Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1758648AbZGHEPU (ORCPT ); Wed, 8 Jul 2009 00:15:20 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1750918AbZGHEOb (ORCPT ); Wed, 8 Jul 2009 00:14:31 -0400 Received: from vms173019pub.verizon.net ([206.46.173.19]:46912 "EHLO vms173019pub.verizon.net" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1751194AbZGHEOI (ORCPT ); Wed, 8 Jul 2009 00:14:08 -0400 From: Len Brown To: x86@kernel.org, sfi-devel@simplefirmware.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, linux-acpi@vger.kernel.org Cc: Feng Tang , Len Brown Subject: [PATCH 03/12] SFI: document boot param "sfi=off" Date: Wed, 08 Jul 2009 00:13:49 -0400 Message-id: <57dac60d76c191e3bd72f186833fac01e4c5f8f1.1247025117.git.len.brown@intel.com> X-Mailer: git-send-email 1.6.3.3.385.g60647 In-reply-to: <1247026438-20891-1-git-send-email-lenb@kernel.org> References: <1247026438-20891-1-git-send-email-lenb@kernel.org> In-reply-to: <8e4a93858bce74ed3080dd607aa471023f1a2737.1247025117.git.len.brown@intel.com> References: <8e4a93858bce74ed3080dd607aa471023f1a2737.1247025117.git.len.brown@intel.com> X-Patchwork-Hint: ignore Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 1659 Lines: 48 From: Feng Tang "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 Signed-off-by: Len Brown --- 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 -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/