MTD MTD (Memory Technology Device) support is enabled.
NET Appropriate network support is enabled.
NUMA NUMA support is enabled.
- GENERIC_TIME The generic timeofday code is enabled.
NFS Appropriate NFS support is enabled.
OSS OSS sound support is enabled.
PV_OPS A paravirtualized kernel is enabled.
Documentation/scsi/.
SECURITY Different security models are enabled.
SELINUX SELinux support is enabled.
+ APPARMOR AppArmor support is enabled.
SERIAL Serial support is enabled.
SH SuperH architecture is enabled.
SMP The kernel is an SMP kernel.
More X86-64 boot options can be found in
Documentation/x86/x86_64/boot-options.txt .
X86 Either 32bit or 64bit x86 (same as X86-32+X86-64)
+ XEN Xen support is enabled
In addition, the following text indicates that the option:
control method, with respect to putting devices into
low power states, to be enforced (the ACPI 2.0 ordering
of _PTS is used by default).
- s4_nonvs prevents the kernel from saving/restoring the
- ACPI NVS memory during hibernation.
+ nonvs prevents the kernel from saving/restoring the
+ ACPI NVS memory during suspend/hibernation and resume.
sci_force_enable causes the kernel to set SCI_EN directly
on resume from S1/S3 (which is against the ACPI spec,
but some broken systems don't work without it).
clocksource is not available, it defaults to PIT.
Format: { pit | tsc | cyclone | pmtmr }
- clocksource= [GENERIC_TIME] Override the default clocksource
+ clocksource= Override the default clocksource
Format: <string>
Override the default clocksource and use the clocksource
with the name specified.
kgdboc= [KGDB,HW] kgdb over consoles.
Requires a tty driver that supports console polling,
or a supported polling keyboard driver (non-usb).
- Serial only format: <serial_device>[,baud]
- keyboard only format: kbd
- keyboard and serial format: kbd,<serial_device>[,baud]
+ Serial only format: <serial_device>[,baud]
+ keyboard only format: kbd
+ keyboard and serial format: kbd,<serial_device>[,baud]
+ Optional Kernel mode setting:
+ kms, kbd format: kms,kbd
+ kms, kbd and serial format: kms,kbd,<ser_dev>[,baud]
kgdbwait [KGDB] Stop kernel execution and enter the
kernel debugger at the earliest opportunity.
If there are multiple matching configurations changing
the same attribute, the last one is used.
- lmb=debug [KNL] Enable lmb debug messages.
+ memblock=debug [KNL] Enable memblock debug messages.
load_ramdisk= [RAM] List of ramdisks to load from floppy
See Documentation/blockdev/ramdisk.txt.
nousb [USB] Disable the USB subsystem
+ nowatchdog [KNL] Disable the lockup detector.
+
nowb [ARM]
nox2apic [X86-64,APIC] Do not enable x2APIC mode.
norom [X86] Do not assign address space to
expansion ROMs that do not already have
BIOS assigned address ranges.
+ nobar [X86] Do not assign address space to the
+ BARs that weren't assigned by the BIOS.
irqmask=0xMMMM [X86] Set a bit mask of IRQs allowed to be
assigned automatically to PCI devices. You can
make the kernel exclude IRQs of your ISA cards
WARNING: Forcing ASPM on may cause system lockups.
pcie_pme= [PCIE,PM] Native PCIe PME signaling options:
- off Do not use native PCIe PME signaling.
+ Format: {auto|force}[,nomsi]
+ auto Use native PCIe PME signaling if the BIOS allows the
+ kernel to control PCIe config registers of root ports.
force Use native PCIe PME signaling even if the BIOS refuses
to allow the kernel to control the relevant PCIe config
registers.
If enabled at boot time, /selinux/disable can be used
later to disable prior to initial policy load.
+ apparmor= [APPARMOR] Disable or enable AppArmor at boot time
+ Format: { "0" | "1" }
+ See security/apparmor/Kconfig help text
+ 0 -- disable.
+ 1 -- enable.
+ Default value is set via kernel config option.
+
serialnumber [BUGS=X86-32]
shapers= [NET]
xd= [HW,XT] Original XT pre-IDE (RLL encoded) disks.
xd_geo= See header of drivers/block/xd.c.
+ xen_emul_unplug= [HW,X86,XEN]
+ Unplug Xen emulated devices
+ Format: [unplug0,][unplug1]
+ ide-disks -- unplug primary master IDE devices
+ aux-ide-disks -- unplug non-primary-master IDE devices
+ nics -- unplug network devices
+ all -- unplug all emulated devices (NICs and IDE disks)
+ ignore -- continue loading the Xen platform PCI driver even
+ if the version check failed
+
xirc2ps_cs= [NET,PCMCIA]
Format:
<irq>,<irq_mask>,<io>,<full_duplex>,<do_sound>,<lockup_hack>[,<irq2>[,<irq3>[,<irq4>]]]