2.6.24

 Documentation

diff --git a/Documentation/kernel-parameters.txt b/Documentation/kernel-parameters.txt
index 4d175c7..c417877 100644
--- a/Documentation/kernel-parameters.txt
+++ b/Documentation/kernel-parameters.txt
@@ -35,6 +35,7 @@ parameter is applicable:
    APIC   APIC support is enabled.
    APM   Advanced Power Management support is enabled.
    AX25   Appropriate AX.25 support is enabled.
+   BLACKFIN Blackfin architecture is enabled.
    DRM   Direct Rendering Management support is enabled.
    EDD   BIOS Enhanced Disk Drive Services (EDD) is enabled
    EFI   EFI Partitioning (GPT) is enabled
@@ -67,16 +68,19 @@ parameter is applicable:
    PARIDE   The ParIDE (parallel port IDE) subsystem is enabled.
    PARISC   The PA-RISC architecture is enabled.
    PCI   PCI bus support is enabled.
+   PCIE   PCI Express support is enabled.
    PCMCIA   The PCMCIA subsystem is enabled.
    PNP   Plug & Play support is enabled.
    PPC   PowerPC architecture is enabled.
    PPT   Parallel port support is enabled.
    PS2   Appropriate PS/2 support is enabled.
    RAM   RAM disk support is enabled.
+   ROOTPLUG The example Root Plug LSM is enabled.
    S390   S390 architecture is enabled.
    SCSI   Appropriate SCSI support is enabled.
          A lot of drivers has their options described inside of
          Documentation/scsi/.
+   SECURITY Different security models are enabled.
    SELINUX SELinux support is enabled.
    SERIAL   Serial support is enabled.
    SH   SuperH architecture is enabled.
@@ -218,9 +222,6 @@ and is between 256 and 4096 characters. It is defined in the file
          Warning: Many of these options can produce a lot of
          output and make your system unusable. Be very careful.
 
-
-   acpi_fake_ecdt   [HW,ACPI] Workaround failure due to BIOS lacking ECDT
-
    acpi_pm_good   [X86-32,X86-64]
          Override the pmtimer bug detection: force the kernel
          to assume that this machine's pmtimer latches its value
@@ -293,9 +294,6 @@ and is between 256 and 4096 characters. It is defined in the file
    apm=      [APM] Advanced Power Management
          See header of arch/i386/kernel/apm.c.
 
-   applicom=   [HW]
-         Format: <mem>,<irq>
-
    arcrimi=   [HW,NET] ARCnet - "RIM I" (entirely mem-mapped) cards
          Format: <io>,<irq>,<nodeID>
 
@@ -341,11 +339,10 @@ and is between 256 and 4096 characters. It is defined in the file
          Format: <io>,<irq>,<mode>
          See header of drivers/net/hamradio/baycom_ser_hdx.c.
 
-   blkmtd_device=   [HW,MTD]
-   blkmtd_erasesz=
-   blkmtd_ro=
-   blkmtd_bs=
-   blkmtd_count=
+   boot_delay=   Milliseconds to delay each printk during boot.
+         Values larger than 10 seconds (10000) are changed to
+         no delay (0).
+         Format: integer
 
    bttv.card=   [HW,V4L] bttv (bt848 + bt878 based grabber cards)
    bttv.radio=   Most important insmod options are available as
@@ -366,6 +363,12 @@ and is between 256 and 4096 characters. It is defined in the file
          possible to determine what the correct size should be.
          This option provides an override for these situations.
 
+   capability.disable=
+         [SECURITY] Disable capabilities.  This would normally
+         be used only if an alternative security model is to be
+         configured.  Potentially dangerous and should only be
+         used if you are entirely sure of the consequences.
+
    chandev=   [HW,NET] Generic channel device initialisation
 
    checkreqprot   [SELINUX] Set initial checkreqprot flag value.
@@ -416,8 +419,11 @@ and is between 256 and 4096 characters. It is defined in the file
          over the 8254 in addition to over the IO-APIC. The
          kernel tries to set a sensible default.
 
