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Move SCSI parameters from kernel-parameters.txt to their own text file.

This continues a trend of moving non-core parameters out of
kernel-parameters.txt.

Signed-off-by: Randy Dunlap <randy.dunlap@oracle.com>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
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RAM RAM disk support is enabled.
S390 S390 architecture is enabled.
SCSI Appropriate SCSI support is enabled.
A lot of drivers has their options described inside of
Documentation/scsi/.
A lot of drivers have their options described inside
the Documentation/scsi/ sub-directory.
SECURITY Different security models are enabled.
SELINUX SELinux support is enabled.
APPARMOR AppArmor support is enabled.
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add_efi_memmap [EFI; X86] Include EFI memory map in
kernel's map of available physical RAM.

advansys= [HW,SCSI]
See header of drivers/scsi/advansys.c.

agp= [AGP]
{ off | try_unsupported }
off: disable AGP support
try_unsupported: try to drive unsupported chipsets
(may crash computer or cause data corruption)

aha152x= [HW,SCSI]
See Documentation/scsi/aha152x.txt.

aha1542= [HW,SCSI]
Format: <portbase>[,<buson>,<busoff>[,<dmaspeed>]]

aic7xxx= [HW,SCSI]
See Documentation/scsi/aic7xxx.txt.

aic79xx= [HW,SCSI]
See Documentation/scsi/aic79xx.txt.

ALSA [HW,ALSA]
See Documentation/sound/alsa/alsa-parameters.txt

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atarimouse= [HW,MOUSE] Atari Mouse

atascsi= [HW,SCSI] Atari SCSI

atkbd.extra= [HW] Enable extra LEDs and keys on IBM RapidAccess,
EzKey and similar keyboards

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bttv.pll= See Documentation/video4linux/bttv/Insmod-options
bttv.tuner= and Documentation/video4linux/bttv/CARDLIST

BusLogic= [HW,SCSI]
See drivers/scsi/BusLogic.c, comment before function
BusLogic_ParseDriverOptions().

c101= [NET] Moxa C101 synchronous serial card

cachesize= [BUGS=X86-32] Override level 2 CPU cache size detection.
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dscc4.setup= [NET]

dtc3181e= [HW,SCSI]

dynamic_printk Enables pr_debug()/dev_dbg() calls if
CONFIG_DYNAMIC_PRINTK_DEBUG has been enabled.
These can also be switched on/off via
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This is desgined to be used in conjunction with
the boot argument: earlyprintk=vga

eata= [HW,SCSI]

edd= [EDD]
Format: {"off" | "on" | "skip[mbr]"}

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Format: <interval>,<probability>,<space>,<times>
See also /Documentation/fault-injection/.

fd_mcs= [HW,SCSI]
See header of drivers/scsi/fd_mcs.c.

fdomain= [HW,SCSI]
See header of drivers/scsi/fdomain.c.

floppy= [HW]
See Documentation/blockdev/floppy.txt.

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When zero, profiling data is discarded and associated
debugfs files are removed at module unload time.

gdth= [HW,SCSI]
See header of drivers/scsi/gdth.c.

gpt [EFI] Forces disk with valid GPT signature but
invalid Protective MBR to be treated as GPT.

gvp11= [HW,SCSI]

hashdist= [KNL,NUMA] Large hashes allocated during boot
are distributed across NUMA nodes. Defaults on
for 64bit NUMA, off otherwise.
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i8k.restricted [HW] Allow controlling fans only if SYS_ADMIN
capability is set.

ibmmcascsi= [HW,MCA,SCSI] IBM MicroChannel SCSI adapter
See Documentation/mca.txt.

icn= [HW,ISDN]
Format: <io>[,<membase>[,<icn_id>[,<icn_id2>]]]

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programs exec'd, files mmap'd for exec, and all files
opened for read by uid=0.

in2000= [HW,SCSI]
See header of drivers/scsi/in2000.c.

init= [KNL]
Format: <full_path>
Run specified binary instead of /sbin/init as init
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See comment before ip2_setup() in
drivers/char/ip2/ip2base.c.

ips= [HW,SCSI] Adaptec / IBM ServeRAID controller
See header of drivers/scsi/ips.c.

irqfixup [HW]
When an interrupt is not handled search all handlers
for it. Intended to get systems with badly broken
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ltpc= [NET]
Format: <io>,<irq>,<dma>

mac5380= [HW,SCSI] Format:
<can_queue>,<cmd_per_lun>,<sg_tablesize>,<hostid>,<use_tags>

machvec= [IA64] Force the use of a particular machine-vector
(machvec) in a generic kernel.
Example: machvec=hpzx1_swiotlb
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be mounted
Format: <1-256>

max_luns= [SCSI] Maximum number of LUNs to probe.
Should be between 1 and 2^32-1.

