From: Len Brown <lenb@kernel.org>
To: x86@kernel.org, sfi-devel@simplefirmware.org,
linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, linux-acpi@vger.kernel.org
Cc: Feng Tang <feng.tang@intel.com>, Len Brown <len.brown@intel.com>
Subject: [PATCH 03/12] SFI: document boot param "sfi=off"
Date: Wed, 08 Jul 2009 00:13:49 -0400 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <57dac60d76c191e3bd72f186833fac01e4c5f8f1.1247025117.git.len.brown@intel.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1247026438-20891-1-git-send-email-lenb@kernel.org>
In-Reply-To: <8e4a93858bce74ed3080dd607aa471023f1a2737.1247025117.git.len.brown@intel.com>
From: Feng Tang <feng.tang@intel.com>
"sfi=off" is analogous to "acpi=off"
In practice, "sfi=off" isn't likely to be very useful, for
1. SFI is used only when ACPI is not available
2. Today's SFI systems are not legacy PC-compatible
ie. "sfi=off" on an ACPI-platform is a NO-OP,
and "sfi=off" on an SFI-platform will likely result in boot failure.
Signed-off-by: Feng Tang <feng.tang@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Len Brown <len.brown@intel.com>
---
Documentation/kernel-parameters.txt | 5 +++++
1 files changed, 5 insertions(+), 0 deletions(-)
diff --git a/Documentation/kernel-parameters.txt b/Documentation/kernel-parameters.txt
index d77fbd8..68337e6 100644
--- a/Documentation/kernel-parameters.txt
+++ b/Documentation/kernel-parameters.txt
@@ -92,6 +92,7 @@ parameter is applicable:
SECURITY Different security models are enabled.
SELINUX SELinux support is enabled.
SERIAL Serial support is enabled.
+ SFI Simple Firmware Interface
SH SuperH architecture is enabled.
SMP The kernel is an SMP kernel.
SPARC Sparc architecture is enabled.
@@ -2162,6 +2163,10 @@ and is between 256 and 4096 characters. It is defined in the file
If enabled at boot time, /selinux/disable can be used
later to disable prior to initial policy load.
+ sfi= [SFI,X86] Simple Firmware Interface
+ Format: { "off" }
+ off -- disable SFI
+
serialnumber [BUGS=X86-32]
shapers= [NET]
--
1.6.0.6
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2009-07-08 4:15 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 31+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2009-07-08 4:13 [PATCH v2 for 2.6.32] SFI - Simple Firmware Interface support Len Brown
2009-07-08 4:13 ` [PATCH 01/12] SFI: Simple Firmware Interface - new MAINTAINERS entry Len Brown
2009-07-08 4:13 ` [PATCH 02/12] SFI, x86: add CONFIG_SFI Len Brown
2009-07-10 5:23 ` Ingo Molnar
2009-07-08 4:13 ` Len Brown [this message]
2009-07-28 19:24 ` [PATCH 03/12] SFI: document boot param "sfi=off" Bjorn Helgaas
2009-07-28 19:52 ` Len Brown
2009-07-08 4:13 ` [PATCH 04/12] SFI: create include/linux/sfi.h Len Brown
2009-07-10 6:48 ` Ingo Molnar
2009-07-08 4:13 ` [PATCH 05/12] SFI: add core support Len Brown
2009-07-10 7:40 ` Ingo Molnar
2009-07-08 4:13 ` [PATCH 06/12] ACPI, x86: remove ACPI dependency on some IO-APIC routines Len Brown
2009-07-10 6:51 ` Ingo Molnar
2009-07-08 4:13 ` [PATCH 07/12] SFI: add x86 support Len Brown
2009-07-10 6:37 ` Ingo Molnar
2009-07-10 6:48 ` Feng Tang
2009-07-08 4:13 ` [PATCH 08/12] SFI, x86: hook e820() for memory map initialization Len Brown
2009-07-08 21:37 ` H. Peter Anvin
2009-07-09 1:11 ` Feng Tang
2009-07-09 3:57 ` H. Peter Anvin
2009-07-08 4:13 ` [PATCH 09/12] SFI: Enable SFI to parse ACPI tables Len Brown
2009-07-10 6:10 ` Ingo Molnar
2009-07-08 4:13 ` [PATCH 10/12] ACPI: check acpi_disabled in acpi_table_parse() Len Brown
2009-07-08 4:13 ` [PATCH 11/12] SFI, PCI: Hook MMCONFIG Len Brown
2009-07-10 5:52 ` Ingo Molnar
2009-07-10 7:17 ` Feng Tang
2009-07-10 11:14 ` Ingo Molnar
2009-07-08 4:13 ` [PATCH 12/12] SFI: add boot-time initialization hooks Len Brown
2009-07-10 5:18 ` [PATCH v2 for 2.6.32] SFI - Simple Firmware Interface support Ingo Molnar
2009-07-11 1:01 ` Len Brown
2009-07-11 8:26 ` Ingo Molnar
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