-   hpet=      [X86-32,HPET] option to disable HPET and use PIT.
-         Format: disable
+   hpet=      [X86-32,HPET] option to control HPET usage
+         Format: { enable (default) | disable | force }
+         disable: disable HPET and use PIT instead
+         force: allow force enabled of undocumented chips (ICH4,
+         VIA, nVidia)
 
    com20020=   [HW,NET] ARCnet - COM20020 chipset
          Format:
@@ -464,6 +470,16 @@ and is between 256 and 4096 characters. It is defined in the file
          UART at the specified I/O port or MMIO address.
          The options are the same as for ttyS, above.
 
+   no_console_suspend
+         [HW] Never suspend the console
+         Disable suspending of consoles during suspend and
+         hibernate operations.  Once disabled, debugging
+         messages can reach various consoles while the rest
+         of the system is being put to sleep (ie, while
+         debugging driver suspend/resume hooks).  This may
+         not work reliably with all consoles, but is known
+         to work with serial and VGA consoles.
+
    cpcihp_generic=   [HW,PCI] Generic port I/O CompactPCI driver
          Format:
          <first_slot>,<last_slot>,<port>,<enum_bit>[,<debug>]
@@ -472,6 +488,13 @@ and is between 256 and 4096 characters. It is defined in the file
          [KNL] Reserve a chunk of physical memory to
          hold a kernel to switch to with kexec on panic.
 
+   crashkernel=range1:size1[,range2:size2,...][@offset]
+         [KNL] Same as above, but depends on the memory
+         in the running system. The syntax of range is
+         start-[end] where start and end are both
+         a memory unit (amount[KMG]). See also
+         Documentation/kdump/kdump.txt for a example.
+
    cs4232=      [HW,OSS]
          Format: <io>,<irq>,<dma>,<dma2>,<mpuio>,<mpuirq>
 
@@ -481,8 +504,6 @@ and is between 256 and 4096 characters. It is defined in the file
    cs89x0_media=   [HW,NET]
          Format: { rj45 | aui | bnc }
 
-   cyclades=   [HW,SERIAL] Cyclades multi-serial port adapter.
-
    dasd=      [HW,NET]
          See header of drivers/s390/block/dasd_devmap.c.
 
@@ -506,29 +527,30 @@ and is between 256 and 4096 characters. It is defined in the file
          Format: <area>[,<node>]
          See also Documentation/networking/decnet.txt.
 
-   default_blu=   [VT]
+   vt.default_blu=   [VT]
          Format: <blue0>,<blue1>,<blue2>,...,<blue15>
          Change the default blue palette of the console.
          This is a 16-member array composed of values
          ranging from 0-255.
 
-   default_grn=   [VT]
+   vt.default_grn=   [VT]
          Format: <green0>,<green1>,<green2>,...,<green15>
          Change the default green palette of the console.
          This is a 16-member array composed of values
          ranging from 0-255.
 
-   default_red=   [VT]
+   vt.default_red=   [VT]
          Format: <red0>,<red1>,<red2>,...,<red15>
          Change the default red palette of the console.
          This is a 16-member array composed of values
          ranging from 0-255.
 
-   default_utf8=   [VT]
+   vt.default_utf8=
+         [VT]
          Format=<0|1>
          Set system-wide default UTF-8 mode for all tty's.
-         Default is 0 and by setting to 1, it enables UTF-8
-         mode for all newly opened or allocated terminals.
+         Default is 1, i.e. UTF-8 mode is enabled for all
+         newly opened terminals.
 
    dhash_entries=   [KNL]
          Set number of hash buckets for dentry cache.
@@ -540,17 +562,13 @@ and is between 256 and 4096 characters. It is defined in the file
          See drivers/char/README.epca and
          Documentation/digiepca.txt.
 
