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Message-Id: <1409857626-55464-1-git-send-email-fenghua.yu@intel.com> Date: Thu, 4 Sep 2014 12:07:06 -0700 From: "Fenghua Yu" <fenghua.yu@...el.com> To: "H. Peter Anvin" <hpa@...ux.intel.com>, "Ingo Molnar" <mingo@...e.hu>, "Thomas Gleixner" <tglx@...utronix.de>, "Borislav Petkov" <bp@...en8.de>, "Henrique de Moraes Holschuh" <hmh@....eng.br> Cc: "linux-kernel" <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>, "x86" <x86@...nel.org>, "Fenghua Yu" <fenghua.yu@...el.com> Subject: [PATCH] x86/microcode: add parameter dis_ucode_ldr in kernel-paramenters.txt From: Fenghua Yu <fenghua.yu@...el.com> The kernel parameter dis_ucode_ldr disables early loading microcode from initrd. The parameter was introduced earlier by Borislave Petkov. This patch adds the explanation for this parameter in Documentation/kernel-parameters.txt for user convenience. Signed-off-by: Fenghua Yu <fenghua.yu@...el.com> --- Documentation/kernel-parameters.txt | 7 +++++++ 1 file changed, 7 insertions(+) diff --git a/Documentation/kernel-parameters.txt b/Documentation/kernel-parameters.txt index 5ae8608..eef098f 100644 --- a/Documentation/kernel-parameters.txt +++ b/Documentation/kernel-parameters.txt @@ -841,6 +841,13 @@ bytes respectively. Such letter suffixes can also be entirely omitted. dhash_entries= [KNL] Set number of hash buckets for dentry cache. + dis_ucode_ldr [X86] + This parameter disables the early microcode loader. + This is useful mostly in debugging situations where + we want to turn off early microcode loading from the + initrd, as a means to be able to rule out its + influence on the machine. + disable= [IPV6] See Documentation/networking/ipv6.txt. -- 1.8.1.2 -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@...r.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/
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