RAM RAM disk support 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/.
+ A lot of drivers have their options described inside
+ the Documentation/scsi/ sub-directory.
SECURITY Different security models are enabled.
SELINUX SELinux support is enabled.
APPARMOR AppArmor support is enabled.
add_efi_memmap [EFI; X86] Include EFI memory map in
kernel's map of available physical RAM.
- advansys= [HW,SCSI]
- See header of drivers/scsi/advansys.c.
-
agp= [AGP]
{ off | try_unsupported }
off: disable AGP support
try_unsupported: try to drive unsupported chipsets
(may crash computer or cause data corruption)
- aha152x= [HW,SCSI]
- See Documentation/scsi/aha152x.txt.
-
- aha1542= [HW,SCSI]
- Format: <portbase>[,<buson>,<busoff>[,<dmaspeed>]]
-
- aic7xxx= [HW,SCSI]
- See Documentation/scsi/aic7xxx.txt.
-
- aic79xx= [HW,SCSI]
- See Documentation/scsi/aic79xx.txt.
-
ALSA [HW,ALSA]
See Documentation/sound/alsa/alsa-parameters.txt
atarimouse= [HW,MOUSE] Atari Mouse
- atascsi= [HW,SCSI] Atari SCSI
-
atkbd.extra= [HW] Enable extra LEDs and keys on IBM RapidAccess,
EzKey and similar keyboards
bttv.pll= See Documentation/video4linux/bttv/Insmod-options
bttv.tuner= and Documentation/video4linux/bttv/CARDLIST
- BusLogic= [HW,SCSI]
- See drivers/scsi/BusLogic.c, comment before function
- BusLogic_ParseDriverOptions().
-
c101= [NET] Moxa C101 synchronous serial card
cachesize= [BUGS=X86-32] Override level 2 CPU cache size detection.
dscc4.setup= [NET]
- dtc3181e= [HW,SCSI]
-
dynamic_printk Enables pr_debug()/dev_dbg() calls if
CONFIG_DYNAMIC_PRINTK_DEBUG has been enabled.
These can also be switched on/off via
This is desgined to be used in conjunction with
the boot argument: earlyprintk=vga
- eata= [HW,SCSI]
-
edd= [EDD]
Format: {"off" | "on" | "skip[mbr]"}
Format: <interval>,<probability>,<space>,<times>
See also /Documentation/fault-injection/.
- fd_mcs= [HW,SCSI]
- See header of drivers/scsi/fd_mcs.c.
-
- fdomain= [HW,SCSI]
- See header of drivers/scsi/fdomain.c.
-
floppy= [HW]
See Documentation/blockdev/floppy.txt.
When zero, profiling data is discarded and associated
debugfs files are removed at module unload time.
- gdth= [HW,SCSI]
- See header of drivers/scsi/gdth.c.
-
gpt [EFI] Forces disk with valid GPT signature but
invalid Protective MBR to be treated as GPT.
- gvp11= [HW,SCSI]
-
hashdist= [KNL,NUMA] Large hashes allocated during boot
are distributed across NUMA nodes. Defaults on
for 64bit NUMA, off otherwise.
i8k.restricted [HW] Allow controlling fans only if SYS_ADMIN
capability is set.
- ibmmcascsi= [HW,MCA,SCSI] IBM MicroChannel SCSI adapter
- See Documentation/mca.txt.
-
icn= [HW,ISDN]
Format: <io>[,<membase>[,<icn_id>[,<icn_id2>]]]
programs exec'd, files mmap'd for exec, and all files
opened for read by uid=0.
- in2000= [HW,SCSI]
- See header of drivers/scsi/in2000.c.
-
init= [KNL]
Format: <full_path>
Run specified binary instead of /sbin/init as init
See comment before ip2_setup() in
drivers/char/ip2/ip2base.c.
- ips= [HW,SCSI] Adaptec / IBM ServeRAID controller
- See header of drivers/scsi/ips.c.
-
irqfixup [HW]
When an interrupt is not handled search all handlers
for it. Intended to get systems with badly broken
ltpc= [NET]
Format: <io>,<irq>,<dma>
- mac5380= [HW,SCSI] Format:
- <can_queue>,<cmd_per_lun>,<sg_tablesize>,<hostid>,<use_tags>
-
machvec= [IA64] Force the use of a particular machine-vector
(machvec) in a generic kernel.
Example: machvec=hpzx1_swiotlb
be mounted
Format: <1-256>
- max_luns= [SCSI] Maximum number of LUNs to probe.
- Should be between 1 and 2^32-1.
-
- max_report_luns=
- [SCSI] Maximum number of LUNs received.
- Should be between 1 and 16384.
-
mcatest= [IA-64]
mce [X86-32] Machine Check Exception
n2= [NET] SDL Inc. RISCom/N2 synchronous serial card
- NCR_D700= [HW,SCSI]
- See header of drivers/scsi/NCR_D700.c.
