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-The parameters listed below are only valid if certain kernel build options were enabled and if respective hardware is present. This list should be kept in alphabetical order. The text in square brackets at the beginning of each description states the restrictions within which a parameter is applicable: +[[https://www.kernel.org/doc/html/latest/admin-guide/kernel-parameters.html|latest kernel parameters]]
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-ACPI    ACPI support is enabled. +
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-AGP AGP (Accelerated Graphics Port) is enabled. +
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-ALSA    ALSA sound support is enabled. +
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-APIC    APIC support is enabled. +
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-APM Advanced Power Management support is enabled. +
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-APPARMOR AppArmor support is enabled. +
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-ARM ARM architecture is enabled. +
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-ARM64   ARM64 architecture is enabled. +
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-AX25    Appropriate AX.25 support is enabled. +
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-CLK Common clock infrastructure is enabled. +
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-CMA Contiguous Memory Area support is enabled. +
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-DRM Direct Rendering Management support is enabled. +
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-DYNAMIC_DEBUG Build in debug messages and enable them at runtime +
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-EARLY   Parameter processed too early to be embedded in initrd. +
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-EDD BIOS Enhanced Disk Drive Services (EDD) is enabled +
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-EFI EFI Partitioning (GPT) is enabled +
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-EVM Extended Verification Module +
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-FB  The frame buffer device is enabled. +
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-FTRACE  Function tracing enabled. +
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-GCOV    GCOV profiling is enabled. +
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-HIBERNATION HIBERNATION is enabled. +
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-HW  Appropriate hardware is enabled. +
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-HYPER_V HYPERV support is enabled. +
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-IA-64   IA-64 architecture is enabled. +
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-IMA     Integrity measurement architecture is enabled. +
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-IP_PNP  IP DHCP, BOOTP, or RARP is enabled. +
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-IPV6    IPv6 support is enabled. +
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-ISAPNP  ISA PnP code is enabled. +
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-ISDN    Appropriate ISDN support is enabled. +
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-ISOL    CPU Isolation is enabled. +
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-JOY Appropriate joystick support is enabled. +
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-KGDB    Kernel debugger support is enabled. +
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-KVM Kernel Virtual Machine support is enabled. +
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-LIBATA  Libata driver is enabled +
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-LOONGARCH LoongArch architecture is enabled. +
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-LOOP    Loopback device support is enabled. +
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-LP  Printer support is enabled. +
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-M68k    M68k architecture is enabled. +
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-These options have more detailed description inside of +
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-Documentation/arch/m68k/kernel-options.rst. +
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-MDA MDA console support is enabled. +
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-MIPS    MIPS architecture is enabled. +
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-MOUSE   Appropriate mouse support is enabled. +
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-MSI Message Signaled Interrupts (PCI). +
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-MTD MTD (Memory Technology Device) support is enabled. +
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-NET Appropriate network support is enabled. +
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-NFS Appropriate NFS support is enabled. +
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-NUMA    NUMA support is enabled. +
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-OF  Devicetree is enabled. +
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-PARISC  The PA-RISC architecture is enabled. +
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-PCI PCI bus support is enabled. +
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-PCIE    PCI Express support is enabled. +
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-PCMCIA  The PCMCIA subsystem is enabled. +
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-PNP Plug & Play support is enabled. +
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-PPC PowerPC architecture is enabled. +
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-PPT Parallel port support is enabled. +
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-PS2 Appropriate PS/2 support is enabled. +
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-PV_OPS  A paravirtualized kernel is enabled. +
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-RAM RAM disk support is enabled. +
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-RDT Intel Resource Director Technology. +
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-RISCV   RISCV architecture is enabled. +
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-S390    S390 architecture is enabled. +
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-SCSI    Appropriate SCSI support is enabled. +
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-A lot of drivers have their options described inside +
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-the Documentation/scsisub-directory. +
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-SECURITY Different security models are enabled. +
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-SELINUX SELinux support is enabled. +
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-SERIAL  Serial support is enabled. +
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-SH  SuperH architecture is enabled. +
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-SMP The kernel is an SMP kernel. +
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-SPARC   Sparc architecture is enabled. +
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-SUSPEND System suspend states are enabled. +
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-SWSUSP  Software suspend (hibernation) is enabled. +
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-TPM TPM drivers are enabled. +
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-UMS USB Mass Storage support is enabled. +
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-USB USB support is enabled. +
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-USBHID  USB Human Interface Device support is enabled. +
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-V4L Video For Linux support is enabled. +
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-VGA The VGA console has been enabled. +
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-VMMIO   Driver for memory mapped virtio devices is enabled. +
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-VT  Virtual terminal support is enabled. +
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-WDT Watchdog support is enabled. +
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-X86-32  X86-32, aka i386 architecture is enabled. +
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-X86-64  X86-64 architecture is enabled. +
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-More X86-64 boot options can be found in +
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-Documentation/arch/x86/x86_64/boot-options.rst. +
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-X86 Either 32-bit or 64-bit x86 (same as X86-32+X86-64) +
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-X86_UV  SGI UV support is enabled. +
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-XEN Xen support is enabled +
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-XTENSA  xtensa architecture is enabled. +
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