2013-09-23 19:37:18

by Richard Weinberger

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Subject: [PATCH] Documentation: Update x86_64/boot-options.txt

Removed obsolte parameters from boot-options.txt.
Verified by grepping around in arch/x86/.

Signed-off-by: Richard Weinberger <[email protected]>
---
Documentation/x86/x86_64/boot-options.txt | 23 -----------------------
1 file changed, 23 deletions(-)

diff --git a/Documentation/x86/x86_64/boot-options.txt b/Documentation/x86/x86_64/boot-options.txt
index 1228b22..5223479 100644
--- a/Documentation/x86/x86_64/boot-options.txt
+++ b/Documentation/x86/x86_64/boot-options.txt
@@ -78,14 +78,6 @@ APICs

no_timer_check Don't check the IO-APIC timer. This can work around
problems with incorrect timer initialization on some boards.
-
- apicmaintimer Run time keeping from the local APIC timer instead
- of using the PIT/HPET interrupt for this. This is useful
- when the PIT/HPET interrupts are unreliable.
-
- noapicmaintimer Don't do time keeping using the APIC timer.
- Useful when this option was auto selected, but doesn't work.
-
apicpmtimer
Do APIC timer calibration using the pmtimer. Implies
apicmaintimer. Useful when your PIT timer is totally
@@ -144,11 +136,6 @@ Non Executable Mappings
on Enable(default)
off Disable

-SMP
-
- additional_cpus=NUM Allow NUM more CPUs for hotplug
- (defaults are specified by the BIOS, see Documentation/x86/x86_64/cpu-hotplug-spec)
-
NUMA

numa=off Only set up a single NUMA node spanning all memory.
@@ -289,16 +276,6 @@ Debugging

kstack=N Print N words from the kernel stack in oops dumps.

- pagefaulttrace Dump all page faults. Only useful for extreme debugging
- and will create a lot of output.
-
- call_trace=[old|both|newfallback|new]
- old: use old inexact backtracer
- new: use new exact dwarf2 unwinder
- both: print entries from both
- newfallback: use new unwinder but fall back to old if it gets
- stuck (default)
-
Miscellaneous

nogbpages
--
1.8.3.1


2013-09-23 23:58:59

by Rob Landley

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Subject: Re: [PATCH] Documentation: Update x86_64/boot-options.txt

On 09/23/2013 02:36:57 PM, Richard Weinberger wrote:
> Removed obsolte parameters from boot-options.txt.
> Verified by grepping around in arch/x86/.
>
> Signed-off-by: Richard Weinberger <[email protected]>

Acked-by: Rob Landley <[email protected]>

And added it as patch #33 to my documentation todo heap. Now the merge
window's worked its way through I should filter out the ones other
people sent upstream and flush the queue. (Since everybody and their
dog grabs documentation patches, forwarding 'em promptly just causes
dupes, but it's about time to see what didn't already make it...)

Rob-