cache.
  503. digi= [HW,SERIAL]
  504. IO parameters + enable/disable command.
  505. digiepca= [HW,SERIAL]
  506. See drivers/char/README.epca and
  507. Documentation/digiepca.txt.
  508. disable_mtrr_cleanup [X86]
  509. enable_mtrr_cleanup [X86]
  510. The kernel tries to adjust MTRR layout from continuous
  511. to discrete, to make X server driver able to add WB
  512. entry later. This parameter enables/disables that.
  513. mtrr_chunk_size=nn[KMG] [X86]
  514. used for mtrr cleanup. It is largest continous chunk
  515. that could hold holes aka. UC entries.
  516. mtrr_gran_size=nn[KMG] [X86]
  517. Used for mtrr cleanup. It is granularity of mtrr block.
  518. Default is 1.
  519. Large value could prevent small alignment from
  520. using up MTRRs.
  521. mtrr_spare_reg_nr=n [X86]
  522. Format: <integer>
  523. Range: 0,7 : spare reg number
  524. Default : 1
  525. Used for mtrr cleanup. It is spare mtrr entries number.
  526. Set to 2 or more if your graphical card needs more.
  527. disable_mtrr_trim [X86, Intel and AMD only]
  528. By default the kernel will trim any uncacheable
  529. memory out of your available memory pool based on
  530. MTRR settings. This parameter disables that behavior,
  531. possibly causing your machine to run very slowly.
  532. dmasound= [HW,OSS] Sound subsystem buffers
  533. dscc4.setup= [NET]
  534. dtc3181e= [HW,SCSI]
  535. earlyprintk= [X86-32,X86-64,SH,BLACKFIN]
  536. earlyprintk=vga
  537. earlyprintk=serial[,ttySn[,baudrate]]
  538. Append ",keep" to not disable it when the real console
  539. takes over.
  540. Only vga or serial at a time, not both.
  541. Currently only ttyS0 and ttyS1 are supported.
  542. Interaction with the standard serial driver is not
  543. very good.
  544. The VGA output is eventually overwritten by the real
  545. console.
  546. eata= [HW,SCSI]
  547. edd= [EDD]
  548. Format: {"off" | "on" | "skip[mbr]"}
  549. eisa_irq_edge= [PARISC,HW]
  550. See header of drivers/parisc/eisa.c.
  551. elanfreq= [X86-32]
  552. See comment before function elanfreq_setup() in
  553. arch/x86/kernel/cpu/cpufreq/elanfreq.c.
  554. elevator= [IOSCHED]
  555. Format: {"anticipatory" | "cfq" | "deadline" | "noop"}
  556. See Documentation/block/as-iosched.txt and
  557. Documentation/block/deadline-iosched.txt for details.
  558. elfcorehdr= [X86-32, X86_64]
  559. Specifies physical address of start of kernel core
  560. image elf header. Generally kexec loader will
  561. pass this option to capture kernel.
  562. See Documentation/kdump/kdump.txt for details.
  563. enforcing [SELINUX] Set initial enforcing status.
  564. Format: {"0" | "1"}
  565. See security/selinux/Kconfig help text.
  566. 0 -- permissive (log only, no denials).
  567. 1 -- enforcing (deny and log).
  568. Default value is 0.
  569. Value can be changed at runtime via /selinux/enforce.
  570. es1371= [HW,OSS]
  571. Format: <spdif>,[<nomix>,[<amplifier>]]
  572. See also header of sound/oss/es1371.c.
  573. ether= [HW,NET] Ethernet cards parameters
  574. This option is obsoleted by the "netdev=" option, which
  575. has equivalent usage. See its documentation for details.
  576. eurwdt= [HW,WDT] Eurotech CPU-1220/1410 onboard watchdog.
  577. Format: <io>[,<irq>]
  578. failslab=
  579. fail_page_alloc=
  580. fail_make_request=[KNL]
  581. General fault injection mechanism.
  582. Format: <interval>,<probability>,<space>,<times>
  583. See also /Documentation/fault-injection/.
  584. fd_mcs= [HW,SCSI]
  585. See header of drivers/scsi/fd_mcs.c.
  586. fdomain= [HW,SCSI]
  587. See header of drivers/scsi/fdomain.c.
  588. floppy= [HW]
  589. See Documentation/floppy.txt.
  590. force_pal_cache_flush
  591. [IA-64] Avoid check_sal_cache_flush which may hang on
  592. buggy SAL_CACHE_FLUSH implementations. Using this
  593. parameter will force ia64_sal_cache_flush to call
  594. ia64_pal_cache_flush instead of SAL_CACHE_FLUSH.
  595. gamecon.map[2|3]=
  596. [HW,JOY] Multisystem joystick and NES/SNES/PSX pad
  597. support via parallel port (up to 5 devices per port)
  598. Format: <port#>,<pad1>,<pad2>,<pad3>,<pad4>,<pad5>
  599. See also Documentation/input/joystick-parport.txt
  600. gamma= [HW,DRM]
  601. gart_fix_e820= [X86_64] disable the fix e820 for K8 GART
  602. Format: off | on
  603. default: on
  604. gdth= [HW,SCSI]
  605. See header of drivers/scsi/gdth.c.
  606. gpt [EFI] Forces disk with valid GPT signature but
  607. invalid Protective MBR to be treated as GPT.
  608. gvp11= [HW,SCSI]
  609. hashdist= [KNL,NUMA] Large hashes allocated during boot
  610. are distributed across NUMA nodes. Defaults on
  611. for IA-64, off otherwise.
  612. Format: 0 | 1 (for off | on)
  613. hcl= [IA-64] SGI's Hardware Graph compatibility layer
  614. hd= [EIDE] (E)IDE hard drive subsystem geometry
  615. Format: <cyl>,<head>,<sect>
  616. highmem=nn[KMG] [KNL,BOOT] forces the highmem zone to have an exact
  617. size of <nn>. This works even on boxes that have no
  618. highmem otherwise. This also works to reduce highmem
  619. size on bigger boxes.
  620. highres= [KNL] Enable/disable high resolution timer mode.
  621. Valid parameters: "on", "off"
  622. Default: "on"
  623. hisax= [HW,ISDN]
  624. See Documentation/isdn/README.HiSax.
  625. hugepages= [HW,X86-32,IA-64] HugeTLB pages to allocate at boot.
  626. hugepagesz= [HW,IA-64,PPC,X86-64] The size of the HugeTLB pages.
  627. On x86-64 and powerpc, this option can be specified
  628. multiple times interleaved with hugepages= to reserve
  629. huge pages of different sizes. Valid pages sizes on
  630. x86-64 are 2M (when the CPU supports "pse") and 1G
  631. (when the CPU supports the "pdpe1gb" cpuinfo flag)
  632. Note that 1GB pages can only be allocated at boot time
  633. using hugepages= and not freed afterwards.
  634. default_hugepagesz=
  635. [same as hugepagesz=] The size of the default
  636. HugeTLB page size. This is the size represented by
  637. the legacy /proc/ hugepages APIs, used for SHM, and
  638. default size when mounting hugetlbfs filesystems.
  639. Defaults to the default architecture's huge page size
  640. if not specified.
  641. i8042.direct [HW] Put keyboard port into non-translated mode
  642. i8042.dumbkbd [HW] Pretend that controller can only read data from
  643. keyboard and cannot control its state
  644. (Don't attempt to blink the leds)
  645. i8042.noaux [HW] Don't check for auxiliary (== mouse) port
  646. i8042.nokbd [HW] Don't check/create keyboard port
  647. i8042.noloop [HW] Disable the AUX Loopback command while probing
  648. for the AUX port
  649. i8042.nomux [HW] Don't check presence of an active multiplexing
  650. controller
  651. i8042.nopnp [HW] Don't use ACPIPnP / PnPBIOS to discover KBD/AUX
  652. controllers
  653. i8042.panicblink=
  654. [HW] Frequency with which keyboard LEDs should blink
  655. when kernel panics (default is 0.5 sec)
  656. i8042.reset [HW] Reset the controller during init and cleanup
  657. i8042.unlock [HW] Unlock (ignore) the keylock
  658. i810= [HW,DRM]
  659. i8k.ignore_dmi [HW] Continue probing hardware even if DMI data
  660. indicates that the driver is running on unsupported
  661. hardware.
