NFS Appropriate NFS support is enabled.
OSS OSS sound support is enabled.
PARIDE The ParIDE subsystem is enabled.
- PARISC The PA-RISC architecture is enabled.
PCI PCI bus support is enabled.
PCMCIA The PCMCIA subsystem is enabled.
PNP Plug & Play support is enabled.
condev= [HW,S390] console device
conmode=
- console= [KNL] Output console device and options.
-
- tty<n> Use the virtual console device <n>.
-
- ttyS<n>[,options]
- Use the specified serial port. The options are of
- the form "bbbbpn", where "bbbb" is the baud rate,
- "p" is parity ("n", "o", or "e"), and "n" is bits.
- Default is "9600n8".
-
- See also Documentation/serial-console.txt.
-
- uart,io,<addr>[,options]
- uart,mmio,<addr>[,options]
- Start an early, polled-mode console on the 8250/16550
- UART at the specified I/O port or MMIO address,
- switching to the matching ttyS device later. The
- options are the same as for ttyS, above.
+ console= [KNL] Output console
+ Console device and comm spec (speed, control, parity).
cpcihp_generic= [HW,PCI] Generic port I/O CompactPCI driver
Format: <first_slot>,<last_slot>,<port>,<enum_bit>[,<debug>]
eicon= [HW,ISDN]
Format: <id>,<membase>,<irq>
- eisa_irq_edge= [PARISC,HW]
+ eisa_irq_edge= [PARISC]
See header of drivers/parisc/eisa.c.
elanfreq= [IA-32]
elevator= [IOSCHED]
Format: {"as"|"cfq"|"deadline"|"noop"}
- See Documentation/block/as-iosched.txt
- and Documentation/block/deadline-iosched.txt for details.
+ See Documentation/as-iosched.txt for details
es1370= [HW,OSS]
Format: <lineout>[,<micbias>]
i810= [HW,DRM]
- i8k.force [HW] Activate i8k driver even if SMM BIOS signature
- does not match list of supported models.
- i8k.power_status
- [HW] Report power status in /proc/i8k
- (disabled by default)
- i8k.restricted [HW] Allow controlling fans only if SYS_ADMIN
- capability is set.
-
ibmmcascsi= [HW,MCA,SCSI] IBM MicroChannel SCSI adapter
See Documentation/mca.txt.
icn= [HW,ISDN]
Format: <io>[,<membase>[,<icn_id>[,<icn_id2>]]]
- ide= [HW] (E)IDE subsystem
- Format: ide=nodma or ide=doubler or ide=reverse
- See Documentation/ide.txt.
-
ide?= [HW] (E)IDE subsystem
- Format: ide?=noprobe or chipset specific parameters.
+ Config (iomem/irq), tuning or debugging
+ (serialize,reset,no{dma,tune,probe}) or chipset
+ specific parameters.
See Documentation/ide.txt.
idebus= [HW] (E)IDE subsystem - VLB/PCI bus speed
ips= [HW,SCSI] Adaptec / IBM ServeRAID controller
See header of drivers/scsi/ips.c.
- irqfixup [HW]
- When an interrupt is not handled search all handlers
- for it. Intended to get systems with badly broken
- firmware running.
-
- irqpoll [HW]
- When an interrupt is not handled search all handlers
- for it. Also check all handlers each timer
- interrupt. Intended to get systems with badly broken
- firmware running.
-
isapnp= [ISAPNP]
Format: <RDP>, <reset>, <pci_scan>, <verbosity>
maxcpus= [SMP] Maximum number of processors that an SMP kernel
should make use of
- max_luns= [SCSI] Maximum number of LUNs to probe
- Should be between 1 and 2^32-1.
+ max_scsi_luns= [SCSI]
- max_report_luns=
+ max_scsi_report_luns=
[SCSI] Maximum number of LUNs received
Should be between 1 and 16384.
mem=nn[KMG] [KNL,BOOT] Force usage of a specific amount of memory
Amount of memory to be used when the kernel is not able
to see the whole system memory or for test.
- [IA-32] Use together with memmap= to avoid physical
- address space collisions. Without memmap= PCI devices
- could be placed at addresses belonging to unused RAM.
mem=nopentium [BUGS=IA-32] Disable usage of 4MB pages for kernel
memory.
[KNL,ACPI] Mark specific memory as reserved.
Region of memory to be used, from ss to ss+nn.
