From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1757295AbXJCCap (ORCPT ); Tue, 2 Oct 2007 22:30:45 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1755430AbXJCCai (ORCPT ); Tue, 2 Oct 2007 22:30:38 -0400 Received: from srv5.dvmed.net ([207.36.208.214]:34990 "EHLO mail.dvmed.net" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1755089AbXJCCai (ORCPT ); Tue, 2 Oct 2007 22:30:38 -0400 Message-ID: <4702FEC7.3000000@garzik.org> Date: Tue, 02 Oct 2007 22:30:31 -0400 From: Jeff Garzik User-Agent: Thunderbird 2.0.0.5 (X11/20070727) MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Randy Dunlap CC: ak@suse.de, LKML , Andrew Morton Subject: Re: [PATCH] Document x86-64 iommu kernel parameters References: <20071003013413.GA17717@havoc.gtf.org> <20071002192209.09b2fbda.randy.dunlap@oracle.com> In-Reply-To: <20071002192209.09b2fbda.randy.dunlap@oracle.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Spam-Score: -4.4 (----) X-Spam-Report: SpamAssassin version 3.1.9 on srv5.dvmed.net summary: Content analysis details: (-4.4 points, 5.0 required) Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Randy Dunlap wrote: > On Tue, 2 Oct 2007 21:34:13 -0400 Jeff Garzik wrote: > >> Signed-off-by: Jeff Garzik >> --- >> After having to go figure out what some of these means, I figured I >> would save others the trouble. >> >> Some of these are "best guess" based on a quick scan of the code, so it >> certainly needs a sanity review before going upstream. > > "iommu" is listed in Documentation/x86_64/boot-options.txt > along with more x86_64-specific boot options. > A few other arches do something similar... Ah! Well, seeing as how we already have a provision for arch-specific options in kernel-parameters.txt, and some less-obscure arch-specific options can be found there, I think an argument can be made for my patch :) Nonethless, if the maintainer disagrees, they can drop this patch I suppose. Jeff