  662. i8k.force [HW] Activate i8k driver even if SMM BIOS signature
  663. does not match list of supported models.
  664. i8k.power_status
  665. [HW] Report power status in /proc/i8k
  666. (disabled by default)
  667. i8k.restricted [HW] Allow controlling fans only if SYS_ADMIN
  668. capability is set.
  669. ibmmcascsi= [HW,MCA,SCSI] IBM MicroChannel SCSI adapter
  670. See Documentation/mca.txt.
  671. icn= [HW,ISDN]
  672. Format: <io>[,<membase>[,<icn_id>[,<icn_id2>]]]
  673. ide= [HW] (E)IDE subsystem
  674. Format: ide=nodma or ide=doubler
  675. See Documentation/ide/ide.txt.
  676. idebus= [HW] (E)IDE subsystem - VLB/PCI bus speed
  677. See Documentation/ide/ide.txt.
  678. idle= [X86]
  679. Format: idle=poll or idle=mwait, idle=halt, idle=nomwait
  680. Poll forces a polling idle loop that can slightly improves the performance
  681. of waking up a idle CPU, but will use a lot of power and make the system
  682. run hot. Not recommended.
  683. idle=mwait. On systems which support MONITOR/MWAIT but the kernel chose
  684. to not use it because it doesn't save as much power as a normal idle
  685. loop use the MONITOR/MWAIT idle loop anyways. Performance should be the same
  686. as idle=poll.
  687. idle=halt. Halt is forced to be used for CPU idle.
  688. In such case C2/C3 won't be used again.
  689. idle=nomwait. Disable mwait for CPU C-states
  690. ide-pci-generic.all-generic-ide [HW] (E)IDE subsystem
  691. Claim all unknown PCI IDE storage controllers.
  692. ignore_loglevel [KNL]
  693. Ignore loglevel setting - this will print /all/
  694. kernel messages to the console. Useful for debugging.
  695. ihash_entries= [KNL]
  696. Set number of hash buckets for inode cache.
  697. in2000= [HW,SCSI]
  698. See header of drivers/scsi/in2000.c.
  699. init= [KNL]
  700. Format: <full_path>
  701. Run specified binary instead of /sbin/init as init
  702. process.
  703. initcall_debug [KNL] Trace initcalls as they are executed. Useful
  704. for working out where the kernel is dying during
  705. startup.
  706. initrd= [BOOT] Specify the location of the initial ramdisk
  707. inport.irq= [HW] Inport (ATI XL and Microsoft) busmouse driver
  708. Format: <irq>
  709. inttest= [IA64]
  710. iommu= [x86]
  711. off
  712. force
  713. noforce
  714. biomerge
  715. panic
  716. nopanic
  717. merge
  718. nomerge
  719. forcesac
  720. soft
  721. intel_iommu= [DMAR] Intel IOMMU driver (DMAR) option
  722. off
  723. Disable intel iommu driver.
  724. igfx_off [Default Off]
  725. By default, gfx is mapped as normal device. If a gfx
  726. device has a dedicated DMAR unit, the DMAR unit is
  727. bypassed by not enabling DMAR with this option. In
  728. this case, gfx device will use physical address for
  729. DMA.
  730. forcedac [x86_64]
  731. With this option iommu will not optimize to look
  732. for io virtual address below 32 bit forcing dual
  733. address cycle on pci bus for cards supporting greater
  734. than 32 bit addressing. The default is to look
  735. for translation below 32 bit and if not available
  736. then look in the higher range.
  737. strict [Default Off]
  738. With this option on every unmap_single operation will
  739. result in a hardware IOTLB flush operation as opposed
  740. to batching them for performance.
  741. io_delay= [X86-32,X86-64] I/O delay method
  742. 0x80
  743. Standard port 0x80 based delay
  744. 0xed
  745. Alternate port 0xed based delay (needed on some systems)
  746. udelay
  747. Simple two microseconds delay
  748. none
  749. No delay
  750. io7= [HW] IO7 for Marvel based alpha systems
  751. See comment before marvel_specify_io7 in
  752. arch/alpha/kernel/core_marvel.c.
  753. ip= [IP_PNP]
  754. See Documentation/filesystems/nfsroot.txt.
  755. ip2= [HW] Set IO/IRQ pairs for up to 4 IntelliPort boards
  756. See comment before ip2_setup() in
  757. drivers/char/ip2/ip2base.c.
  758. ips= [HW,SCSI] Adaptec / IBM ServeRAID controller
  759. See header of drivers/scsi/ips.c.
  760. ports= [IP_VS_FTP] IPVS ftp helper module
  761. Default is 21.
  762. Up to 8 (IP_VS_APP_MAX_PORTS) ports
  763. may be specified.
  764. Format: <port>,<port>....
  765. irqfixup [HW]
  766. When an interrupt is not handled search all handlers
  767. for it. Intended to get systems with badly broken
  768. firmware running.
  769. irqpoll [HW]
  770. When an interrupt is not handled search all handlers
  771. for it. Also check all handlers each timer
  772. interrupt. Intended to get systems with badly broken
  773. firmware running.
  774. isapnp= [ISAPNP]
  775. Format: <RDP>,<reset>,<pci_scan>,<verbosity>
  776. isolcpus= [KNL,SMP] Isolate CPUs from the general scheduler.
  777. Format:
  778. <cpu number>,...,<cpu number>
  779. or
  780. <cpu number>-<cpu number> (must be a positive range in ascending order)
  781. or a mixture
  782. <cpu number>,...,<cpu number>-<cpu number>
  783. This option can be used to specify one or more CPUs
  784. to isolate from the general SMP balancing and scheduling
  785. algorithms. The only way to move a process onto or off
  786. an "isolated" CPU is via the CPU affinity syscalls.
  787. <cpu number> begins at 0 and the maximum value is
  788. "number of CPUs in system - 1".
  789. This option is the preferred way to isolate CPUs. The
  790. alternative -- manually setting the CPU mask of all
  791. tasks in the system -- can cause problems and
  792. suboptimal load balancer performance.
  793. iucv= [HW,NET]
  794. js= [HW,JOY] Analog joystick
  795. See Documentation/input/joystick.txt.
  796. kernelcore=nn[KMG] [KNL,X86-32,IA-64,PPC,X86-64] This parameter
  797. specifies the amount of memory usable by the kernel
  798. for non-movable allocations. The requested amount is
  799. spread evenly throughout all nodes in the system. The
  800. remaining memory in each node is used for Movable
  801. pages. In the event, a node is too small to have both
  802. kernelcore and Movable pages, kernelcore pages will
  803. take priority and other nodes will have a larger number
  804. of kernelcore pages. The Movable zone is used for the
  805. allocation of pages that may be reclaimed or moved
  806. by the page migration subsystem. This means that
  807. HugeTLB pages may not be allocated from this zone.
  808. Note that allocations like PTEs-from-HighMem still
  809. use the HighMem zone if it exists, and the Normal
  810. zone if it does not.
  811. movablecore=nn[KMG] [KNL,X86-32,IA-64,PPC,X86-64] This parameter
  812. is similar to kernelcore except it specifies the
  813. amount of memory used for migratable allocations.
  814. If both kernelcore and movablecore is specified,
  815. then kernelcore will be at *least* the specified
  816. value but may be more. If movablecore on its own
  817. is specified, the administrator must be careful
  818. that the amount of memory usable for all allocations
  819. is not too small.
  820. keepinitrd [HW,ARM]
  821. kstack=N [X86-32,X86-64] Print N words from the kernel stack
  822. in oops dumps.
  823. kgdboc= [HW] kgdb over consoles.
  824. Requires a tty driver that supports console polling.
  825. (only serial suported for now)
  826. Format: <serial_device>[,baud]
  827. kmac= [MIPS] korina ethernet MAC address.
  828. Configure the RouterBoard 532 series on-chip
  829. Ethernet adapter MAC address.
  830. l2cr= [PPC]
  831. l3cr= [PPC]
  832. lapic [X86-32,APIC] Enable the local APIC even if BIOS
  833. disabled it.
  834. lapic_timer_c2_ok [X86-32,x86-64,APIC] trust the local apic timer in
  835. C2 power state.
  836. libata.dma= [LIBATA] DMA control
  837. libata.dma=0 Disable all PATA and SATA DMA
  838. libata.dma=1 PATA and SATA Disk DMA only
  839. libata.dma=2 ATAPI (CDROM) DMA only
  840. libata.dma=4 Compact Flash DMA only
  841. Combinations also work, so libata.dma=3 enables DMA
  842. for disks and CDROMs, but not CFs.