max_report_luns=
[SCSI] Maximum number of LUNs received.
Should be between 1 and 16384.

mcatest= [IA-64]

mce [X86-32] Machine Check Exception
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n2= [NET] SDL Inc. RISCom/N2 synchronous serial card

NCR_D700= [HW,SCSI]
See header of drivers/scsi/NCR_D700.c.

ncr5380= [HW,SCSI]

ncr53c400= [HW,SCSI]

ncr53c400a= [HW,SCSI]

ncr53c406a= [HW,SCSI]

ncr53c8xx= [HW,SCSI]

netdev= [NET] Network devices parameters
Format: <irq>,<io>,<mem_start>,<mem_end>,<name>
Note that mem_start is often overloaded to mean
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OSS [HW,OSS]
See Documentation/sound/oss/oss-parameters.txt

osst= [HW,SCSI] SCSI Tape Driver
Format: <buffer_size>,<write_threshold>
See also Documentation/scsi/st.txt.

panic= [KNL] Kernel behaviour on panic
Format: <timeout>

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Currently this function knows 686a and 8231 chips.
Format: [spp|ps2|epp|ecp|ecpepp]

pas16= [HW,SCSI]
See header of drivers/scsi/pas16.c.

pause_on_oops=
Halt all CPUs after the first oops has been printed for
the specified number of seconds. This is to be used if
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sched_debug [KNL] Enables verbose scheduler debug messages.

scsi_debug_*= [SCSI]
See drivers/scsi/scsi_debug.c.

scsi_default_dev_flags=
[SCSI] SCSI default device flags
Format: <integer>

scsi_dev_flags= [SCSI] Black/white list entry for vendor and model
Format: <vendor>:<model>:<flags>
(flags are integer value)

scsi_logging_level= [SCSI] a bit mask of logging levels
See drivers/scsi/scsi_logging.h for bits. Also
settable via sysctl at dev.scsi.logging_level
(/proc/sys/dev/scsi/logging_level).
There is also a nice 'scsi_logging_level' script in the
S390-tools package, available for download at
http://www-128.ibm.com/developerworks/linux/linux390/s390-tools-1.5.4.html

scsi_mod.scan= [SCSI] sync (default) scans SCSI busses as they are
discovered. async scans them in kernel threads,
allowing boot to proceed. none ignores them, expecting
user space to do the scan.

security= [SECURITY] Choose a security module to enable at boot.
If this boot parameter is not specified, only the first
security module asking for security registration will be
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The parameter means the number of CPUs to show,
for example 1 means boot CPU only.

sim710= [SCSI,HW]
See header of drivers/scsi/sim710.c.

simeth= [IA-64]
simscsi=

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spia_pedr=
spia_peddr=

st= [HW,SCSI] SCSI tape parameters (buffers, etc.)
See Documentation/scsi/st.txt.

stacktrace [FTRACE]
Enabled the stack tracer on boot up.

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switches= [HW,M68k]

sym53c416= [HW,SCSI]
See header of drivers/scsi/sym53c416.c.

sysrq_always_enabled
[KNL]
Ignore sysrq setting - this boot parameter will
neutralize any effect of /proc/sys/kernel/sysrq.
Useful for debugging.

t128= [HW,SCSI]
See header of drivers/scsi/t128.c.

tdfx= [HW,DRM]

test_suspend= [SUSPEND]
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<deci-seconds>: poll all this frequency
0: no polling (default)

tmscsim= [HW,SCSI]
See comment before function dc390_setup() in
drivers/scsi/tmscsim.c.

topology= [S390]
Format: {off | on}
Specify if the kernel should make use of the cpu
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<port#>,<js1>,<js2>,<js3>,<js4>,<js5>,<js6>,<js7>
See also Documentation/input/joystick-parport.txt

u14-34f= [HW,SCSI] UltraStor 14F/34F SCSI host adapter
See header of drivers/scsi/u14-34f.c.

uhash_entries= [KNL,NET]
Set number of hash buckets for UDP/UDP-Lite connections

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overridden by individual drivers. 0 will hide
cursors, 1 will display them.

wd33c93= [HW,SCSI]
See header of drivers/scsi/wd33c93.c.

wd7000= [HW,SCSI]
See header of drivers/scsi/wd7000.c.

watchdog timers [HW,WDT] For information on watchdog timers,
see Documentation/watchdog/watchdog-parameters.txt
or other driver-specific files in the
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