-
- ncr5380= [HW,SCSI]
-
- ncr53c400= [HW,SCSI]
-
- ncr53c400a= [HW,SCSI]
-
- ncr53c406a= [HW,SCSI]
-
- ncr53c8xx= [HW,SCSI]
-
netdev= [NET] Network devices parameters
Format: <irq>,<io>,<mem_start>,<mem_end>,<name>
Note that mem_start is often overloaded to mean
OSS [HW,OSS]
See Documentation/sound/oss/oss-parameters.txt
- osst= [HW,SCSI] SCSI Tape Driver
- Format: <buffer_size>,<write_threshold>
- See also Documentation/scsi/st.txt.
-
panic= [KNL] Kernel behaviour on panic
Format: <timeout>
Currently this function knows 686a and 8231 chips.
Format: [spp|ps2|epp|ecp|ecpepp]
- pas16= [HW,SCSI]
- See header of drivers/scsi/pas16.c.
-
pause_on_oops=
Halt all CPUs after the first oops has been printed for
the specified number of seconds. This is to be used if
sched_debug [KNL] Enables verbose scheduler debug messages.
- scsi_debug_*= [SCSI]
- See drivers/scsi/scsi_debug.c.
-
- scsi_default_dev_flags=
- [SCSI] SCSI default device flags
- Format: <integer>
-
- scsi_dev_flags= [SCSI] Black/white list entry for vendor and model
- Format: <vendor>:<model>:<flags>
- (flags are integer value)
-
- scsi_logging_level= [SCSI] a bit mask of logging levels
- See drivers/scsi/scsi_logging.h for bits. Also
- settable via sysctl at dev.scsi.logging_level
- (/proc/sys/dev/scsi/logging_level).
- There is also a nice 'scsi_logging_level' script in the
- S390-tools package, available for download at
- http://www-128.ibm.com/developerworks/linux/linux390/s390-tools-1.5.4.html
-
- scsi_mod.scan= [SCSI] sync (default) scans SCSI busses as they are
- discovered. async scans them in kernel threads,
- allowing boot to proceed. none ignores them, expecting
- user space to do the scan.
-
security= [SECURITY] Choose a security module to enable at boot.
If this boot parameter is not specified, only the first
security module asking for security registration will be
The parameter means the number of CPUs to show,
for example 1 means boot CPU only.
- sim710= [SCSI,HW]
- See header of drivers/scsi/sim710.c.
-
simeth= [IA-64]
simscsi=
spia_pedr=
spia_peddr=
- st= [HW,SCSI] SCSI tape parameters (buffers, etc.)
- See Documentation/scsi/st.txt.
-
stacktrace [FTRACE]
Enabled the stack tracer on boot up.
switches= [HW,M68k]
- sym53c416= [HW,SCSI]
- See header of drivers/scsi/sym53c416.c.
-
sysrq_always_enabled
[KNL]
Ignore sysrq setting - this boot parameter will
neutralize any effect of /proc/sys/kernel/sysrq.
Useful for debugging.
- t128= [HW,SCSI]
- See header of drivers/scsi/t128.c.
-
tdfx= [HW,DRM]
test_suspend= [SUSPEND]
<deci-seconds>: poll all this frequency
0: no polling (default)
- tmscsim= [HW,SCSI]
- See comment before function dc390_setup() in
- drivers/scsi/tmscsim.c.
-
topology= [S390]
Format: {off | on}
Specify if the kernel should make use of the cpu
<port#>,<js1>,<js2>,<js3>,<js4>,<js5>,<js6>,<js7>
See also Documentation/input/joystick-parport.txt
- u14-34f= [HW,SCSI] UltraStor 14F/34F SCSI host adapter
- See header of drivers/scsi/u14-34f.c.
-
uhash_entries= [KNL,NET]
Set number of hash buckets for UDP/UDP-Lite connections
overridden by individual drivers. 0 will hide
cursors, 1 will display them.
- wd33c93= [HW,SCSI]
- See header of drivers/scsi/wd33c93.c.
-
- wd7000= [HW,SCSI]
- See header of drivers/scsi/wd7000.c.
-
watchdog timers [HW,WDT] For information on watchdog timers,
see Documentation/watchdog/watchdog-parameters.txt
or other driver-specific files in the
--- /dev/null
+ SCSI Kernel Parameters
+ ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
+
+See Documentation/kernel-parameters.txt for general information on
+specifying module parameters.
+
+This document may not be entirely up to date and comprehensive. The command
+"modinfo -p ${modulename}" shows a current list of all parameters of a loadable
+module. Loadable modules, after being loaded into the running kernel, also
+reveal their parameters in /sys/module/${modulename}/parameters/. Some of these
+parameters may be changed at runtime by the command
+"echo -n ${value} > /sys/module/${modulename}/parameters/${parm}".