  843. libata.noacpi [LIBATA] Disables use of ACPI in libata suspend/resume
  844. when set.
  845. Format: <int>
  846. libata.force= [LIBATA] Force configurations. The format is comma
  847. separated list of "[ID:]VAL" where ID is
  848. PORT[:DEVICE]. PORT and DEVICE are decimal numbers
  849. matching port, link or device. Basically, it matches
  850. the ATA ID string printed on console by libata. If
  851. the whole ID part is omitted, the last PORT and DEVICE
  852. values are used. If ID hasn't been specified yet, the
  853. configuration applies to all ports, links and devices.
  854. If only DEVICE is omitted, the parameter applies to
  855. the port and all links and devices behind it. DEVICE
  856. number of 0 either selects the first device or the
  857. first fan-out link behind PMP device. It does not
  858. select the host link. DEVICE number of 15 selects the
  859. host link and device attached to it.
  860. The VAL specifies the configuration to force. As long
  861. as there's no ambiguity shortcut notation is allowed.
  862. For example, both 1.5 and 1.5G would work for 1.5Gbps.
  863. The following configurations can be forced.
  864. * Cable type: 40c, 80c, short40c, unk, ign or sata.
  865. Any ID with matching PORT is used.
  866. * SATA link speed limit: 1.5Gbps or 3.0Gbps.
  867. * Transfer mode: pio[0-7], mwdma[0-4] and udma[0-7].
  868. udma[/][16,25,33,44,66,100,133] notation is also
  869. allowed.
  870. * [no]ncq: Turn on or off NCQ.
  871. * nohrst, nosrst, norst: suppress hard, soft
  872. and both resets.
  873. If there are multiple matching configurations changing
  874. the same attribute, the last one is used.
  875. load_ramdisk= [RAM] List of ramdisks to load from floppy
  876. See Documentation/ramdisk.txt.
  877. lockd.nlm_grace_period=P [NFS] Assign grace period.
  878. Format: <integer>
  879. lockd.nlm_tcpport=N [NFS] Assign TCP port.
  880. Format: <integer>
  881. lockd.nlm_timeout=T [NFS] Assign timeout value.
  882. Format: <integer>
  883. lockd.nlm_udpport=M [NFS] Assign UDP port.
  884. Format: <integer>
  885. logibm.irq= [HW,MOUSE] Logitech Bus Mouse Driver
  886. Format: <irq>
  887. loglevel= All Kernel Messages with a loglevel smaller than the
  888. console loglevel will be printed to the console. It can
  889. also be changed with klogd or other programs. The
  890. loglevels are defined as follows:
  891. 0 (KERN_EMERG) system is unusable
  892. 1 (KERN_ALERT) action must be taken immediately
  893. 2 (KERN_CRIT) critical conditions
  894. 3 (KERN_ERR) error conditions
  895. 4 (KERN_WARNING) warning conditions
  896. 5 (KERN_NOTICE) normal but significant condition
  897. 6 (KERN_INFO) informational
  898. 7 (KERN_DEBUG) debug-level messages
  899. log_buf_len=n Sets the size of the printk ring buffer, in bytes.
  900. Format: { n | nk | nM }
  901. n must be a power of two. The default size
  902. is set in the kernel config file.
  903. logo.nologo [FB] Disables display of the built-in Linux logo.
  904. This may be used to provide more screen space for
  905. kernel log messages and is useful when debugging
  906. kernel boot problems.
  907. lp=0 [LP] Specify parallel ports to use, e.g,
  908. lp=port[,port...] lp=none,parport0 (lp0 not configured, lp1 uses
  909. lp=reset first parallel port). 'lp=0' disables the
  910. lp=auto printer driver. 'lp=reset' (which can be
  911. specified in addition to the ports) causes
  912. attached printers to be reset. Using
  913. lp=port1,port2,... specifies the parallel ports
  914. to associate lp devices with, starting with
  915. lp0. A port specification may be 'none' to skip
  916. that lp device, or a parport name such as
  917. 'parport0'. Specifying 'lp=auto' instead of a
  918. port specification list means that device IDs
  919. from each port should be examined, to see if
  920. an IEEE 1284-compliant printer is attached; if
  921. so, the driver will manage that printer.
  922. See also header of drivers/char/lp.c.
  923. lpj=n [KNL]
  924. Sets loops_per_jiffy to given constant, thus avoiding
  925. time-consuming boot-time autodetection (up to 250 ms per
  926. CPU). 0 enables autodetection (default). To determine
  927. the correct value for your kernel, boot with normal
  928. autodetection and see what value is printed. Note that
  929. on SMP systems the preset will be applied to all CPUs,
  930. which is likely to cause problems if your CPUs need
  931. significantly divergent settings. An incorrect value
  932. will cause delays in the kernel to be wrong, leading to
  933. unpredictable I/O errors and other breakage. Although
  934. unlikely, in the extreme case this might damage your
  935. hardware.
  936. ltpc= [NET]
  937. Format: <io>,<irq>,<dma>
  938. mac5380= [HW,SCSI] Format:
  939. <can_queue>,<cmd_per_lun>,<sg_tablesize>,<hostid>,<use_tags>
  940. machvec= [IA64] Force the use of a particular machine-vector
  941. (machvec) in a generic kernel.
  942. Example: machvec=hpzx1_swiotlb
  943. max_loop= [LOOP] Maximum number of loopback devices that can
  944. be mounted
  945. Format: <1-256>
  946. maxcpus= [SMP] Maximum number of processors that an SMP kernel
  947. should make use of. maxcpus=n : n >= 0 limits the
  948. kernel to using 'n' processors. n=0 is a special case,
  949. it is equivalent to "nosmp", which also disables
  950. the IO APIC.
  951. max_addr=[KMG] [KNL,BOOT,ia64] All physical memory greater than or
  952. equal to this physical address is ignored.
  953. max_luns= [SCSI] Maximum number of LUNs to probe.
  954. Should be between 1 and 2^32-1.
  955. max_report_luns=
  956. [SCSI] Maximum number of LUNs received.
  957. Should be between 1 and 16384.
  958. mcatest= [IA-64]
  959. mce [X86-32] Machine Check Exception
  960. mce=option [X86-64] See Documentation/x86_64/boot-options.txt
  961. md= [HW] RAID subsystems devices and level
  962. See Documentation/md.txt.
  963. mdacon= [MDA]
  964. Format: <first>,<last>
  965. Specifies range of consoles to be captured by the MDA.
  966. mem=nn[KMG] [KNL,BOOT] Force usage of a specific amount of memory
  967. Amount of memory to be used when the kernel is not able
  968. to see the whole system memory or for test.
  969. [X86-32] Use together with memmap= to avoid physical
  970. address space collisions. Without memmap= PCI devices
  971. could be placed at addresses belonging to unused RAM.
  972. mem=nopentium [BUGS=X86-32] Disable usage of 4MB pages for kernel
  973. memory.
  974. memmap=exactmap [KNL,X86-32,X86_64] Enable setting of an exact
  975. E820 memory map, as specified by the user.
  976. Such memmap=exactmap lines can be constructed based on
  977. BIOS output or other requirements. See the memmap=nn@ss
  978. option description.
  979. memmap=nn[KMG]@ss[KMG]
  980. [KNL] Force usage of a specific region of memory
  981. Region of memory to be used, from ss to ss+nn.
  982. memmap=nn[KMG]#ss[KMG]
  983. [KNL,ACPI] Mark specific memory as ACPI data.
  984. Region of memory to be used, from ss to ss+nn.
  985. memmap=nn[KMG]$ss[KMG]
  986. [KNL,ACPI] Mark specific memory as reserved.
  987. Region of memory to be used, from ss to ss+nn.
  988. Example: Exclude memory from 0x18690000-0x1869ffff
  989. memmap=64K$0x18690000
  990. or
  991. memmap=0x10000$0x18690000
  992. memtest= [KNL,X86] Enable memtest
  993. Format: <integer>
  994. range: 0,4 : pattern number
  995. default : 0 <disable>
  996. meye.*= [HW] Set MotionEye Camera parameters
  997. See Documentation/video4linux/meye.txt.
  998. mfgpt_irq= [IA-32] Specify the IRQ to use for the
  999. Multi-Function General Purpose Timers on AMD Geode
  1000. platforms.