- meye.*= [HW] Set MotionEye Camera parameters
+ meye= [HW] Set MotionEye Camera parameters
See Documentation/video4linux/meye.txt.
mga= [HW,DRM]
noalign [KNL,ARM]
- noapic [SMP,APIC] Tells the kernel to not make use of any
- IOAPICs that may be present in the system.
+ noapic [SMP,APIC] Tells the kernel not to make use of any
+ APIC that may be present on the system.
noasync [HW,M68K] Disables async and sync negotiation for
all devices.
noexec [IA-64]
- noexec [i386, x86_64]
+ noexec [i386]
noexec=on: enable non-executable mappings (default)
noexec=off: disable nn-executable mappings
nofxsr [BUGS=IA-32]
+ nohighio [BUGS=IA-32] Disable highmem block I/O.
+
nohlt [BUGS=ARM]
no-hlt [BUGS=IA-32] Tells the kernel that the hlt
order they are specified on the command
line, starting with parport0.
- parport_init_mode=
- [HW,PPT] Configure VIA parallel port to
- operate in specific mode. This is
- necessary on Pegasos computer where
- firmware has no options for setting up
- parallel port mode and sets it to
- spp. Currently this function knows
- 686a and 8231 chips.
- Format: [spp|ps2|epp|ecp|ecpepp]
-
pas2= [HW,OSS]
Format: <io>,<irq>,<dma>,<dma16>,<sb_io>,<sb_irq>,<sb_dma>,<sb_dma16>
enabled.
noacpi [IA-32] Do not use ACPI for IRQ routing
or for PCI scanning.
- routeirq Do IRQ routing for all PCI devices.
- This is normally done in pci_enable_device(),
- so this option is a temporary workaround
- for broken drivers that don't call it.
firmware [ARM] Do not re-enumerate the bus but
instead just use the configuration
pd. [PARIDE]
See Documentation/paride.txt.
- pdcchassis= [PARISC,HW] Disable/Enable PDC Chassis Status codes at
- boot time.
- Format: { 0 | 1 }
- See arch/parisc/kernel/pdc_chassis.c
-
pf. [PARIDE]
See Documentation/paride.txt.
(param: profile step/bucket size as a power of 2 for
statistical time based profiling)
- processor.max_cstate= [HW, ACPI]
- Limit processor to maximum C-state
- max_cstate=9 overrides any DMI blacklist limit.
-
prompt_ramdisk= [RAM] List of RAM disks to prompt for floppy disk
before loading.
See Documentation/ramdisk.txt.
New name for the ramdisk parameter.
See Documentation/ramdisk.txt.
+ ramdisk_start= [RAM] Starting block of RAM disk image (so you can
+ place it after the kernel image on a boot floppy).
+ See Documentation/ramdisk.txt.
+
reboot= [BUGS=IA-32,BUGS=ARM,BUGS=IA-64] Rebooting mode
Format: <reboot_mode>[,<reboot_mode2>[,...]]
See arch/*/kernel/reboot.c.
scsi_logging= [SCSI]
+ scsihosts= [SCSI]
+
serialnumber [BUGS=IA-32]
sf16fm= [HW] SF16FMI radio driver for Linux
sonycd535= [HW,CD]
Format: <io>[,<irq>]
- sonypi.*= [HW] Sony Programmable I/O Control Device driver
- See Documentation/sonypi.txt
+ sonypi= [HW] Sony Programmable I/O Control Device driver
+ Format: <minor>,<verbose>,<fnkeyinit>,<camera>,<compat>,<nojogdial>
specialix= [HW,SERIAL] Specialix multi-serial port adapter
See Documentation/specialix.txt.
+ speedstep_coppermine=
+ [HW,IA-32] Take CPU in your notebook as SpeedStep-capable
+ See comment before function speedstep_setup() in
+ arch/i386/kernel/cpu/cpufreq/speedstep.c.
+
spia_io_base= [HW,MTD]
spia_fio_base=
spia_pedr=
st0x= [HW,SCSI]
See header of drivers/scsi/seagate.c.
- sti= [PARISC,HW]
+ sti= [HW]
Format: <num>
Set the STI (builtin display/keyboard on the HP-PARISC
machines) console (graphic card) which should be used
uart6850= [HW,OSS]
Format: <io>,<irq>
-
- usb-handoff [HW] Enable early USB BIOS -> OS handoff
video= [FB] Frame buffer configuration
See Documentation/fb/modedb.txt.