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Sat, 13 Sep 2025 20:54:43 -0700 (PDT) From: Askar Safin To: linux-fsdevel@vger.kernel.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Cc: Linus Torvalds , Greg Kroah-Hartman , Christian Brauner , Al Viro , Jan Kara , Christoph Hellwig , Jens Axboe , Andy Shevchenko , Aleksa Sarai , =?UTF-8?q?Thomas=20Wei=C3=9Fschuh?= , Julian Stecklina , Gao Xiang , Art Nikpal , Andrew Morton , Eric Curtin , Alexander Graf , Rob Landley , Lennart Poettering , linux-arch@vger.kernel.org, linux-alpha@vger.kernel.org, linux-snps-arc@lists.infradead.org, linux-arm-kernel@lists.infradead.org, linux-csky@vger.kernel.org, linux-hexagon@vger.kernel.org, loongarch@lists.linux.dev, linux-m68k@lists.linux-m68k.org, linux-mips@vger.kernel.org, linux-openrisc@vger.kernel.org, linux-parisc@vger.kernel.org, linuxppc-dev@lists.ozlabs.org, linux-riscv@lists.infradead.org, linux-s390@vger.kernel.org, linux-sh@vger.kernel.org, sparclinux@vger.kernel.org, linux-um@lists.infradead.org, x86@kernel.org, Ingo Molnar , linux-block@vger.kernel.org, initramfs@vger.kernel.org, linux-api@vger.kernel.org, linux-doc@vger.kernel.org, linux-efi@vger.kernel.org, linux-ext4@vger.kernel.org, "Theodore Y . Ts'o" , linux-acpi@vger.kernel.org, Michal Simek , devicetree@vger.kernel.org, Luis Chamberlain , Kees Cook , Thorsten Blum , Heiko Carstens , patches@lists.linux.dev Subject: [PATCH RESEND 45/62] doc: kernel-parameters: replace [RAM] with [INITRAMFS] Date: Sun, 14 Sep 2025 06:54:38 +0300 Message-ID: <20250914035438.3682240-1-safinaskar@gmail.com> X-Mailer: git-send-email 2.47.2 In-Reply-To: <20250913003842.41944-1-safinaskar@gmail.com> References: <20250913003842.41944-1-safinaskar@gmail.com> Precedence: bulk X-Mailing-List: patches@lists.linux.dev List-Id: List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit Also, do other initramfs-related edits, while we are here Signed-off-by: Askar Safin --- .../admin-guide/kernel-parameters.rst | 4 ++-- .../admin-guide/kernel-parameters.txt | 20 +++++++++---------- 2 files changed, 12 insertions(+), 12 deletions(-) diff --git a/Documentation/admin-guide/kernel-parameters.rst b/Documentation/admin-guide/kernel-parameters.rst index 39d0e7ff0965..22af6bbffc35 100644 --- a/Documentation/admin-guide/kernel-parameters.rst +++ b/Documentation/admin-guide/kernel-parameters.rst @@ -123,7 +123,7 @@ is applicable:: CMA Contiguous Memory Area support is enabled. DRM Direct Rendering Management support is enabled. DYNAMIC_DEBUG Build in debug messages and enable them at runtime - EARLY Parameter processed too early to be embedded in initrd. + EARLY Parameter processed too early to be embedded in initramfs. EDD BIOS Enhanced Disk Drive Services (EDD) is enabled EFI EFI Partitioning (GPT) is enabled EVM Extended Verification Module @@ -134,6 +134,7 @@ is applicable:: HW Appropriate hardware is enabled. HYPER_V HYPERV support is enabled. IMA Integrity measurement architecture is enabled. + INITRAMFS Initramfs support is enabled. IP_PNP IP DHCP, BOOTP, or RARP is enabled. IPV6 IPv6 support is enabled. ISAPNP ISA PnP code is enabled. @@ -167,7 +168,6 @@ is applicable:: PPT Parallel port support is enabled. PS2 Appropriate PS/2 support is enabled. PV_OPS A paravirtualized kernel is enabled. - RAM RAM disk support is enabled. RDT Intel Resource Director Technology. RISCV RISCV architecture is enabled. S390 S390 architecture is enabled. diff --git a/Documentation/admin-guide/kernel-parameters.txt b/Documentation/admin-guide/kernel-parameters.txt index 0805d3ebc75a..8e10abac4cc7 100644 --- a/Documentation/admin-guide/kernel-parameters.txt +++ b/Documentation/admin-guide/kernel-parameters.txt @@ -565,7 +565,7 @@ Format: integer bootconfig [KNL,EARLY] - Extended command line options can be added to an initrd + Extended command line options can be added to an initramfs and this will cause the kernel to look for it. See Documentation/admin-guide/bootconfig.rst @@ -1005,7 +1005,7 @@ may be missing from the dump. A standard crashkernel reservation, as described above, - is still needed to hold the crash kernel and initrd. + is still needed to hold the crash kernel and initramfs. This option increases the risk of a kdump failure: DMA transfers configured by the first kernel may end up @@ -2298,7 +2298,7 @@ initcall functions. Useful for debugging built-in modules and initcalls. - initramfs_async= [KNL] + initramfs_async= [INITRAMFS,KNL] Format: Default: 1 This parameter controls whether the initramfs @@ -2310,10 +2310,10 @@ unpacking being completed before device_ and late_ initcalls. - initrd= [BOOT,EARLY] Specify the location of the initial ramdisk + initrd= [BOOT,EARLY,INITRAMFS,KNL] Same as initrdmem= - initrdmem= [KNL,EARLY] Specify a physical address and size from which to - load the initrd. If an initrd is compiled in or + initrdmem= [BOOT,EARLY,INITRAMFS,KNL] Specify a physical address and size from which to + load initramfs. If initramfs is compiled in or specified in the bootparams, it takes priority over this setting. Format: ss[KMG],nn[KMG] @@ -2749,7 +2749,7 @@ between unregistering the boot console and initializing the real console. - keepinitrd [HW,ARM] See retain_initrd. + keepinitrd [HW,ARM,INITRAMFS] See retain_initrd. kernelcore= [KNL,X86,PPC,EARLY] Format: nn[KMGTPE] | nn% | "mirror" @@ -6129,8 +6129,8 @@ rdinit= [KNL] Format: - Run specified binary instead of /init from the ramdisk, - used for early userspace startup. See initrd. + Run specified binary instead of /init from initramfs, + used for early userspace startup. rdrand= [X86,EARLY] force - Override the decision by the kernel to hide the @@ -6324,7 +6324,7 @@ Useful for devices that are detected asynchronously (e.g. USB and MMC devices). - retain_initrd [RAM] Keep initrd memory after extraction. After boot, it will + retain_initrd [INITRAMFS] Keep initramfs memory after extraction. After boot, it will be accessible via /sys/firmware/initrd. retbleed= [X86] Control mitigation of RETBleed (Arbitrary -- 2.47.2