  1001. mfgptfix [X86-32] Fix MFGPT timers on AMD Geode platforms when
  1002. the BIOS has incorrectly applied a workaround. TinyBIOS
  1003. version 0.98 is known to be affected, 0.99 fixes the
  1004. problem by letting the user disable the workaround.
  1005. mga= [HW,DRM]
  1006. mminit_loglevel=
  1007. [KNL] When CONFIG_DEBUG_MEMORY_INIT is set, this
  1008. parameter allows control of the logging verbosity for
  1009. the additional memory initialisation checks. A value
  1010. of 0 disables mminit logging and a level of 4 will
  1011. log everything. Information is printed at KERN_DEBUG
  1012. so loglevel=8 may also need to be specified.
  1013. mousedev.tap_time=
  1014. [MOUSE] Maximum time between finger touching and
  1015. leaving touchpad surface for touch to be considered
  1016. a tap and be reported as a left button click (for
  1017. touchpads working in absolute mode only).
  1018. Format: <msecs>
  1019. mousedev.xres= [MOUSE] Horizontal screen resolution, used for devices
  1020. reporting absolute coordinates, such as tablets
  1021. mousedev.yres= [MOUSE] Vertical screen resolution, used for devices
  1022. reporting absolute coordinates, such as tablets
  1023. mpu401= [HW,OSS]
  1024. Format: <io>,<irq>
  1025. MTD_Partition= [MTD]
  1026. Format: <name>,<region-number>,<size>,<offset>
  1027. MTD_Region= [MTD] Format:
  1028. <name>,<region-number>[,<base>,<size>,<buswidth>,<altbuswidth>]
  1029. mtdparts= [MTD]
  1030. See drivers/mtd/cmdlinepart.c.
  1031. mtdset= [ARM]
  1032. ARM/S3C2412 JIVE boot control
  1033. See arch/arm/mach-s3c2412/mach-jive.c
  1034. mtouchusb.raw_coordinates=
  1035. [HW] Make the MicroTouch USB driver use raw coordinates
  1036. ('y', default) or cooked coordinates ('n')
  1037. n2= [NET] SDL Inc. RISCom/N2 synchronous serial card
  1038. NCR_D700= [HW,SCSI]
  1039. See header of drivers/scsi/NCR_D700.c.
  1040. ncr5380= [HW,SCSI]
  1041. ncr53c400= [HW,SCSI]
  1042. ncr53c400a= [HW,SCSI]
  1043. ncr53c406a= [HW,SCSI]
  1044. ncr53c8xx= [HW,SCSI]
  1045. netdev= [NET] Network devices parameters
  1046. Format: <irq>,<io>,<mem_start>,<mem_end>,<name>
  1047. Note that mem_start is often overloaded to mean
  1048. something different and driver-specific.
  1049. This usage is only documented in each driver source
  1050. file if at all.
  1051. nf_conntrack.acct=
  1052. [NETFILTER] Enable connection tracking flow accounting
  1053. 0 to disable accounting
  1054. 1 to enable accounting
  1055. Default value depends on CONFIG_NF_CT_ACCT that is
  1056. going to be removed in 2.6.29.
  1057. nfsaddrs= [NFS]
  1058. See Documentation/filesystems/nfsroot.txt.
  1059. nfsroot= [NFS] nfs root filesystem for disk-less boxes.
  1060. See Documentation/filesystems/nfsroot.txt.
  1061. nfs.callback_tcpport=
  1062. [NFS] set the TCP port on which the NFSv4 callback
  1063. channel should listen.
  1064. nfs.idmap_cache_timeout=
  1065. [NFS] set the maximum lifetime for idmapper cache
  1066. entries.
  1067. nfs.enable_ino64=
  1068. [NFS] enable 64-bit inode numbers.
  1069. If zero, the NFS client will fake up a 32-bit inode
  1070. number for the readdir() and stat() syscalls instead
  1071. of returning the full 64-bit number.
  1072. The default is to return 64-bit inode numbers.
  1073. nmi_debug= [KNL,AVR32] Specify one or more actions to take
  1074. when a NMI is triggered.
  1075. Format: [state][,regs][,debounce][,die]
  1076. nmi_watchdog= [KNL,BUGS=X86-32] Debugging features for SMP kernels
  1077. no387 [BUGS=X86-32] Tells the kernel to use the 387 maths
  1078. emulation library even if a 387 maths coprocessor
  1079. is present.
  1080. noaliencache [MM, NUMA, SLAB] Disables the allocation of alien
  1081. caches in the slab allocator. Saves per-node memory,
  1082. but will impact performance.
  1083. noalign [KNL,ARM]
  1084. noapic [SMP,APIC] Tells the kernel to not make use of any
  1085. IOAPICs that may be present in the system.
  1086. nobats [PPC] Do not use BATs for mapping kernel lowmem
  1087. on "Classic" PPC cores.
  1088. nocache [ARM]
  1089. nodelayacct [KNL] Disable per-task delay accounting
  1090. nodisconnect [HW,SCSI,M68K] Disables SCSI disconnects.
  1091. noefi [X86-32,X86-64] Disable EFI runtime services support.
  1092. noexec [IA-64]
  1093. noexec [X86-32,X86-64]
  1094. On X86-32 available only on PAE configured kernels.
  1095. noexec=on: enable non-executable mappings (default)
  1096. noexec=off: disable non-executable mappings
  1097. noexec32 [X86-64]
  1098. This affects only 32-bit executables.
  1099. noexec32=on: enable non-executable mappings (default)
  1100. read doesn't imply executable mappings
  1101. noexec32=off: disable non-executable mappings
  1102. read implies executable mappings
  1103. nofxsr [BUGS=X86-32] Disables x86 floating point extended
  1104. register save and restore. The kernel will only save
  1105. legacy floating-point registers on task switch.
  1106. noclflush [BUGS=X86] Don't use the CLFLUSH instruction
  1107. nohlt [BUGS=ARM]
  1108. no-hlt [BUGS=X86-32] Tells the kernel that the hlt
  1109. instruction doesn't work correctly and not to
  1110. use it.
  1111. nohalt [IA-64] Tells the kernel not to use the power saving
  1112. function PAL_HALT_LIGHT when idle. This increases
  1113. power-consumption. On the positive side, it reduces
  1114. interrupt wake-up latency, which may improve performance
  1115. in certain environments such as networked servers or
  1116. real-time systems.
  1117. nohz= [KNL] Boottime enable/disable dynamic ticks
  1118. Valid arguments: on, off
  1119. Default: on
  1120. noirqbalance [X86-32,SMP,KNL] Disable kernel irq balancing
  1121. noirqdebug [X86-32] Disables the code which attempts to detect and
  1122. disable unhandled interrupt sources.
  1123. no_timer_check [X86-32,X86_64,APIC] Disables the code which tests for
  1124. broken timer IRQ sources.
  1125. noisapnp [ISAPNP] Disables ISA PnP code.
  1126. noinitrd [RAM] Tells the kernel not to load any configured
  1127. initial RAM disk.
  1128. nointroute [IA-64]
  1129. nojitter [IA64] Disables jitter checking for ITC timers.
  1130. nolapic [X86-32,APIC] Do not enable or use the local APIC.
  1131. nolapic_timer [X86-32,APIC] Do not use the local APIC timer.
  1132. noltlbs [PPC] Do not use large page/tlb entries for kernel
  1133. lowmem mapping on PPC40x.
  1134. nomca [IA-64] Disable machine check abort handling
  1135. nomce [X86-32] Machine Check Exception
  1136. nomfgpt [X86-32] Disable Multi-Function General Purpose
  1137. Timer usage (for AMD Geode machines).
  1138. noreplace-paravirt [X86-32,PV_OPS] Don't patch paravirt_ops
  1139. noreplace-smp [X86-32,SMP] Don't replace SMP instructions
  1140. with UP alternatives
  1141. noresidual [PPC] Don't use residual data on PReP machines.
  1142. noresume [SWSUSP] Disables resume and restores original swap
  1143. space.
  1144. no-scroll [VGA] Disables scrollback.
