From: Fenghua Yu <[email protected]> The kernel parameter dis_ucode_ldr disables early loading microcode from initrd. The parameter was introduced earlier by Borislave Petkov.
This patch adds the explanation for this parameter in Documentation/kernel-parameters.txt for user convenience. Signed-off-by: Fenghua Yu <[email protected]> --- Documentation/kernel-parameters.txt | 7 +++++++ 1 file changed, 7 insertions(+) diff --git a/Documentation/kernel-parameters.txt b/Documentation/kernel-parameters.txt index 5ae8608..eef098f 100644 --- a/Documentation/kernel-parameters.txt +++ b/Documentation/kernel-parameters.txt @@ -841,6 +841,13 @@ bytes respectively. Such letter suffixes can also be entirely omitted. dhash_entries= [KNL] Set number of hash buckets for dentry cache. + dis_ucode_ldr [X86] + This parameter disables the early microcode loader. + This is useful mostly in debugging situations where + we want to turn off early microcode loading from the + initrd, as a means to be able to rule out its + influence on the machine. + disable= [IPV6] See Documentation/networking/ipv6.txt. -- 1.8.1.2 -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to [email protected] More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/
