Bug#259381: #259381: More docs needed
Francesco P. Lovergine wrote:
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> They are documented in bootparam(7), unfortunately that man page is
> not either complete or up-to-date, so the final source for info is
> unfortunately Document/kernel-parameters.txt which is not an easy
> reading for many users.
>
I'll guess a cryptic doc is still better than no doc. The patch below
(or something better) would be a partial fix.
I still don't know where its documented that "Local APIC support" was
enabled in this kernel.
--- README.Debian.1st.old 2004-07-17 09:37:33.000000000 +0200
+++ README.Debian.1st 2004-07-17 09:49:13.000000000 +0200
@@ -14,6 +14,11 @@
http://lists.insecure.org/lists/linux-kernel/2002/Sep/5966.html
+Compaq AMD's
+------------------
+Some Compaq's hangs when "Local APIC Support" is enabled. A workaround is to
+pass the parameter "nolapic" to the kernel.
+
mem= on 2.4.19 and later
------------------------
mem=xxxM can no longer be used to enlarge the RAM that the kernel uses.
@@ -30,6 +35,11 @@
The bswap option is obsolete and may disappear in future. For the moment
it does work provided that you disable dma with the nodma option.
+kernel parameters
+-----------------
+The parameters understood by this kernel is documented in
+/usr/share/doc/kernel-doc-2.6.7/Documentation/kernel-parameters.txt.gz
+
These patches were applied:
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/Magnus Ekdahl
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