  1145. This is required for the Braillex ib80-piezo Braille
  1146. reader made by F.H. Papenmeier (Germany).
  1147. nosbagart [IA-64]
  1148. nosep [BUGS=X86-32] Disables x86 SYSENTER/SYSEXIT support.
  1149. nosmp [SMP] Tells an SMP kernel to act as a UP kernel,
  1150. and disable the IO APIC. legacy for "maxcpus=0".
  1151. nosoftlockup [KNL] Disable the soft-lockup detector.
  1152. nosync [HW,M68K] Disables sync negotiation for all devices.
  1153. notsc [BUGS=X86-32] Disable Time Stamp Counter
  1154. nousb [USB] Disable the USB subsystem
  1155. nowb [ARM]
  1156. nptcg= [IA64] Override max number of concurrent global TLB
  1157. purges which is reported from either PAL_VM_SUMMARY or
  1158. SAL PALO.
  1159. numa_zonelist_order= [KNL, BOOT] Select zonelist order for NUMA.
  1160. one of ['zone', 'node', 'default'] can be specified
  1161. This can be set from sysctl after boot.
  1162. See Documentation/sysctl/vm.txt for details.
  1163. nr_uarts= [SERIAL] maximum number of UARTs to be registered.
  1164. olpc_ec_timeout= [OLPC] ms delay when issuing EC commands
  1165. Rather than timing out after 20 ms if an EC
  1166. command is not properly ACKed, override the length
  1167. of the timeout. We have interrupts disabled while
  1168. waiting for the ACK, so if this is set too high
  1169. interrupts *may* be lost!
  1170. opl3= [HW,OSS]
  1171. Format: <io>
  1172. oprofile.timer= [HW]
  1173. Use timer interrupt instead of performance counters
  1174. osst= [HW,SCSI] SCSI Tape Driver
  1175. Format: <buffer_size>,<write_threshold>
  1176. See also Documentation/scsi/st.txt.
  1177. panic= [KNL] Kernel behaviour on panic
  1178. Format: <timeout>
  1179. parkbd.port= [HW] Parallel port number the keyboard adapter is
  1180. connected to, default is 0.
  1181. Format: <parport#>
  1182. parkbd.mode= [HW] Parallel port keyboard adapter mode of operation,
  1183. 0 for XT, 1 for AT (default is AT).
  1184. Format: <mode>
  1185. parport= [HW,PPT] Specify parallel ports. 0 disables.
  1186. Format: { 0 | auto | 0xBBB[,IRQ[,DMA]] }
  1187. Use 'auto' to force the driver to use any
  1188. IRQ/DMA settings detected (the default is to
  1189. ignore detected IRQ/DMA settings because of
  1190. possible conflicts). You can specify the base
  1191. address, IRQ, and DMA settings; IRQ and DMA
  1192. should be numbers, or 'auto' (for using detected
  1193. settings on that particular port), or 'nofifo'
  1194. (to avoid using a FIFO even if it is detected).
  1195. Parallel ports are assigned in the order they
  1196. are specified on the command line, starting
  1197. with parport0.
  1198. parport_init_mode= [HW,PPT]
  1199. Configure VIA parallel port to operate in
  1200. a specific mode. This is necessary on Pegasos
  1201. computer where firmware has no options for setting
  1202. up parallel port mode and sets it to spp.
  1203. Currently this function knows 686a and 8231 chips.
  1204. Format: [spp|ps2|epp|ecp|ecpepp]
  1205. pas2= [HW,OSS] Format:
  1206. <io>,<irq>,<dma>,<dma16>,<sb_io>,<sb_irq>,<sb_dma>,<sb_dma16>
  1207. pas16= [HW,SCSI]
  1208. See header of drivers/scsi/pas16.c.
  1209. pause_on_oops=
  1210. Halt all CPUs after the first oops has been printed for
  1211. the specified number of seconds. This is to be used if
  1212. your oopses keep scrolling off the screen.
  1213. pcbit= [HW,ISDN]
  1214. pcd. [PARIDE]
  1215. See header of drivers/block/paride/pcd.c.
  1216. See also Documentation/paride.txt.
  1217. pci=option[,option...] [PCI] various PCI subsystem options:
  1218. off [X86-32] don't probe for the PCI bus
  1219. bios [X86-32] force use of PCI BIOS, don't access
  1220. the hardware directly. Use this if your machine
  1221. has a non-standard PCI host bridge.
  1222. nobios [X86-32] disallow use of PCI BIOS, only direct
  1223. hardware access methods are allowed. Use this
  1224. if you experience crashes upon bootup and you
  1225. suspect they are caused by the BIOS.
  1226. conf1 [X86-32] Force use of PCI Configuration
  1227. Mechanism 1.
  1228. conf2 [X86-32] Force use of PCI Configuration
  1229. Mechanism 2.
  1230. noaer [PCIE] If the PCIEAER kernel config parameter is
  1231. enabled, this kernel boot option can be used to
  1232. disable the use of PCIE advanced error reporting.
  1233. nodomains [PCI] Disable support for multiple PCI
  1234. root domains (aka PCI segments, in ACPI-speak).
  1235. nommconf [X86-32,X86_64] Disable use of MMCONFIG for PCI
  1236. Configuration
  1237. nomsi [MSI] If the PCI_MSI kernel config parameter is
  1238. enabled, this kernel boot option can be used to
  1239. disable the use of MSI interrupts system-wide.
  1240. biosirq [X86-32] Use PCI BIOS calls to get the interrupt
  1241. routing table. These calls are known to be buggy
  1242. on several machines and they hang the machine
  1243. when used, but on other computers it's the only
  1244. way to get the interrupt routing table. Try
  1245. this option if the kernel is unable to allocate
  1246. IRQs or discover secondary PCI buses on your
  1247. motherboard.
  1248. rom [X86-32] Assign address space to expansion ROMs.
  1249. Use with caution as certain devices share
  1250. address decoders between ROMs and other
  1251. resources.
  1252. norom [X86-32,X86_64] Do not assign address space to
  1253. expansion ROMs that do not already have
  1254. BIOS assigned address ranges.
  1255. irqmask=0xMMMM [X86-32] Set a bit mask of IRQs allowed to be
  1256. assigned automatically to PCI devices. You can
  1257. make the kernel exclude IRQs of your ISA cards
  1258. this way.
  1259. pirqaddr=0xAAAAA [X86-32] Specify the physical address
  1260. of the PIRQ table (normally generated
  1261. by the BIOS) if it is outside the
  1262. F0000h-100000h range.
  1263. lastbus=N [X86-32] Scan all buses thru bus #N. Can be
  1264. useful if the kernel is unable to find your
  1265. secondary buses and you want to tell it
  1266. explicitly which ones they are.
  1267. assign-busses [X86-32] Always assign all PCI bus
  1268. numbers ourselves, overriding
  1269. whatever the firmware may have done.
  1270. usepirqmask [X86-32] Honor the possible IRQ mask stored
  1271. in the BIOS $PIR table. This is needed on
  1272. some systems with broken BIOSes, notably
  1273. some HP Pavilion N5400 and Omnibook XE3
  1274. notebooks. This will have no effect if ACPI
  1275. IRQ routing is enabled.
  1276. noacpi [X86-32] Do not use ACPI for IRQ routing
  1277. or for PCI scanning.
  1278. use_crs [X86-32] Use _CRS for PCI resource
  1279. allocation.
  1280. routeirq Do IRQ routing for all PCI devices.
  1281. This is normally done in pci_enable_device(),
  1282. so this option is a temporary workaround
  1283. for broken drivers that don't call it.
  1284. skip_isa_align [X86] do not align io start addr, so can
  1285. handle more pci cards
  1286. firmware [ARM] Do not re-enumerate the bus but instead
  1287. just use the configuration from the
  1288. bootloader. This is currently used on
  1289. IXP2000 systems where the bus has to be
  1290. configured a certain way for adjunct CPUs.
  1291. noearly [X86] Don't do any early type 1 scanning.
  1292. This might help on some broken boards which
  1293. machine check when some devices' config space
  1294. is read. But various workarounds are disabled
  1295. and some IOMMU drivers will not work.
  1296. bfsort Sort PCI devices into breadth-first order.
  1297. This sorting is done to get a device
  1298. order compatible with older (<= 2.4) kernels.
  1299. nobfsort Don't sort PCI devices into breadth-first order.