-   dmascc=      [HW,AX25,SERIAL] AX.25 Z80SCC driver with DMA
-         support available.
-         Format: <io_dev0>[,<io_dev1>[,..<io_dev32>]]
-
    dmasound=   [HW,OSS] Sound subsystem buffers
 
    dscc4.setup=   [NET]
 
    dtc3181e=   [HW,SCSI]
 
-   earlyprintk=   [X86-32,X86-64,SH]
+   earlyprintk=   [X86-32,X86-64,SH,BLACKFIN]
          earlyprintk=vga
          earlyprintk=serial[,ttySn[,baudrate]]
 
@@ -569,22 +587,10 @@ and is between 256 and 4096 characters. It is defined in the file
 
    eata=      [HW,SCSI]
 
-   ec_intr=   [HW,ACPI] ACPI Embedded Controller interrupt mode
-         Format: <int>
-         0: polling mode
-         non-0: interrupt mode (default)
-
-   eda=      [HW,PS2]
-
-   edb=      [HW,PS2]
-
    edd=      [EDD]
          Format: {"of[f]" | "sk[ipmbr]"}
          See comment in arch/i386/boot/edd.S
 
-   eicon=      [HW,ISDN]
-         Format: <id>,<membase>,<irq>
-
    eisa_irq_edge=   [PARISC,HW]
          See header of drivers/parisc/eisa.c.
 
@@ -763,6 +769,23 @@ and is between 256 and 4096 characters. It is defined in the file
 
    inttest=   [IA64]
 
+   intel_iommu=   [DMAR] Intel IOMMU driver (DMAR) option
+      off
+         Disable intel iommu driver.
+      igfx_off [Default Off]
+         By default, gfx is mapped as normal device. If a gfx
+         device has a dedicated DMAR unit, the DMAR unit is
+         bypassed by not enabling DMAR with this option. In
+         this case, gfx device will use physical address for
+         DMA.
+      forcedac [x86_64]
+         With this option iommu will not optimize to look
+         for io virtual address below 32 bit forcing dual
+         address cycle on pci bus for cards supporting greater
+         than 32 bit addressing. The default is to look
+         for translation below 32 bit and if not available
+         then look in the higher range.
+
    io7=      [HW] IO7 for Marvel based alpha systems
          See comment before marvel_specify_io7 in
          arch/alpha/kernel/core_marvel.c.
@@ -860,8 +883,17 @@ and is between 256 and 4096 characters. It is defined in the file
    lapic_timer_c2_ok   [X86-32,x86-64,APIC] trust the local apic timer in
          C2 power state.
 
-   lasi=      [HW,SCSI] PARISC LASI driver for the 53c700 chip
-         Format: addr:<io>,irq:<irq>
+   libata.dma=   [LIBATA] DMA control
+         libata.dma=0     Disable all PATA and SATA DMA
+         libata.dma=1     PATA and SATA Disk DMA only
+         libata.dma=2     ATAPI (CDROM) DMA only
+         libata.dma=4     Compact Flash DMA only 
+         Combinations also work, so libata.dma=3 enables DMA
+         for disks and CDROMs, but not CFs.
+
+   libata.noacpi   [LIBATA] Disables use of ACPI in libata suspend/resume
+         when set.
+         Format: <int>
 
    load_ramdisk=   [RAM] List of ramdisks to load from floppy
          See Documentation/ramdisk.txt.
@@ -900,6 +932,11 @@ and is between 256 and 4096 characters. It is defined in the file
          n must be a power of two.  The default size
          is set in the kernel config file.
 
