Date: Tue, 14 Sep 2004 10:17:49 -0700
From: Deepak Saxena <dsaxena@plexity.net>
To: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>, Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: [PATCH] Document ARM pci=firmware option
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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 <dsaxena@plexity.net>

===== 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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