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        bert_disable    [ACPI]
                        Disable BERT OS support on buggy BIOSes.
 
+       bgrt_disable    [ACPI][X86]
+                       Disable BGRT to avoid flickering OEM logo.
+
        bttv.card=      [HW,V4L] bttv (bt848 + bt878 based grabber cards)
        bttv.radio=     Most important insmod options are available as
                        kernel args too.
                        A valid base address must be provided, and the serial
                        port must already be setup and configured.
 
+               ec_imx21,<addr>
+               ec_imx6q,<addr>
+                       Start an early, polled-mode, output-only console on the
+                       Freescale i.MX UART at the specified address. The UART
+                       must already be setup and configured.
+
                ar3700_uart,<addr>
                        Start an early, polled-mode console on the
                        Armada 3700 serial port at the specified
                        can be changed at run time by the max_graph_depth file
                        in the tracefs tracing directory. default: 0 (no limit)
 
+       fw_devlink=     [KNL] Create device links between consumer and supplier
+                       devices by scanning the firmware to infer the
+                       consumer/supplier relationships. This feature is
+                       especially useful when drivers are loaded as modules as
+                       it ensures proper ordering of tasks like device probing
+                       (suppliers first, then consumers), supplier boot state
+                       clean up (only after all consumers have probed),
+                       suspend/resume & runtime PM (consumers first, then
+                       suppliers).
+                       Format: { off | permissive | on | rpm }
+                       off --  Don't create device links from firmware info.
+                       permissive -- Create device links from firmware info
+                               but use it only for ordering boot state clean
+                               up (sync_state() calls).
+                       on --   Create device links from firmware info and use it
+                               to enforce probe and suspend/resume ordering.
+                       rpm --  Like "on", but also use to order runtime PM.
+
        gamecon.map[2|3]=
                        [HW,JOY] Multisystem joystick and NES/SNES/PSX pad
                        support via parallel port (up to 5 devices per port)
                        provided by tboot because it makes the system
                        vulnerable to DMA attacks.
                nobounce [Default off]
-                       Disable bounce buffer for unstrusted devices such as
+                       Disable bounce buffer for untrusted devices such as
                        the Thunderbolt devices. This will treat the untrusted
                        devices as the trusted ones, hence might expose security
                        risks of DMA attacks.
                        No delay
 
        ip=             [IP_PNP]
-                       See Documentation/filesystems/nfs/nfsroot.txt.
+                       See Documentation/admin-guide/nfs/nfsroot.rst.
 
        ipcmni_extend   [KNL] Extend the maximum number of unique System V
                        IPC identifiers from 32,768 to 16,777,216.
                        <name>,<region-number>[,<base>,<size>,<buswidth>,<altbuswidth>]
 
        mtdparts=       [MTD]
-                       See drivers/mtd/cmdlinepart.c.
+                       See drivers/mtd/parsers/cmdlinepart.c
 
        multitce=off    [PPC]  This parameter disables the use of the pSeries
                        firmware feature for updating multiple TCE entries
                        Default value is 0.
 
        nfsaddrs=       [NFS] Deprecated.  Use ip= instead.
-                       See Documentation/filesystems/nfs/nfsroot.txt.
+                       See Documentation/admin-guide/nfs/nfsroot.rst.
 
        nfsroot=        [NFS] nfs root filesystem for disk-less boxes.
-                       See Documentation/filesystems/nfs/nfsroot.txt.
+                       See Documentation/admin-guide/nfs/nfsroot.rst.
 
        nfsrootdebug    [NFS] enable nfsroot debugging messages.
-                       See Documentation/filesystems/nfs/nfsroot.txt.
+                       See Documentation/admin-guide/nfs/nfsroot.rst.
 
        nfs.callback_nr_threads=
                        [NFSv4] set the total number of threads that the
                        This can be set from sysctl after boot.
                        See Documentation/admin-guide/sysctl/vm.rst for details.
 
-       of_devlink      [OF, KNL] Create device links between consumer and
-                       supplier devices by scanning the devictree to infer the
-                       consumer/supplier relationships.  A consumer device
-                       will not be probed until all the supplier devices have
-                       probed successfully.
-
        ohci1394_dma=early      [HW] enable debugging via the ohci1394 driver.
                        See Documentation/debugging-via-ohci1394.txt for more
                        info.
                        Format: <integer>
 
                        A nonzero value instructs the soft-lockup detector
-                       to panic the machine when a soft-lockup occurs. This
-                       is also controlled by CONFIG_BOOTPARAM_SOFTLOCKUP_PANIC
-                       which is the respective build-time switch to that
-                       functionality.
+                       to panic the machine when a soft-lockup occurs. It is
+                       also controlled by the kernel.softlockup_panic sysctl
+                       and CONFIG_BOOTPARAM_SOFTLOCKUP_PANIC, which is the
+                       respective build-time switch to that functionality.
 
        softlockup_all_cpu_backtrace=
                        [KNL] Should the soft-lockup detector generate