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@@ -49,6 +49,7 @@ parameter is applicable:
EDD BIOS Enhanced Disk Drive Services (EDD) is enabled
EFI EFI Partitioning (GPT) is enabled
EIDE EIDE/ATAPI support is enabled.
+ EVM Extended Verification Module
FB The frame buffer device is enabled.
FTRACE Function tracing enabled.
GCOV GCOV profiling is enabled.
@@ -163,7 +164,7 @@ bytes respectively. Such letter suffixes can also be entirely omitted.
rsdt -- prefer RSDT over (default) XSDT
copy_dsdt -- copy DSDT to memory
- See also Documentation/power/pm.txt, pci=noacpi
+ See also Documentation/power/runtime_pm.txt, pci=noacpi
acpi_rsdp= [ACPI,EFI,KEXEC]
Pass the RSDP address to the kernel, mostly used
@@ -319,7 +320,7 @@ bytes respectively. Such letter suffixes can also be entirely omitted.
amijoy.map= [HW,JOY] Amiga joystick support
Map of devices attached to JOY0DAT and JOY1DAT
Format: <a>,<b>
- See also Documentation/kernel/input/joystick.txt
+ See also Documentation/input/joystick.txt
analog.map= [HW,JOY] Analog joystick and gamepad support
Specifies type or capabilities of an analog joystick
@@ -408,7 +409,7 @@ bytes respectively. Such letter suffixes can also be entirely omitted.
bttv.radio= Most important insmod options are available as
kernel args too.
bttv.pll= See Documentation/video4linux/bttv/Insmod-options
- bttv.tuner= and Documentation/video4linux/bttv/CARDLIST
+ bttv.tuner=
bulk_remove=off [PPC] This parameter disables the use of the pSeries
firmware feature for flushing multiple hpte entries
@@ -724,7 +725,7 @@ bytes respectively. Such letter suffixes can also be entirely omitted.
elevator= [IOSCHED]
Format: {"cfq" | "deadline" | "noop"}
- See Documentation/block/as-iosched.txt and
+ See Documentation/block/cfq-iosched.txt and
Documentation/block/deadline-iosched.txt for details.
elfcorehdr= [IA-64,PPC,SH,X86]
@@ -760,12 +761,17 @@ bytes respectively. Such letter suffixes can also be entirely omitted.
This option is obsoleted by the "netdev=" option, which
has equivalent usage. See its documentation for details.
+ evm= [EVM]
+ Format: { "fix" }
+ Permit 'security.evm' to be updated regardless of
+ current integrity status.
+
failslab=
fail_page_alloc=
fail_make_request=[KNL]
General fault injection mechanism.
Format: <interval>,<probability>,<space>,<times>
- See also /Documentation/fault-injection/.
+ See also Documentation/fault-injection/.
floppy= [HW]
See Documentation/blockdev/floppy.txt.
@@ -2241,6 +2247,13 @@ bytes respectively. Such letter suffixes can also be entirely omitted.
in <PAGE_SIZE> units (needed only for swap files).
See Documentation/power/swsusp-and-swap-files.txt
+ resumedelay= [HIBERNATION] Delay (in seconds) to pause before attempting to
+ read the resume files
+
+ resumewait [HIBERNATION] Wait (indefinitely) for resume device to show up.
+ Useful for devices that are detected asynchronously
+ (e.g. USB and MMC devices).
+
hibernate= [HIBERNATION]
noresume Don't check if there's a hibernation image
present during boot.
@@ -2376,7 +2389,7 @@ bytes respectively. Such letter suffixes can also be entirely omitted.
Format: <integer>
sonypi.*= [HW] Sony Programmable I/O Control Device driver
- See Documentation/sonypi.txt
+ See Documentation/laptops/sonypi.txt
specialix= [HW,SERIAL] Specialix multi-serial port adapter
See Documentation/serial/specialix.txt.
@@ -2707,10 +2720,11 @@ bytes respectively. Such letter suffixes can also be entirely omitted.
functions are at fixed addresses, they make nice
targets for exploits that can control RIP.
- emulate [default] Vsyscalls turn into traps and are
- emulated reasonably safely.
+ emulate Vsyscalls turn into traps and are emulated
+ reasonably safely.
- native Vsyscalls are native syscall instructions.
+ native [default] Vsyscalls are native syscall
+ instructions.
This is a little bit faster than trapping
and makes a few dynamic recompilers work
better than they would in emulation mode.