+
+
+ advansys= [HW,SCSI]
+ See header of drivers/scsi/advansys.c.
+
+ aha152x= [HW,SCSI]
+ See Documentation/scsi/aha152x.txt.
+
+ aha1542= [HW,SCSI]
+ Format: <portbase>[,<buson>,<busoff>[,<dmaspeed>]]
+
+ aic7xxx= [HW,SCSI]
+ See Documentation/scsi/aic7xxx.txt.
+
+ aic79xx= [HW,SCSI]
+ See Documentation/scsi/aic79xx.txt.
+
+ atascsi= [HW,SCSI] Atari SCSI
+
+ BusLogic= [HW,SCSI]
+ See drivers/scsi/BusLogic.c, comment before function
+ BusLogic_ParseDriverOptions().
+
+ dtc3181e= [HW,SCSI]
+
+ eata= [HW,SCSI]
+
+ fd_mcs= [HW,SCSI]
+ See header of drivers/scsi/fd_mcs.c.
+
+ fdomain= [HW,SCSI]
+ See header of drivers/scsi/fdomain.c.
+
+ gdth= [HW,SCSI]
+ See header of drivers/scsi/gdth.c.
+
+ gvp11= [HW,SCSI]
+
+ ibmmcascsi= [HW,MCA,SCSI] IBM MicroChannel SCSI adapter
+ See Documentation/mca.txt.
+
+ in2000= [HW,SCSI]
+ See header of drivers/scsi/in2000.c.
+
+ ips= [HW,SCSI] Adaptec / IBM ServeRAID controller
+ See header of drivers/scsi/ips.c.
+
+ mac5380= [HW,SCSI] Format:
+ <can_queue>,<cmd_per_lun>,<sg_tablesize>,<hostid>,<use_tags>
+
+ max_luns= [SCSI] Maximum number of LUNs to probe.
+ Should be between 1 and 2^32-1.
+
+ max_report_luns=
+ [SCSI] Maximum number of LUNs received.
+ Should be between 1 and 16384.
+
+ NCR_D700= [HW,SCSI]
+ See header of drivers/scsi/NCR_D700.c.
+
+ ncr5380= [HW,SCSI]
+
+ ncr53c400= [HW,SCSI]
+
+ ncr53c400a= [HW,SCSI]
+
+ ncr53c406a= [HW,SCSI]
+
+ ncr53c8xx= [HW,SCSI]
+
+ nodisconnect [HW,SCSI,M68K] Disables SCSI disconnects.
+
+ osst= [HW,SCSI] SCSI Tape Driver
+ Format: <buffer_size>,<write_threshold>
+ See also Documentation/scsi/st.txt.
+
+ pas16= [HW,SCSI]
+ See header of drivers/scsi/pas16.c.
+
+ scsi_debug_*= [SCSI]
+ See drivers/scsi/scsi_debug.c.
+
+ scsi_default_dev_flags=
+ [SCSI] SCSI default device flags
+ Format: <integer>
+
+ scsi_dev_flags= [SCSI] Black/white list entry for vendor and model
+ Format: <vendor>:<model>:<flags>
+ (flags are integer value)
+
+ scsi_logging_level= [SCSI] a bit mask of logging levels
+ See drivers/scsi/scsi_logging.h for bits. Also
+ settable via sysctl at dev.scsi.logging_level
+ (/proc/sys/dev/scsi/logging_level).
+ There is also a nice 'scsi_logging_level' script in the
+ S390-tools package, available for download at
+ http://www-128.ibm.com/developerworks/linux/linux390/s390-tools-1.5.4.html
+
+ scsi_mod.scan= [SCSI] sync (default) scans SCSI busses as they are
+ discovered. async scans them in kernel threads,
+ allowing boot to proceed. none ignores them, expecting
+ user space to do the scan.
+
+ sim710= [SCSI,HW]
+ See header of drivers/scsi/sim710.c.
+
+ st= [HW,SCSI] SCSI tape parameters (buffers, etc.)
+ See Documentation/scsi/st.txt.
+
+ sym53c416= [HW,SCSI]
+ See header of drivers/scsi/sym53c416.c.
+
+ t128= [HW,SCSI]
+ See header of drivers/scsi/t128.c.
+
+ tmscsim= [HW,SCSI]
+ See comment before function dc390_setup() in
+ drivers/scsi/tmscsim.c.
+
+ u14-34f= [HW,SCSI] UltraStor 14F/34F SCSI host adapter
+ See header of drivers/scsi/u14-34f.c.
+
+ wd33c93= [HW,SCSI]
+ See header of drivers/scsi/wd33c93.c.
+
+ wd7000= [HW,SCSI]
+ See header of drivers/scsi/wd7000.c.