[PATCH] document udbg-immortal
Christian Kujau
lists at nerdbynature.de
Wed Jun 1 11:22:05 EST 2011
Back in 2006 the "udbg-immortal" kernel option has been introduced:
> commit 3b5e905ee3bd23e9311951890aba57a0dbc81ca4
> Author: Benjamin Herrenschmidt <benh at au1.ibm.com>
> Date: Wed Jun 7 12:06:20 2006 +1000
>
> [PATCH] powerpc: Add udbg-immortal kernel option
...but I could not find it documented anywhere in the sources.
This patch adds it to Documentation/kernel-parameters.txt.
Signed-off-by: Christian Kujau <lists at nerdbynature.de>
diff --git a/Documentation/kernel-parameters.txt b/Documentation/kernel-parameters.txt
index cc85a92..5d0df23 100644
--- a/Documentation/kernel-parameters.txt
+++ b/Documentation/kernel-parameters.txt
@@ -2520,6 +2520,11 @@ bytes respectively. Such letter suffixes can also be entirely omitted.
<port#>,<js1>,<js2>,<js3>,<js4>,<js5>,<js6>,<js7>
See also Documentation/input/joystick-parport.txt
+ udbg-immortal [PPC] When debugging early kernel crashes that
+ happen after console_init() and before a proper
+ console driver takes over, this boot options might
+ help "seeing" what's going on.
+
uhash_entries= [KNL,NET]
Set number of hash buckets for UDP/UDP-Lite connections
Thanks,
Christian.
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