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authorDave Airlie <airlied@redhat.com>2011-03-14 14:15:13 +1000
committerDave Airlie <airlied@redhat.com>2011-03-14 14:15:13 +1000
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parent47ae63e0c2e5fdb582d471dc906eb29be94c732f (diff)
Merge remote branch 'intel/drm-intel-next' of ../drm-next into drm-core-next
* 'intel/drm-intel-next' of ../drm-next: (755 commits) drm/i915: Only wait on a pending flip if we intend to write to the buffer drm/i915/dp: Sanity check eDP existence drm/i915: Rebind the buffer if its alignment constraints changes with tiling drm/i915: Disable GPU semaphores by default drm/i915: Do not overflow the MMADDR write FIFO Revert "drm/i915: fix corruptions on i8xx due to relaxed fencing" drm/i915: Don't save/restore hardware status page address register drm/i915: don't store the reg value for HWS_PGA drm/i915: fix memory corruption with GM965 and >4GB RAM Linux 2.6.38-rc7 Revert "TPM: Long default timeout fix" drm/i915: Re-enable GPU semaphores for SandyBridge mobile drm/i915: Replace vblank PM QoS with "Interrupt-Based AGPBUSY#" Revert "drm/i915: Use PM QoS to prevent C-State starvation of gen3 GPU" drm/i915: Allow relocation deltas outside of target bo drm/i915: Silence an innocuous compiler warning for an unused variable fs/block_dev.c: fix new kernel-doc warning ACPI: Fix build for CONFIG_NET unset mm: <asm-generic/pgtable.h> must include <linux/mm_types.h> x86: Use u32 instead of long to set reset vector back to 0 ... Conflicts: drivers/gpu/drm/i915/i915_gem.c
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index 89835a4766a..f4a04c0c7ed 100644
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@@ -144,6 +144,11 @@ a fixed number of characters. This limit depends on the architecture
and is between 256 and 4096 characters. It is defined in the file
./include/asm/setup.h as COMMAND_LINE_SIZE.
+Finally, the [KMG] suffix is commonly described after a number of kernel
+parameter values. These 'K', 'M', and 'G' letters represent the _binary_
+multipliers 'Kilo', 'Mega', and 'Giga', equalling 2^10, 2^20, and 2^30
+bytes respectively. Such letter suffixes can also be entirely omitted.
+
acpi= [HW,ACPI,X86]
Advanced Configuration and Power Interface
@@ -545,16 +550,20 @@ and is between 256 and 4096 characters. It is defined in the file
Format:
<first_slot>,<last_slot>,<port>,<enum_bit>[,<debug>]
- crashkernel=nn[KMG]@ss[KMG]
- [KNL] Reserve a chunk of physical memory to
- hold a kernel to switch to with kexec on panic.
+ crashkernel=size[KMG][@offset[KMG]]
+ [KNL] Using kexec, Linux can switch to a 'crash kernel'
+ upon panic. This parameter reserves the physical
+ memory region [offset, offset + size] for that kernel
+ image. If '@offset' is omitted, then a suitable offset
+ is selected automatically. Check
+ Documentation/kdump/kdump.txt for further details.
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.
+ Documentation/kdump/kdump.txt for an example.
cs89x0_dma= [HW,NET]
Format: <dma>
@@ -1262,10 +1271,9 @@ and is between 256 and 4096 characters. It is defined in the file
6 (KERN_INFO) informational
7 (KERN_DEBUG) debug-level messages
- log_buf_len=n Sets the size of the printk ring buffer, in bytes.
- Format: { n | nk | nM }
- n must be a power of two. The default size
- is set in the kernel config file.
+ log_buf_len=n[KMG] Sets the size of the printk ring buffer,
+ in bytes. 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