2007-09-22 18:25:39

by Bernhard Walle

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Subject: [PATCH] Add extended crashkernel syntax to kernel-parameters.txt

This adds the documentation for the extended crashkernel syntax into
Documentation/kernel-parameters.txt.


Signed-off-by: Bernhard Walle <[email protected]>

---
Documentation/kernel-parameters.txt | 7 +++++++
1 file changed, 7 insertions(+)

--- a/Documentation/kernel-parameters.txt
+++ b/Documentation/kernel-parameters.txt
@@ -498,6 +498,13 @@ and is between 256 and 4096 characters.
[KNL] Reserve a chunk of physical memory to
hold a kernel to switch to with kexec on panic.

+ 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.
+
cs4232= [HW,OSS]
Format: <io>,<irq>,<dma>,<dma2>,<mpuio>,<mpuirq>