  1300. cbiosize=nn[KMG] The fixed amount of bus space which is
  1301. reserved for the CardBus bridge's IO window.
  1302. The default value is 256 bytes.
  1303. cbmemsize=nn[KMG] The fixed amount of bus space which is
  1304. reserved for the CardBus bridge's memory
  1305. window. The default value is 64 megabytes.
  1306. pcmv= [HW,PCMCIA] BadgePAD 4
  1307. pd. [PARIDE]
  1308. See Documentation/paride.txt.
  1309. pdcchassis= [PARISC,HW] Disable/Enable PDC Chassis Status codes at
  1310. boot time.
  1311. Format: { 0 | 1 }
  1312. See arch/parisc/kernel/pdc_chassis.c
  1313. pf. [PARIDE]
  1314. See Documentation/paride.txt.
  1315. pg. [PARIDE]
  1316. See Documentation/paride.txt.
  1317. pirq= [SMP,APIC] Manual mp-table setup
  1318. See Documentation/i386/IO-APIC.txt.
  1319. plip= [PPT,NET] Parallel port network link
  1320. Format: { parport<nr> | timid | 0 }
  1321. See also Documentation/parport.txt.
  1322. pmtmr= [X86] Manual setup of pmtmr I/O Port.
  1323. Override pmtimer IOPort with a hex value.
  1324. e.g. pmtmr=0x508
  1325. pnpacpi= [ACPI]
  1326. { off }
  1327. pnpbios= [ISAPNP]
  1328. { on | off | curr | res | no-curr | no-res }
  1329. pnp_reserve_irq=
  1330. [ISAPNP] Exclude IRQs for the autoconfiguration
  1331. pnp_reserve_dma=
  1332. [ISAPNP] Exclude DMAs for the autoconfiguration
  1333. pnp_reserve_io= [ISAPNP] Exclude I/O ports for the autoconfiguration
  1334. Ranges are in pairs (I/O port base and size).
  1335. pnp_reserve_mem=
  1336. [ISAPNP] Exclude memory regions for the
  1337. autoconfiguration.
  1338. Ranges are in pairs (memory base and size).
  1339. print-fatal-signals=
  1340. [KNL] debug: print fatal signals
  1341. print-fatal-signals=1: print segfault info to
  1342. the kernel console.
  1343. default: off.
  1344. printk.time= Show timing data prefixed to each printk message line
  1345. Format: <bool> (1/Y/y=enable, 0/N/n=disable)
  1346. profile= [KNL] Enable kernel profiling via /proc/profile
  1347. Format: [schedule,]<number>
  1348. Param: "schedule" - profile schedule points.
  1349. Param: <number> - step/bucket size as a power of 2 for
  1350. statistical time based profiling.
  1351. Param: "sleep" - profile D-state sleeping (millisecs).
  1352. Requires CONFIG_SCHEDSTATS
  1353. Param: "kvm" - profile VM exits.
  1354. processor.max_cstate= [HW,ACPI]
  1355. Limit processor to maximum C-state
  1356. max_cstate=9 overrides any DMI blacklist limit.
  1357. processor.nocst [HW,ACPI]
  1358. Ignore the _CST method to determine C-states,
  1359. instead using the legacy FADT method
  1360. prompt_ramdisk= [RAM] List of RAM disks to prompt for floppy disk
  1361. before loading.
  1362. See Documentation/ramdisk.txt.
  1363. psmouse.proto= [HW,MOUSE] Highest PS2 mouse protocol extension to
  1364. probe for; one of (bare|imps|exps|lifebook|any).
  1365. psmouse.rate= [HW,MOUSE] Set desired mouse report rate, in reports
  1366. per second.
  1367. psmouse.resetafter= [HW,MOUSE]
  1368. Try to reset the device after so many bad packets
  1369. (0 = never).
  1370. psmouse.resolution=
  1371. [HW,MOUSE] Set desired mouse resolution, in dpi.
  1372. psmouse.smartscroll=
  1373. [HW,MOUSE] Controls Logitech smartscroll autorepeat.
  1374. 0 = disabled, 1 = enabled (default).
  1375. pss= [HW,OSS] Personal Sound System (ECHO ESC614)
  1376. Format:
  1377. <io>,<mss_io>,<mss_irq>,<mss_dma>,<mpu_io>,<mpu_irq>
  1378. pt. [PARIDE]
  1379. See Documentation/paride.txt.
  1380. pty.legacy_count=
  1381. [KNL] Number of legacy pty's. Overwrites compiled-in
  1382. default number.
  1383. quiet [KNL] Disable most log messages
  1384. r128= [HW,DRM]
  1385. raid= [HW,RAID]
  1386. See Documentation/md.txt.
  1387. ramdisk_blocksize= [RAM]
  1388. See Documentation/ramdisk.txt.
  1389. ramdisk_size= [RAM] Sizes of RAM disks in kilobytes
  1390. See Documentation/ramdisk.txt.
  1391. rcupdate.blimit= [KNL,BOOT]
  1392. Set maximum number of finished RCU callbacks to process
  1393. in one batch.
  1394. rcupdate.qhimark= [KNL,BOOT]
  1395. Set threshold of queued
  1396. RCU callbacks over which batch limiting is disabled.
  1397. rcupdate.qlowmark= [KNL,BOOT]
  1398. Set threshold of queued RCU callbacks below which
  1399. batch limiting is re-enabled.
  1400. rdinit= [KNL]
  1401. Format: <full_path>
  1402. Run specified binary instead of /init from the ramdisk,
  1403. used for early userspace startup. See initrd.
  1404. reboot= [BUGS=X86-32,BUGS=ARM,BUGS=IA-64] Rebooting mode
  1405. Format: <reboot_mode>[,<reboot_mode2>[,...]]
  1406. See arch/*/kernel/reboot.c or arch/*/kernel/process.c
  1407. relax_domain_level=
  1408. [KNL, SMP] Set scheduler's default relax_domain_level.
  1409. See Documentation/cpusets.txt.
  1410. reserve= [KNL,BUGS] Force the kernel to ignore some iomem area
  1411. reservetop= [X86-32]
  1412. Format: nn[KMG]
  1413. Reserves a hole at the top of the kernel virtual
  1414. address space.
  1415. reset_devices [KNL] Force drivers to reset the underlying device
  1416. during initialization.
  1417. resume= [SWSUSP]
  1418. Specify the partition device for software suspend
  1419. resume_offset= [SWSUSP]
  1420. Specify the offset from the beginning of the partition
  1421. given by "resume=" at which the swap header is located,
  1422. in <PAGE_SIZE> units (needed only for swap files).
  1423. See Documentation/power/swsusp-and-swap-files.txt
  1424. retain_initrd [RAM] Keep initrd memory after extraction
  1425. rhash_entries= [KNL,NET]
  1426. Set number of hash buckets for route cache
  1427. riscom8= [HW,SERIAL]
  1428. Format: <io_board1>[,<io_board2>[,...<io_boardN>]]
  1429. ro [KNL] Mount root device read-only on boot
  1430. root= [KNL] Root filesystem
  1431. rootdelay= [KNL] Delay (in seconds) to pause before attempting to
  1432. mount the root filesystem
  1433. rootflags= [KNL] Set root filesystem mount option string
  1434. rootfstype= [KNL] Set root filesystem type
  1435. rootwait [KNL] Wait (indefinitely) for root device to show up.
  1436. Useful for devices that are detected asynchronously
  1437. (e.g. USB and MMC devices).
  1438. root_plug.vendor_id=
  1439. [ROOTPLUG] Override the default vendor ID
  1440. root_plug.product_id=
  1441. [ROOTPLUG] Override the default product ID
  1442. root_plug.debug=
  1443. [ROOTPLUG] Enable debugging output
  1444. rw [KNL] Mount root device read-write on boot
  1445. S [KNL] Run init in single mode
  1446. sa1100ir [NET]
  1447. See drivers/net/irda/sa1100_ir.c.
  1448. sbni= [NET] Granch SBNI12 leased line adapter
  1449. sc1200wdt= [HW,WDT] SC1200 WDT (watchdog) driver
  1450. Format: <io>[,<timeout>[,<isapnp>]]
  1451. scsi_debug_*= [SCSI]
  1452. See drivers/scsi/scsi_debug.c.
  1453. scsi_default_dev_flags=
  1454. [SCSI] SCSI default device flags
  1455. Format: <integer>
  1456. scsi_dev_flags= [SCSI] Black/white list entry for vendor and model
  1457. Format: <vendor>:<model>:<flags>
  1458. (flags are integer value)
  1459. scsi_logging_level= [SCSI] a bit mask of logging levels
  1460. See drivers/scsi/scsi_logging.h for bits. Also
  1461. settable via sysctl at dev.scsi.logging_level
  1462. (/proc/sys/dev/scsi/logging_level).
