Re: [PATCH] Document x86-64 iommu kernel parameters

From: Chuck Ebbert
Date: Wed Oct 03 2007 - 13:00:22 EST


On 10/03/2007 12:10 AM, H. Peter Anvin wrote:
> Randy Dunlap wrote:
>>
>> Maybe we can/should merge the doc files along with the x86 arch merge.
>>
>
> Well, the x86 merge is pretty much mechanical. It should be followed up
> with a lot of manual merging.
>

It would be really nice if identical kernel parameters used the same names,
so people didn't waste their time trying e.g. "nolapic_timer" on x86_64
because that option fixed their problems on i386 (it's "noapictimer" in
x86_64.)
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