Commit 3d6ac984 authored by Randy Dunlap's avatar Randy Dunlap Committed by Linus Torvalds

document clocksources

Document the available clocksources per platform and move clocksource= into
the correct (alpha) location in the file.
Signed-off-by: default avatarRandy Dunlap <randy.dunlap@oracle.com>
Acked-by: default avatarThomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Signed-off-by: default avatarAndrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: default avatarLinus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
parent 53a2731f
......@@ -396,6 +396,26 @@ and is between 256 and 4096 characters. It is defined in the file
clocksource is not available, it defaults to PIT.
Format: { pit | tsc | cyclone | pmtmr }
clocksource= [GENERIC_TIME] Override the default clocksource
Format: <string>
Override the default clocksource and use the clocksource
with the name specified.
Some clocksource names to choose from, depending on
the platform:
[all] jiffies (this is the base, fallback clocksource)
[ACPI] acpi_pm
[ARM] imx_timer1,OSTS,netx_timer,mpu_timer2,
pxa_timer,timer3,32k_counter,timer0_1
[AVR32] avr32
[IA-32] pit,hpet,tsc,vmi-timer;
scx200_hrt on Geode; cyclone on IBM x440
[MIPS] MIPS
[PARISC] cr16
[S390] tod
[SH] SuperH
[SPARC64] tick
[X86-64] hpet,tsc
code_bytes [IA32] How many bytes of object code to print in an
oops report.
Range: 0 - 8192
......@@ -1807,10 +1827,6 @@ and is between 256 and 4096 characters. It is defined in the file
time Show timing data prefixed to each printk message line
clocksource= [GENERIC_TIME] Override the default clocksource
Override the default clocksource and use the clocksource
with the name specified.
tipar.timeout= [HW,PPT]
Set communications timeout in tenths of a second
(default 15).
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