  1463. There is also a nice 'scsi_logging_level' script in the
  1464. S390-tools package, available for download at
  1465. http://www-128.ibm.com/developerworks/linux/linux390/s390-tools-1.5.4.html
  1466. scsi_mod.scan= [SCSI] sync (default) scans SCSI busses as they are
  1467. discovered. async scans them in kernel threads,
  1468. allowing boot to proceed. none ignores them, expecting
  1469. user space to do the scan.
  1470. selinux [SELINUX] Disable or enable SELinux at boot time.
  1471. Format: { "0" | "1" }
  1472. See security/selinux/Kconfig help text.
  1473. 0 -- disable.
  1474. 1 -- enable.
  1475. Default value is set via kernel config option.
  1476. If enabled at boot time, /selinux/disable can be used
  1477. later to disable prior to initial policy load.
  1478. selinux_compat_net =
  1479. [SELINUX] Set initial selinux_compat_net flag value.
  1480. Format: { "0" | "1" }
  1481. 0 -- use new secmark-based packet controls
  1482. 1 -- use legacy packet controls
  1483. Default value is 0 (preferred).
  1484. Value can be changed at runtime via
  1485. /selinux/compat_net.
  1486. serialnumber [BUGS=X86-32]
  1487. shapers= [NET]
  1488. Maximal number of shapers.
  1489. show_msr= [x86] show boot-time MSR settings
  1490. Format: { <integer> }
  1491. Show boot-time (BIOS-initialized) MSR settings.
  1492. The parameter means the number of CPUs to show,
  1493. for example 1 means boot CPU only.
  1494. sim710= [SCSI,HW]
  1495. See header of drivers/scsi/sim710.c.
  1496. simeth= [IA-64]
  1497. simscsi=
  1498. slram= [HW,MTD]
  1499. slub_debug[=options[,slabs]] [MM, SLUB]
  1500. Enabling slub_debug allows one to determine the
  1501. culprit if slab objects become corrupted. Enabling
  1502. slub_debug can create guard zones around objects and
  1503. may poison objects when not in use. Also tracks the
  1504. last alloc / free. For more information see
  1505. Documentation/vm/slub.txt.
  1506. slub_max_order= [MM, SLUB]
  1507. Determines the maximum allowed order for slabs.
  1508. A high setting may cause OOMs due to memory
  1509. fragmentation. For more information see
  1510. Documentation/vm/slub.txt.
  1511. slub_min_objects= [MM, SLUB]
  1512. The minimum number of objects per slab. SLUB will
  1513. increase the slab order up to slub_max_order to
  1514. generate a sufficiently large slab able to contain
  1515. the number of objects indicated. The higher the number
  1516. of objects the smaller the overhead of tracking slabs
  1517. and the less frequently locks need to be acquired.
  1518. For more information see Documentation/vm/slub.txt.
  1519. slub_min_order= [MM, SLUB]
  1520. Determines the mininum page order for slabs. Must be
  1521. lower than slub_max_order.
  1522. For more information see Documentation/vm/slub.txt.
  1523. slub_nomerge [MM, SLUB]
  1524. Disable merging of slabs with similar size. May be
  1525. necessary if there is some reason to distinguish
  1526. allocs to different slabs. Debug options disable
  1527. merging on their own.
  1528. For more information see Documentation/vm/slub.txt.
  1529. smart2= [HW]
  1530. Format: <io1>[,<io2>[,...,<io8>]]
  1531. smp-alt-once [X86-32,SMP] On a hotplug CPU system, only
  1532. attempt to substitute SMP alternatives once at boot.
  1533. smsc-ircc2.nopnp [HW] Don't use PNP to discover SMC devices
  1534. smsc-ircc2.ircc_cfg= [HW] Device configuration I/O port
  1535. smsc-ircc2.ircc_sir= [HW] SIR base I/O port
  1536. smsc-ircc2.ircc_fir= [HW] FIR base I/O port
  1537. smsc-ircc2.ircc_irq= [HW] IRQ line
  1538. smsc-ircc2.ircc_dma= [HW] DMA channel
  1539. smsc-ircc2.ircc_transceiver= [HW] Transceiver type:
  1540. 0: Toshiba Satellite 1800 (GP data pin select)
  1541. 1: Fast pin select (default)
  1542. 2: ATC IRMode
  1543. snd-ad1816a= [HW,ALSA]
  1544. snd-ad1848= [HW,ALSA]
  1545. snd-ali5451= [HW,ALSA]
  1546. snd-als100= [HW,ALSA]
  1547. snd-als4000= [HW,ALSA]
  1548. snd-azt2320= [HW,ALSA]
  1549. snd-cmi8330= [HW,ALSA]
  1550. snd-cmipci= [HW,ALSA]
  1551. snd-cs4231= [HW,ALSA]
  1552. snd-cs4232= [HW,ALSA]
  1553. snd-cs4236= [HW,ALSA]
  1554. snd-cs4281= [HW,ALSA]
  1555. snd-cs46xx= [HW,ALSA]
  1556. snd-dt019x= [HW,ALSA]
  1557. snd-dummy= [HW,ALSA]
  1558. snd-emu10k1= [HW,ALSA]
  1559. snd-ens1370= [HW,ALSA]
  1560. snd-ens1371= [HW,ALSA]
  1561. snd-es968= [HW,ALSA]
  1562. snd-es1688= [HW,ALSA]
  1563. snd-es18xx= [HW,ALSA]
  1564. snd-es1938= [HW,ALSA]
  1565. snd-es1968= [HW,ALSA]
  1566. snd-fm801= [HW,ALSA]
  1567. snd-gusclassic= [HW,ALSA]
  1568. snd-gusextreme= [HW,ALSA]
  1569. snd-gusmax= [HW,ALSA]
  1570. snd-hdsp= [HW,ALSA]
  1571. snd-ice1712= [HW,ALSA]
  1572. snd-intel8x0= [HW,ALSA]
  1573. snd-interwave= [HW,ALSA]
  1574. snd-interwave-stb=
  1575. [HW,ALSA]
  1576. snd-korg1212= [HW,ALSA]
  1577. snd-maestro3= [HW,ALSA]
  1578. snd-mpu401= [HW,ALSA]
  1579. snd-mtpav= [HW,ALSA]
  1580. snd-nm256= [HW,ALSA]
  1581. snd-opl3sa2= [HW,ALSA]
  1582. snd-opti92x-ad1848=
  1583. [HW,ALSA]
  1584. snd-opti92x-cs4231=
  1585. [HW,ALSA]
  1586. snd-opti93x= [HW,ALSA]
  1587. snd-pmac= [HW,ALSA]
  1588. snd-rme32= [HW,ALSA]
  1589. snd-rme96= [HW,ALSA]
  1590. snd-rme9652= [HW,ALSA]
  1591. snd-sb8= [HW,ALSA]
  1592. snd-sb16= [HW,ALSA]
  1593. snd-sbawe= [HW,ALSA]
  1594. snd-serial= [HW,ALSA]
  1595. snd-sgalaxy= [HW,ALSA]
  1596. snd-sonicvibes= [HW,ALSA]
  1597. snd-sun-amd7930=
  1598. [HW,ALSA]
  1599. snd-sun-cs4231= [HW,ALSA]
  1600. snd-trident= [HW,ALSA]
  1601. snd-usb-audio= [HW,ALSA,USB]
  1602. snd-via82xx= [HW,ALSA]
  1603. snd-virmidi= [HW,ALSA]
  1604. snd-wavefront= [HW,ALSA]
  1605. snd-ymfpci= [HW,ALSA]
  1606. softlockup_panic=
  1607. [KNL] Should the soft-lockup detector generate panics.
