2004-09-14 17:23:13

by Deepak Saxena

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Subject: [PATCH] Document ARM pci=firmware option


Added a new pci= command line option specific to ARM systems in
-rc2 and it should be added to kernel-parameters.txt.

Please apply,
~Deepak

Signed-off-by: Deepak Saxena <[email protected]>

===== Documentation/kernel-parameters.txt 1.47 vs edited =====
--- 1.47/Documentation/kernel-parameters.txt Thu Aug 26 23:30:30 2004
+++ edited/Documentation/kernel-parameters.txt Tue Sep 14 09:53:56 2004
@@ -878,6 +878,12 @@
enabled.
noacpi [IA-32] Do not use ACPI for IRQ routing
or for PCI scanning.
+ firmware [ARM] Do not re-enumerate the bus but
+ instead just use the configuration
+ from the bootloader. This is currently
+ used on IXP2000 systems where the
+ bus has to be configured a certain way
+ for adjunct CPUs.

pcmv= [HW,PCMCIA] BadgePAD 4


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