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@@ -110,6 +110,13 @@ be entered as an environment variable, whereas its absence indicates that
it will appear as a kernel argument readable via /proc/cmdline by programs
running once the system is up.
+The number of kernel parameters is not limited, but the length of the
+complete command line (parameters including spaces etc.) is limited to
+a fixed number of characters. This limit depends on the architecture
+and is between 256 and 4096 characters. It is defined in the file
+./include/asm/setup.h as COMMAND_LINE_SIZE.
+
+
53c7xx= [HW,SCSI] Amiga SCSI controllers
See header of drivers/scsi/53c7xx.c.
See also Documentation/scsi/ncr53c7xx.txt.
@@ -1324,7 +1331,7 @@ running once the system is up.
pt. [PARIDE]
See Documentation/paride.txt.
- quiet= [KNL] Disable log messages
+ quiet [KNL] Disable most log messages
r128= [HW,DRM]