  1608. sonypi.*= [HW] Sony Programmable I/O Control Device driver
  1609. See Documentation/sonypi.txt
  1610. specialix= [HW,SERIAL] Specialix multi-serial port adapter
  1611. See Documentation/specialix.txt.
  1612. spia_io_base= [HW,MTD]
  1613. spia_fio_base=
  1614. spia_pedr=
  1615. spia_peddr=
  1616. sscape= [HW,OSS]
  1617. Format: <io>,<irq>,<dma>,<mpu_io>,<mpu_irq>
  1618. st= [HW,SCSI] SCSI tape parameters (buffers, etc.)
  1619. See Documentation/scsi/st.txt.
  1620. sti= [PARISC,HW]
  1621. Format: <num>
  1622. Set the STI (builtin display/keyboard on the HP-PARISC
  1623. machines) console (graphic card) which should be used
  1624. as the initial boot-console.
  1625. See also comment in drivers/video/console/sticore.c.
  1626. sti_font= [HW]
  1627. See comment in drivers/video/console/sticore.c.
  1628. stifb= [HW]
  1629. Format: bpp:<bpp1>[:<bpp2>[:<bpp3>...]]
  1630. sunrpc.pool_mode=
  1631. [NFS]
  1632. Control how the NFS server code allocates CPUs to
  1633. service thread pools. Depending on how many NICs
  1634. you have and where their interrupts are bound, this
  1635. option will affect which CPUs will do NFS serving.
  1636. Note: this parameter cannot be changed while the
  1637. NFS server is running.
  1638. auto the server chooses an appropriate mode
  1639. automatically using heuristics
  1640. global a single global pool contains all CPUs
  1641. percpu one pool for each CPU
  1642. pernode one pool for each NUMA node (equivalent
  1643. to global on non-NUMA machines)
  1644. swiotlb= [IA-64] Number of I/O TLB slabs
  1645. switches= [HW,M68k]
  1646. sym53c416= [HW,SCSI]
  1647. See header of drivers/scsi/sym53c416.c.
  1648. sysrq_always_enabled
  1649. [KNL]
  1650. Ignore sysrq setting - this boot parameter will
  1651. neutralize any effect of /proc/sys/kernel/sysrq.
  1652. Useful for debugging.
  1653. t128= [HW,SCSI]
  1654. See header of drivers/scsi/t128.c.
  1655. tdfx= [HW,DRM]
  1656. test_suspend= [SUSPEND]
  1657. Specify "mem" (for Suspend-to-RAM) or "standby" (for
  1658. standby suspend) as the system sleep state to briefly
  1659. enter during system startup. The system is woken from
  1660. this state using a wakeup-capable RTC alarm.
  1661. thash_entries= [KNL,NET]
  1662. Set number of hash buckets for TCP connection
  1663. thermal.act= [HW,ACPI]
  1664. -1: disable all active trip points in all thermal zones
  1665. <degrees C>: override all lowest active trip points
  1666. thermal.crt= [HW,ACPI]
  1667. -1: disable all critical trip points in all thermal zones
  1668. <degrees C>: lower all critical trip points
  1669. thermal.nocrt= [HW,ACPI]
  1670. Set to disable actions on ACPI thermal zone
  1671. critical and hot trip points.
  1672. thermal.off= [HW,ACPI]
  1673. 1: disable ACPI thermal control
  1674. thermal.psv= [HW,ACPI]
  1675. -1: disable all passive trip points
  1676. <degrees C>: override all passive trip points to this value
  1677. thermal.tzp= [HW,ACPI]
  1678. Specify global default ACPI thermal zone polling rate
  1679. <deci-seconds>: poll all this frequency
  1680. 0: no polling (default)
  1681. tmscsim= [HW,SCSI]
  1682. See comment before function dc390_setup() in
  1683. drivers/scsi/tmscsim.c.
  1684. tp720= [HW,PS2]
  1685. trix= [HW,OSS] MediaTrix AudioTrix Pro
  1686. Format:
  1687. <io>,<irq>,<dma>,<dma2>,<sb_io>,<sb_irq>,<sb_dma>,<mpu_io>,<mpu_irq>
  1688. turbografx.map[2|3]= [HW,JOY]
  1689. TurboGraFX parallel port interface
  1690. Format:
  1691. <port#>,<js1>,<js2>,<js3>,<js4>,<js5>,<js6>,<js7>
  1692. See also Documentation/input/joystick-parport.txt
  1693. u14-34f= [HW,SCSI] UltraStor 14F/34F SCSI host adapter
  1694. See header of drivers/scsi/u14-34f.c.
  1695. uart401= [HW,OSS]
  1696. Format: <io>,<irq>
  1697. uart6850= [HW,OSS]
  1698. Format: <io>,<irq>
  1699. uhci-hcd.ignore_oc=
  1700. [USB] Ignore overcurrent events (default N).
  1701. Some badly-designed motherboards generate lots of
  1702. bogus events, for ports that aren't wired to
  1703. anything. Set this parameter to avoid log spamming.
  1704. Note that genuine overcurrent events won't be
  1705. reported either.
  1706. unknown_nmi_panic
  1707. [X86-32,X86-64]
  1708. Set unknown_nmi_panic=1 early on boot.
  1709. usbcore.autosuspend=
  1710. [USB] The autosuspend time delay (in seconds) used
  1711. for newly-detected USB devices (default 2). This
  1712. is the time required before an idle device will be
  1713. autosuspended. Devices for which the delay is set
  1714. to a negative value won't be autosuspended at all.
  1715. usbhid.mousepoll=
  1716. [USBHID] The interval which mice are to be polled at.
  1717. add_efi_memmap [EFI; x86-32,X86-64] Include EFI memory map in
  1718. kernel's map of available physical RAM.
  1719. vdso= [X86-32,SH,x86-64]
  1720. vdso=2: enable compat VDSO (default with COMPAT_VDSO)
  1721. vdso=1: enable VDSO (default)
  1722. vdso=0: disable VDSO mapping
  1723. vdso32= [X86-32,X86-64]
  1724. vdso32=2: enable compat VDSO (default with COMPAT_VDSO)
  1725. vdso32=1: enable 32-bit VDSO (default)
  1726. vdso32=0: disable 32-bit VDSO mapping
  1727. vector= [IA-64,SMP]
  1728. vector=percpu: enable percpu vector domain
  1729. video= [FB] Frame buffer configuration
  1730. See Documentation/fb/modedb.txt.
  1731. vga= [BOOT,X86-32] Select a particular video mode
  1732. See Documentation/i386/boot.txt and
  1733. Documentation/svga.txt.
  1734. Use vga=ask for menu.
  1735. This is actually a boot loader parameter; the value is
  1736. passed to the kernel using a special protocol.
  1737. vmalloc=nn[KMG] [KNL,BOOT] Forces the vmalloc area to have an exact
  1738. size of <nn>. This can be used to increase the
  1739. minimum size (128MB on x86). It can also be used to
  1740. decrease the size and leave more room for directly
  1741. mapped kernel RAM.
  1742. vmhalt= [KNL,S390] Perform z/VM CP command after system halt.
  1743. Format: <command>
  1744. vmpanic= [KNL,S390] Perform z/VM CP command after kernel panic.
  1745. Format: <command>
  1746. vmpoff= [KNL,S390] Perform z/VM CP command after power off.
  1747. Format: <command>
  1748. waveartist= [HW,OSS]
  1749. Format: <io>,<irq>,<dma>,<dma2>
  1750. wd33c93= [HW,SCSI]
  1751. See header of drivers/scsi/wd33c93.c.
  1752. wd7000= [HW,SCSI]
  1753. See header of drivers/scsi/wd7000.c.
  1754. wdt= [WDT] Watchdog
  1755. See Documentation/watchdog/wdt.txt.
  1756. xd= [HW,XT] Original XT pre-IDE (RLL encoded) disks.
  1757. xd_geo= See header of drivers/block/xd.c.
  1758. xirc2ps_cs= [NET,PCMCIA]
  1759. Format:
  1760. <irq>,<irq_mask>,<io>,<full_duplex>,<do_sound>,<lockup_hack>[,<irq2>[,<irq3>[,<irq4>]]]
  1761. norandmaps Don't use address space randomization
  1762. Equivalent to echo 0 > /proc/sys/kernel/randomize_va_space
  1763. ______________________________________________________________________
  1764. TODO:
  1765. Add documentation for ALSA options.
  1766. Add more DRM drivers.