linux-kernel - [PATCH 03/12] SFI: document boot param "sfi=off"

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Date:	Wed, 08 Jul 2009 00:13:49 -0400
From:	Len Brown <lenb@...nel.org>
To:	x86@...nel.org, sfi-devel@...plefirmware.org,
	linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org, linux-acpi@...r.kernel.org
Cc:	Feng Tang <feng.tang@...el.com>, Len Brown <len.brown@...el.com>
Subject: [PATCH 03/12] SFI: document boot param "sfi=off"

From: Feng Tang <feng.tang@...el.com>

"sfi=off" is analogous to "acpi=off"

In practice, "sfi=off" isn't likely to be very useful, for
1. SFI is used only when ACPI is not available
2. Today's SFI systems are not legacy PC-compatible

ie. "sfi=off" on an ACPI-platform is a NO-OP,
and "sfi=off" on an SFI-platform will likely result in boot failure.

Signed-off-by: Feng Tang <feng.tang@...el.com>
Signed-off-by: Len Brown <len.brown@...el.com>
---
 Documentation/kernel-parameters.txt |    5 +++++
 1 files changed, 5 insertions(+), 0 deletions(-)

diff --git a/Documentation/kernel-parameters.txt b/Documentation/kernel-parameters.txt
index d77fbd8..68337e6 100644
--- a/Documentation/kernel-parameters.txt
+++ b/Documentation/kernel-parameters.txt
@@ -92,6 +92,7 @@ parameter is applicable:
 	SECURITY Different security models are enabled.
 	SELINUX SELinux support is enabled.
 	SERIAL	Serial support is enabled.
+	SFI	Simple Firmware Interface
 	SH	SuperH architecture is enabled.
 	SMP	The kernel is an SMP kernel.
 	SPARC	Sparc architecture is enabled.
@@ -2162,6 +2163,10 @@ and is between 256 and 4096 characters. It is defined in the file
 			If enabled at boot time, /selinux/disable can be used
 			later to disable prior to initial policy load.
 
+	sfi=		[SFI,X86] Simple Firmware Interface
+			Format: { "off" }
+			off -- disable SFI
+
 	serialnumber	[BUGS=X86-32]
 
 	shapers=	[NET]
-- 
1.6.0.6

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