+   logo.nologo   [FB] Disables display of the built-in Linux logo.
+         This may be used to provide more screen space for
+         kernel log messages and is useful when debugging
+         kernel boot problems.
+
    lp=0      [LP]   Specify parallel ports to use, e.g,
    lp=port[,port...]   lp=none,parport0 (lp0 not configured, lp1 uses
    lp=reset      first parallel port). 'lp=0' disables the
@@ -970,6 +1007,8 @@ and is between 256 and 4096 characters. It is defined in the file
 
    mce      [X86-32] Machine Check Exception
 
+   mce=option   [X86-64] See Documentation/x86_64/boot-options.txt
+
    md=      [HW] RAID subsystems devices and level
          See Documentation/md.txt.
 
@@ -1008,6 +1047,10 @@ and is between 256 and 4096 characters. It is defined in the file
    meye.*=      [HW] Set MotionEye Camera parameters
          See Documentation/video4linux/meye.txt.
 
+   mfgpt_irq=   [IA-32] Specify the IRQ to use for the
+         Multi-Function General Purpose Timers on AMD Geode
+         platforms.
+
    mga=      [HW,DRM]
 
    mousedev.tap_time=
@@ -1073,16 +1116,19 @@ and is between 256 and 4096 characters. It is defined in the file
          [NFS] set the maximum lifetime for idmapper cache
          entries.
 
+   nfs.enable_ino64=
+         [NFS] enable 64-bit inode numbers.
+         If zero, the NFS client will fake up a 32-bit inode
+         number for the readdir() and stat() syscalls instead
+         of returning the full 64-bit number.
+         The default is to return 64-bit inode numbers.
+
    nmi_watchdog=   [KNL,BUGS=X86-32] Debugging features for SMP kernels
 
    no387      [BUGS=X86-32] Tells the kernel to use the 387 maths
          emulation library even if a 387 maths coprocessor
          is present.
 
-   noacpi      [LIBATA] Disables use of ACPI in libata suspend/resume
-         when set.
-         Format: <int>
-
    noaliencache   [MM, NUMA, SLAB] Disables the allocation of alien
          caches in the slab allocator.  Saves per-node memory,
          but will impact performance.
@@ -1092,9 +1138,6 @@ and is between 256 and 4096 characters. It is defined in the file
    noapic      [SMP,APIC] Tells the kernel to not make use of any
          IOAPICs that may be present in the system.
 
-   noasync      [HW,M68K] Disables async and sync negotiation for
-         all devices.
-
    nobats      [PPC] Do not use BATs for mapping kernel lowmem
          on "Classic" PPC cores.
 
@@ -1159,6 +1202,9 @@ and is between 256 and 4096 characters. It is defined in the file
 
    nomce      [X86-32] Machine Check Exception
 
+   nomfgpt      [X86-32] Disable Multi-Function General Purpose
+         Timer usage (for AMD Geode machines).
+
    noreplace-paravirt   [X86-32,PV_OPS] Don't patch paravirt_ops
 
    noreplace-smp   [X86-32,SMP] Don't replace SMP instructions
@@ -1269,6 +1315,11 @@ and is between 256 and 4096 characters. It is defined in the file
             Mechanism 1.
       conf2      [X86-32] Force use of PCI Configuration
             Mechanism 2.
+      noaer      [PCIE] If the PCIEAER kernel config parameter is
+            enabled, this kernel boot option can be used to
+            disable the use of PCIE advanced error reporting.
+      nodomains   [PCI] Disable support for multiple PCI
+            root domains (aka PCI segments, in ACPI-speak).
       nommconf   [X86-32,X86_64] Disable use of MMCONFIG for PCI
             Configuration
       nomsi      [MSI] If the PCI_MSI kernel config parameter is
@@ -1313,6 +1364,8 @@ and is between 256 and 4096 characters. It is defined in the file
             IRQ routing is enabled.
       noacpi      [X86-32] Do not use ACPI for IRQ routing
             or for PCI scanning.
+      use_crs      [X86-32] Use _CRS for PCI resource
+            allocation.
       routeirq   Do IRQ routing for all PCI devices.
             This is normally done in pci_enable_device(),
             so this option is a temporary workaround
@@ -1395,7 +1448,9 @@ and is between 256 and 4096 characters. It is defined in the file
          Param: "schedule" - profile schedule points.
          Param: <number> - step/bucket size as a power of 2 for
             statistical time based profiling.
-         Param: "sleep" - profile D-state sleeping (millisecs)
+         Param: "sleep" - profile D-state sleeping (millisecs).
+            Requires CONFIG_SCHEDSTATS
+         Param: "kvm" - profile VM exits.
 
