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@@ -87,7 +87,8 @@ parameter is applicable:
87 SH SuperH architecture is enabled. 87 SH SuperH architecture is enabled.
88 SMP The kernel is an SMP kernel. 88 SMP The kernel is an SMP kernel.
89 SPARC Sparc architecture is enabled. 89 SPARC Sparc architecture is enabled.
90 SWSUSP Software suspend is enabled. 90 SWSUSP Software suspend (hibernation) is enabled.
91 SUSPEND System suspend states are enabled.
91 TS Appropriate touchscreen support is enabled. 92 TS Appropriate touchscreen support is enabled.
92 USB USB support is enabled. 93 USB USB support is enabled.
93 USBHID USB Human Interface Device support is enabled. 94 USBHID USB Human Interface Device support is enabled.
@@ -147,10 +148,12 @@ and is between 256 and 4096 characters. It is defined in the file
147 default: 0 148 default: 0
148 149
149 acpi_sleep= [HW,ACPI] Sleep options 150 acpi_sleep= [HW,ACPI] Sleep options
150 Format: { s3_bios, s3_mode, s3_beep, old_ordering } 151 Format: { s3_bios, s3_mode, s3_beep, s4_nohwsig, old_ordering }
151 See Documentation/power/video.txt for s3_bios and s3_mode. 152 See Documentation/power/video.txt for s3_bios and s3_mode.
152 s3_beep is for debugging; it makes the PC's speaker beep 153 s3_beep is for debugging; it makes the PC's speaker beep
153 as soon as the kernel's real-mode entry point is called. 154 as soon as the kernel's real-mode entry point is called.
155 s4_nohwsig prevents ACPI hardware signature from being
156 used during resume from hibernation.
154 old_ordering causes the ACPI 1.0 ordering of the _PTS 157 old_ordering causes the ACPI 1.0 ordering of the _PTS
155 control method, wrt putting devices into low power 158 control method, wrt putting devices into low power
156 states, to be enforced (the ACPI 2.0 ordering of _PTS is 159 states, to be enforced (the ACPI 2.0 ordering of _PTS is
@@ -774,8 +777,22 @@ and is between 256 and 4096 characters. It is defined in the file
774 hisax= [HW,ISDN] 777 hisax= [HW,ISDN]
775 See Documentation/isdn/README.HiSax. 778 See Documentation/isdn/README.HiSax.
776 779
777 hugepages= [HW,X86-32,IA-64] Maximal number of HugeTLB pages. 780 hugepages= [HW,X86-32,IA-64] HugeTLB pages to allocate at boot.
778 hugepagesz= [HW,IA-64,PPC] The size of the HugeTLB pages. 781 hugepagesz= [HW,IA-64,PPC,X86-64] The size of the HugeTLB pages.
782 On x86-64 and powerpc, this option can be specified
783 multiple times interleaved with hugepages= to reserve
784 huge pages of different sizes. Valid pages sizes on
785 x86-64 are 2M (when the CPU supports "pse") and 1G
786 (when the CPU supports the "pdpe1gb" cpuinfo flag)
787 Note that 1GB pages can only be allocated at boot time
788 using hugepages= and not freed afterwards.
789 default_hugepagesz=
790 [same as hugepagesz=] The size of the default
791 HugeTLB page size. This is the size represented by
792 the legacy /proc/ hugepages APIs, used for SHM, and
793 default size when mounting hugetlbfs filesystems.
794 Defaults to the default architecture's huge page size
795 if not specified.
779 796
780 i8042.direct [HW] Put keyboard port into non-translated mode 797 i8042.direct [HW] Put keyboard port into non-translated mode
781 i8042.dumbkbd [HW] Pretend that controller can only read data from 798 i8042.dumbkbd [HW] Pretend that controller can only read data from
@@ -1225,6 +1242,14 @@ and is between 256 and 4096 characters. It is defined in the file
1225 1242
1226 mga= [HW,DRM] 1243 mga= [HW,DRM]
1227 1244
1245 mminit_loglevel=
1246 [KNL] When CONFIG_DEBUG_MEMORY_INIT is set, this
1247 parameter allows control of the logging verbosity for
1248 the additional memory initialisation checks. A value
1249 of 0 disables mminit logging and a level of 4 will
1250 log everything. Information is printed at KERN_DEBUG
1251 so loglevel=8 may also need to be specified.
1252
1228 mousedev.tap_time= 1253 mousedev.tap_time=
1229 [MOUSE] Maximum time between finger touching and 1254 [MOUSE] Maximum time between finger touching and
1230 leaving touchpad surface for touch to be considered 1255 leaving touchpad surface for touch to be considered
@@ -2101,6 +2126,12 @@ and is between 256 and 4096 characters. It is defined in the file
2101 2126
2102 tdfx= [HW,DRM] 2127 tdfx= [HW,DRM]
2103 2128
2129 test_suspend= [SUSPEND]
2130 Specify "mem" (for Suspend-to-RAM) or "standby" (for
2131 standby suspend) as the system sleep state to briefly
2132 enter during system startup. The system is woken from
2133 this state using a wakeup-capable RTC alarm.
2134
2104 thash_entries= [KNL,NET] 2135 thash_entries= [KNL,NET]
2105 Set number of hash buckets for TCP connection 2136 Set number of hash buckets for TCP connection
2106 2137
@@ -2128,13 +2159,6 @@ and is between 256 and 4096 characters. It is defined in the file
2128 <deci-seconds>: poll all this frequency 2159 <deci-seconds>: poll all this frequency
2129 0: no polling (default) 2160 0: no polling (default)
2130 2161
2131 tipar.timeout= [HW,PPT]
2132 Set communications timeout in tenths of a second
2133 (default 15).
2134
2135 tipar.delay= [HW,PPT]
2136 Set inter-bit delay in microseconds (default 10).
2137
2138 tmscsim= [HW,SCSI] 2162 tmscsim= [HW,SCSI]
2139 See comment before function dc390_setup() in 2163 See comment before function dc390_setup() in
2140 drivers/scsi/tmscsim.c. 2164 drivers/scsi/tmscsim.c.