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authorLinus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>2014-10-23 17:45:09 -0400
committerLinus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>2014-10-23 17:45:09 -0400
commit8c81f48e16fbe103e682d7ee7b2f16d065c42954 (patch)
tree1eac3abf36ed9330b3d5f9e550d1ccbc0c174f9b /Documentation
parent5de551e0eeddf470928e9fee59825a3645641bc7 (diff)
parent75b128573b275d5a5a7210b98c4b8cb3b39c12e7 (diff)
Merge branch 'x86-efi-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/tip
Pull x86 EFI updates from Peter Anvin: "This patchset falls under the "maintainers that grovel" clause in the v3.18-rc1 announcement. We had intended to push it late in the merge window since we got it into the -tip tree relatively late. Many of these are relatively simple things, but there are a couple of key bits, especially Ard's and Matt's patches" * 'x86-efi-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/tip: (24 commits) rtc: Disable EFI rtc for x86 efi: rtc-efi: Export platform:rtc-efi as module alias efi: Delete the in_nmi() conditional runtime locking efi: Provide a non-blocking SetVariable() operation x86/efi: Adding efi_printks on memory allocationa and pci.reads x86/efi: Mark initialization code as such x86/efi: Update comment regarding required phys mapped EFI services x86/efi: Unexport add_efi_memmap variable x86/efi: Remove unused efi_call* macros efi: Resolve some shadow warnings arm64: efi: Format EFI memory type & attrs with efi_md_typeattr_format() ia64: efi: Format EFI memory type & attrs with efi_md_typeattr_format() x86: efi: Format EFI memory type & attrs with efi_md_typeattr_format() efi: Introduce efi_md_typeattr_format() efi: Add macro for EFI_MEMORY_UCE memory attribute x86/efi: Clear EFI_RUNTIME_SERVICES if failing to enter virtual mode arm64/efi: Do not enter virtual mode if booting with efi=noruntime or noefi arm64/efi: uefi_init error handling fix efi: Add kernel param efi=noruntime lib: Add a generic cmdline parse function parse_option_str ...
Diffstat (limited to 'Documentation')
-rw-r--r--Documentation/kernel-parameters.txt8
1 files changed, 6 insertions, 2 deletions
diff --git a/Documentation/kernel-parameters.txt b/Documentation/kernel-parameters.txt
index 988160a4ad31..74339c57b914 100644
--- a/Documentation/kernel-parameters.txt
+++ b/Documentation/kernel-parameters.txt
@@ -1015,10 +1015,14 @@ bytes respectively. Such letter suffixes can also be entirely omitted.
1015 Format: {"off" | "on" | "skip[mbr]"} 1015 Format: {"off" | "on" | "skip[mbr]"}
1016 1016
1017 efi= [EFI] 1017 efi= [EFI]
1018 Format: { "old_map" } 1018 Format: { "old_map", "nochunk", "noruntime" }
1019 old_map [X86-64]: switch to the old ioremap-based EFI 1019 old_map [X86-64]: switch to the old ioremap-based EFI
1020 runtime services mapping. 32-bit still uses this one by 1020 runtime services mapping. 32-bit still uses this one by
1021 default. 1021 default.
1022 nochunk: disable reading files in "chunks" in the EFI
1023 boot stub, as chunking can cause problems with some
1024 firmware implementations.
1025 noruntime : disable EFI runtime services support
1022 1026
1023 efi_no_storage_paranoia [EFI; X86] 1027 efi_no_storage_paranoia [EFI; X86]
1024 Using this parameter you can use more than 50% of 1028 Using this parameter you can use more than 50% of
@@ -2232,7 +2236,7 @@ bytes respectively. Such letter suffixes can also be entirely omitted.
2232 2236
2233 nodsp [SH] Disable hardware DSP at boot time. 2237 nodsp [SH] Disable hardware DSP at boot time.
2234 2238
2235 noefi [X86] Disable EFI runtime services support. 2239 noefi Disable EFI runtime services support.
2236 2240
2237 noexec [IA-64] 2241 noexec [IA-64]
2238 2242