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@@ -225,14 +225,23 @@
For broken nForce2 BIOS resulting in XT-PIC timer.
acpi_sleep= [HW,ACPI] Sleep options
- Format: { s3_bios, s3_mode, s3_beep, s4_nohwsig,
- old_ordering, nonvs, sci_force_enable, nobl }
+ Format: { s3_bios, s3_mode, s3_beep, s4_hwsig,
+ s4_nohwsig, old_ordering, nonvs,
+ sci_force_enable, nobl }
See Documentation/power/video.rst for information on
s3_bios and s3_mode.
s3_beep is for debugging; it makes the PC's speaker beep
as soon as the kernel's real-mode entry point is called.
+ s4_hwsig causes the kernel to check the ACPI hardware
+ signature during resume from hibernation, and gracefully
+ refuse to resume if it has changed. This complies with
+ the ACPI specification but not with reality, since
+ Windows does not do this and many laptops do change it
+ on docking. So the default behaviour is to allow resume
+ and simply warn when the signature changes, unless the
+ s4_hwsig option is enabled.
s4_nohwsig prevents ACPI hardware signature from being
- used during resume from hibernation.
+ used (or even warned about) during resume.
old_ordering causes the ACPI 1.0 ordering of the _PTS
control method, with respect to putting devices into
low power states, to be enforced (the ACPI 2.0 ordering
@@ -1689,6 +1698,8 @@
architectures force reset to be always executed
i8042.unlock [HW] Unlock (ignore) the keylock
i8042.kbdreset [HW] Reset device connected to KBD port
+ i8042.probe_defer
+ [HW] Allow deferred probing upon i8042 probe errors
i810= [HW,DRM]
@@ -2413,8 +2424,12 @@
Default is 1 (enabled)
kvm-intel.emulate_invalid_guest_state=
- [KVM,Intel] Enable emulation of invalid guest states
- Default is 0 (disabled)
+ [KVM,Intel] Disable emulation of invalid guest state.
+ Ignored if kvm-intel.enable_unrestricted_guest=1, as
+ guest state is never invalid for unrestricted guests.
+ This param doesn't apply to nested guests (L2), as KVM
+ never emulates invalid L2 guest state.
+ Default is 1 (enabled)
kvm-intel.flexpriority=
[KVM,Intel] Disable FlexPriority feature (TPR shadow).
@@ -2934,7 +2949,7 @@
both parameters are enabled, hugetlb_free_vmemmap takes
precedence over memory_hotplug.memmap_on_memory.
- memtest= [KNL,X86,ARM,PPC,RISCV] Enable memtest
+ memtest= [KNL,X86,ARM,M68K,PPC,RISCV] Enable memtest
Format: <integer>
default : 0 <disable>
Specifies the number of memtest passes to be
@@ -3545,6 +3560,13 @@
shutdown the other cpus. Instead use the REBOOT_VECTOR
irq.
+ nomodeset Disable kernel modesetting. DRM drivers will not perform
+ display-mode changes or accelerated rendering. Only the
+ system framebuffer will be available for use if this was
+ set-up by the firmware or boot loader.
+
+ Useful as fallback, or for testing and debugging.
+
nomodule Disable module load
nopat [X86] Disable PAT (page attribute table extension of