nolapic Don't use the local APIC (alias for i386 compatibility)
- pirq=... See Documentation/i386/IO-APIC.txt
+ pirq=... See Documentation/x86/i386/IO-APIC.txt
noapictimer Don't set up the APIC timer
apicmaintimer. Useful when your PIT timer is totally
broken.
- disable_8254_timer / enable_8254_timer
- Enable interrupt 0 timer routing over the 8254 in addition to over
- the IO-APIC. The kernel tries to set a sensible default.
-
Early Console
syntax: earlyprintk=vga
SMP
additional_cpus=NUM Allow NUM more CPUs for hotplug
- (defaults are specified by the BIOS, see Documentation/x86_64/cpu-hotplug-spec)
+ (defaults are specified by the BIOS, see Documentation/x86/x86_64/cpu-hotplug-spec)
NUMA
iommu options only relevant to the AMD GART hardware IOMMU:
<size> Set the size of the remapping area in bytes.
allowed Overwrite iommu off workarounds for specific chipsets.
+ fullflush Flush IOMMU on each allocation (default).
+ nofullflush Don't use IOMMU fullflush.
leak Turn on simple iommu leak tracing (only when
CONFIG_IOMMU_LEAK is on). Default number of leak pages
is 20.