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+ ACPI ACPI support is enabled.
+ AGP AGP (Accelerated Graphics Port) is enabled.
+ ALSA ALSA sound support is enabled.
+ APIC APIC support is enabled.
+ APM Advanced Power Management support is enabled.
+ APPARMOR AppArmor support is enabled.
+ ARM ARM architecture is enabled.
+ ARM64 ARM64 architecture is enabled.
+ AX25 Appropriate AX.25 support is enabled.
+ CLK Common clock infrastructure is enabled.
+ CMA Contiguous Memory Area support is enabled.
+ DRM Direct Rendering Management support is enabled.
+ DYNAMIC_DEBUG Build in debug messages and enable them at runtime
+ EARLY Parameter processed too early to be embedded in initrd.
+ EDD BIOS Enhanced Disk Drive Services (EDD) is enabled
+ EFI EFI Partitioning (GPT) is enabled
+ EVM Extended Verification Module
+ FB The frame buffer device is enabled.
+ FTRACE Function tracing enabled.
+ GCOV GCOV profiling is enabled.
+ HIBERNATION HIBERNATION is enabled.
+ HW Appropriate hardware is enabled.
+ HYPER_V HYPERV support is enabled.
+ IMA Integrity measurement architecture is enabled.
+ IP_PNP IP DHCP, BOOTP, or RARP is enabled.
+ IPV6 IPv6 support is enabled.
+ ISAPNP ISA PnP code is enabled.
+ ISDN Appropriate ISDN support is enabled.
+ ISOL CPU Isolation is enabled.
+ JOY Appropriate joystick support is enabled.
+ KGDB Kernel debugger support is enabled.
+ KVM Kernel Virtual Machine support is enabled.
+ LIBATA Libata driver is enabled
+ LOONGARCH LoongArch architecture is enabled.
+ LOOP Loopback device support is enabled.
+ LP Printer support is enabled.
+ M68k M68k architecture is enabled.
+ These options have more detailed description inside of
+ Documentation/arch/m68k/kernel-options.rst.
+ MDA MDA console support is enabled.
+ MIPS MIPS architecture is enabled.
+ MOUSE Appropriate mouse support is enabled.
+ MSI Message Signaled Interrupts (PCI).
+ MTD MTD (Memory Technology Device) support is enabled.
+ NET Appropriate network support is enabled.
+ NFS Appropriate NFS support is enabled.
+ NUMA NUMA support is enabled.
+ OF Devicetree 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.
+ PV_OPS A paravirtualized kernel is enabled.
+ RAM RAM disk support is enabled.
+ RDT Intel Resource Director Technology.
+ RISCV RISCV architecture is enabled.
+ S390 S390 architecture is enabled.
+ SCSI Appropriate SCSI support is enabled.
+ A lot of drivers have their options described inside
+ the Documentation/scsi/ sub-directory.
+ SDW SoundWire support is enabled.
+ SECURITY Different security models are enabled.
+ SELINUX SELinux support is enabled.
+ SERIAL Serial support is enabled.
+ SH SuperH architecture is enabled.
+ SMP The kernel is an SMP kernel.
+ SPARC Sparc architecture is enabled.
+ SUSPEND System suspend states are enabled.
+ SWSUSP Software suspend (hibernation) is enabled.
+ TPM TPM drivers are enabled.
+ UMS USB Mass Storage support is enabled.
+ USB USB support is enabled.
+ USBHID USB Human Interface Device support is enabled.
+ V4L Video For Linux support is enabled.
+ VGA The VGA console has been enabled.
+ VMMIO Driver for memory mapped virtio devices is enabled.
+ VT Virtual terminal support is enabled.
+ WDT Watchdog support is enabled.
+ X86-32 X86-32, aka i386 architecture is enabled.
+ X86-64 X86-64 architecture is enabled.
+ X86 Either 32-bit or 64-bit x86 (same as X86-32+X86-64)
+ X86_UV SGI UV support is enabled.
+ XEN Xen support is enabled
+ XTENSA xtensa architecture is enabled.
+
+In addition, the following text indicates that the option
+
+ BOOT Is a boot loader parameter.
+ BUGS= Relates to possible processor bugs on the said processor.
+ KNL Is a kernel start-up parameter.
+
+
+Kernel parameters
+
accept_memory= [MM]
Format: { eager | lazy }
default: lazy
@@ -1907,6 +2005,16 @@
/sys/power/pm_test). Only available when CONFIG_PM_DEBUG
is set. Default value is 5.
+ hibernate_compression_threads=
+ [HIBERNATION]
+ Set the number of threads used for compressing or decompressing
+ hibernation images.
+
+ Format: <integer>
+ Default: 3
+ Minimum: 1
+ Example: hibernate_compression_threads=4
+
highmem=nn[KMG] [KNL,BOOT,EARLY] forces the highmem zone to have an exact
size of <nn>. This works even on boxes that have no
highmem otherwise. This also works to reduce highmem
@@ -6207,7 +6315,7 @@
rdt= [HW,X86,RDT]
Turn on/off individual RDT features. List is:
cmt, mbmtotal, mbmlocal, l3cat, l3cdp, l2cat, l2cdp,
- mba, smba, bmec, abmc.
+ mba, smba, bmec, abmc, sdciae.
E.g. to turn on cmt and turn off mba use:
rdt=cmt,!mba
@@ -6404,7 +6512,7 @@
that don't.
off - no mitigation
- auto - automatically select a migitation
+ auto - automatically select a mitigation
auto,nosmt - automatically select a mitigation,
disabling SMT if necessary for
the full mitigation (only on Zen1
@@ -6500,6 +6608,10 @@
Memory area to be used by remote processor image,
managed by CMA.
+ rseq_debug= [KNL] Enable or disable restartable sequence
+ debug mode. Defaults to CONFIG_RSEQ_DEBUG_DEFAULT_ENABLE.
+ Format: <bool>
+
rt_group_sched= [KNL] Enable or disable SCHED_RR/FIFO group scheduling
when CONFIG_RT_GROUP_SCHED=y. Defaults to
!CONFIG_RT_GROUP_SCHED_DEFAULT_DISABLED.
@@ -7150,7 +7262,7 @@
limit. Default value is 8191 pools.
stacktrace [FTRACE]
- Enabled the stack tracer on boot up.
+ Enable the stack tracer on boot up.
stacktrace_filter=[function-list]
[FTRACE] Limit the functions that the stack tracer