From 4996c02306a25def1d352ec8e8f48895bbc7dea9 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Takao Indoh Date: Thu, 14 Jul 2011 18:05:21 -0400 Subject: ACPI: introduce "acpi_rsdp=" parameter for kdump There is a problem with putting the first kernel in EFI virtual mode, it is that when the second kernel comes up it tries to initialize the EFI again and once we have put EFI in virtual mode we can not really do that. Actually, EFI is not necessary for kdump, we can boot the second kernel with "noefi" parameter, but the boot will mostly fail because 2nd kernel cannot find RSDP. In this situation, we introduced "acpi_rsdp=" kernel parameter, so that kexec-tools can pass the "noefi acpi_rsdp=X" to the second kernel to make kdump works. The physical address of the RSDP can be got from sysfs(/sys/firmware/efi/systab). Signed-off-by: Takao Indoh Reviewed-by: WANG Cong Reviewed-by: Konrad Rzeszutek Wilk Signed-off-by: Len Brown --- Documentation/kernel-parameters.txt | 5 +++++ 1 file changed, 5 insertions(+) (limited to 'Documentation') diff --git a/Documentation/kernel-parameters.txt b/Documentation/kernel-parameters.txt index aa47be71df4c..37713bcf7778 100644 --- a/Documentation/kernel-parameters.txt +++ b/Documentation/kernel-parameters.txt @@ -163,6 +163,11 @@ bytes respectively. Such letter suffixes can also be entirely omitted. See also Documentation/power/pm.txt, pci=noacpi + acpi_rsdp= [ACPI,EFI,KEXEC] + Pass the RSDP address to the kernel, mostly used + on machines running EFI runtime service to boot the + second kernel for kdump. + acpi_apic_instance= [ACPI, IOAPIC] Format: 2: use 2nd APIC table, if available -- cgit v1.2.3 From ab92402af04c151c26541eb28e1c26286a429db5 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Jean Delvare Date: Thu, 28 Jul 2011 13:48:40 -0700 Subject: thermal: hide CONFIG_THERMAL_HWMON It's about time to revert 16d752397301b9 ("thermal: Create CONFIG_THERMAL_HWMON=n"). Anybody running a kernel >= 2.6.40 would also be running a recent enough version of lm-sensors. Actually having CONFIG_THERMAL_HWMON is pretty convenient so instead of dropping it, we keep it but hide it. Signed-off-by: Jean Delvare Cc: Rene Herman Acked-by: Guenter Roeck Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton Signed-off-by: Len Brown --- Documentation/feature-removal-schedule.txt | 9 --------- 1 file changed, 9 deletions(-) (limited to 'Documentation') diff --git a/Documentation/feature-removal-schedule.txt b/Documentation/feature-removal-schedule.txt index b1c921c27519..951143dd0684 100644 --- a/Documentation/feature-removal-schedule.txt +++ b/Documentation/feature-removal-schedule.txt @@ -310,15 +310,6 @@ Who: Ravikiran Thirumalai --------------------------- -What: CONFIG_THERMAL_HWMON -When: January 2009 -Why: This option was introduced just to allow older lm-sensors userspace - to keep working over the upgrade to 2.6.26. At the scheduled time of - removal fixed lm-sensors (2.x or 3.x) should be readily available. -Who: Rene Herman - ---------------------------- - What: Code that is now under CONFIG_WIRELESS_EXT_SYSFS (in net/core/net-sysfs.c) When: After the only user (hal) has seen a release with the patches -- cgit v1.2.3 From 6c8111e9a0e73ef1e58a1bf0a10c23ee1512e7a2 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Len Brown Date: Tue, 2 Aug 2011 17:15:33 -0400 Subject: ACPI: delete stale reference in kernel-parameters.txt Says for acpi= See also Documentation/power/pm.txt, pci=noacpi but this file does not exist Reported-by: Alan Cox Signed-off-by: Len Brown --- Documentation/kernel-parameters.txt | 2 -- 1 file changed, 2 deletions(-) (limited to 'Documentation') diff --git a/Documentation/kernel-parameters.txt b/Documentation/kernel-parameters.txt index aa47be71df4c..53800c2712e6 100644 --- a/Documentation/kernel-parameters.txt +++ b/Documentation/kernel-parameters.txt @@ -161,8 +161,6 @@ bytes respectively. Such letter suffixes can also be entirely omitted. rsdt -- prefer RSDT over (default) XSDT copy_dsdt -- copy DSDT to memory - See also Documentation/power/pm.txt, pci=noacpi - acpi_apic_instance= [ACPI, IOAPIC] Format: 2: use 2nd APIC table, if available -- cgit v1.2.3