    processor.max_cstate=   [HW,ACPI]
          Limit processor to maximum C-state
@@ -1429,6 +1484,10 @@ and is between 256 and 4096 characters. It is defined in the file
    pt.      [PARIDE]
          See Documentation/paride.txt.
 
+   pty.legacy_count=
+         [KNL] Number of legacy pty's. Overwrites compiled-in
+         default number.
+
    quiet      [KNL] Disable most log messages
 
    r128=      [HW,DRM]
@@ -1436,14 +1495,10 @@ and is between 256 and 4096 characters. It is defined in the file
    raid=      [HW,RAID]
          See Documentation/md.txt.
 
-   ramdisk=   [RAM] Sizes of RAM disks in kilobytes [deprecated]
-         See Documentation/ramdisk.txt.
-
    ramdisk_blocksize=   [RAM]
          See Documentation/ramdisk.txt.
 
    ramdisk_size=   [RAM] Sizes of RAM disks in kilobytes
-         New name for the ramdisk parameter.
          See Documentation/ramdisk.txt.
 
    rcu.blimit=   [KNL,BOOT] Set maximum number of finished
@@ -1506,6 +1561,15 @@ and is between 256 and 4096 characters. It is defined in the file
          Useful for devices that are detected asynchronously
          (e.g. USB and MMC devices).
 
+   root_plug.vendor_id=
+         [ROOTPLUG] Override the default vendor ID
+
+   root_plug.product_id=
+         [ROOTPLUG] Override the default product ID
+
+   root_plug.debug=
+         [ROOTPLUG] Enable debugging output
+
    rw      [KNL] Mount root device read-write on boot
 
    S      [KNL] Run init in single mode
@@ -1513,9 +1577,6 @@ and is between 256 and 4096 characters. It is defined in the file
    sa1100ir   [NET]
          See drivers/net/irda/sa1100_ir.c.
 
-   sb=      [HW,OSS]
-         Format: <io>,<irq>,<dma>,<dma2>
-
    sbni=      [NET] Granch SBNI12 leased line adapter
 
    sc1200wdt=   [HW,WDT] SC1200 WDT (watchdog) driver
@@ -1559,8 +1620,6 @@ and is between 256 and 4096 characters. It is defined in the file
 
    serialnumber   [BUGS=X86-32]
 
-   sg_def_reserved_size=   [SCSI]
-
    shapers=   [NET]
          Maximal number of shapers.
 
@@ -1863,9 +1922,6 @@ and is between 256 and 4096 characters. It is defined in the file
          Format:
          <io>,<irq>,<dma>,<dma2>,<sb_io>,<sb_irq>,<sb_dma>,<mpu_io>,<mpu_irq>
 
-   tsdev.xres=   [TS] Horizontal screen resolution.
-   tsdev.yres=   [TS] Vertical screen resolution.
-
    turbografx.map[2|3]=   [HW,JOY]
          TurboGraFX parallel port interface
          Format:
@@ -1954,10 +2010,6 @@ and is between 256 and 4096 characters. It is defined in the file
    norandmaps   Don't use address space randomization
          Equivalent to echo 0 > /proc/sys/kernel/randomize_va_space
 
-    unwind_debug=N    N > 0 will enable dwarf2 unwinder debugging
-         This is useful to get more information why
-         you got a "dwarf2 unwinder stuck"
-
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