PCI/x86: document pci=earlydump argument
authorBjorn Helgaas <bjorn.helgaas@hp.com>
Wed, 14 Jan 2009 17:04:36 +0000 (10:04 -0700)
committerJesse Barnes <jbarnes@hobbes.lan>
Fri, 20 Mar 2009 02:29:19 +0000 (19:29 -0700)
Document the "pci=earlydump" argument.  This currently only works on x86.

Signed-off-by: Bjorn Helgaas <bjorn.helgaas@hp.com>
Signed-off-by: Jesse Barnes <jbarnes@virtuousgeek.org>
Documentation/kernel-parameters.txt

index 54f21a5..c7c441e 100644 (file)
@@ -1659,6 +1659,8 @@ and is between 256 and 4096 characters. It is defined in the file
                        See also Documentation/blockdev/paride.txt.
 
        pci=option[,option...]  [PCI] various PCI subsystem options:
+               earlydump       [X86] dump PCI config space before the kernel
+                               changes anything
                off             [X86] don't probe for the PCI bus
                bios            [X86-32] force use of PCI BIOS, don't access
                                the hardware directly. Use this if your machine