linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH 16/34] AMD IOMMU: add kernel command line parameters for AMD IOMMU

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Message-Id: <20080710134251.b2591ea8.randy.dunlap@oracle.com>
Date:	Thu, 10 Jul 2008 13:42:51 -0700
From:	Randy Dunlap <randy.dunlap@...cle.com>
To:	Ingo Molnar <mingo@...e.hu>
Cc:	Andrew Morton <akpm@...ux-foundation.org>,
	FUJITA Tomonori <fujita.tomonori@....ntt.co.jp>,
	joerg.roedel@....com, tglx@...utronix.de, mingo@...hat.com,
	linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org, iommu@...ts.linux-foundation.org,
	bhavna.sarathy@....com, Sebastian.Biemueller@....com,
	robert.richter@....com, joro@...tes.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH 16/34] AMD IOMMU: add kernel command line parameters for
 AMD IOMMU

On Thu, 10 Jul 2008 08:26:03 +0200 Ingo Molnar wrote:

> 
> * Andrew Morton <akpm@...ux-foundation.org> wrote:
> 
> > On Thu, 10 Jul 2008 13:25:23 +0900 FUJITA Tomonori <fujita.tomonori@....ntt.co.jp> wrote:
> > 
> > > I have one related question, we should document all the kernel boot
> > > parameters in Documentation/kernel-parameters.txt?
> > > 
> > > Some of x86_64 boot parameters are in
> > > Documentations/x86/x86_64/boot-options.txt. The parameters of IOMMUs
> > > are scattered. It's confusing.
> > 
> > A single monolithic file has advantages.  I think I'd prefer that 
> > personally.  I'd forgotten that the x86-specific one exists, actually.
> 
> yeah, it should be all in Documentation/kernel-parameters.txt.

Agreed.

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