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authorLiu Wei <liuwei09@cestc.cn>2024-06-25 11:05:04 +0800
committerCatalin Marinas <catalin.marinas@arm.com>2024-07-04 16:33:13 +0100
commitf5a4af3c752704272e9094466e66e21d4ee4e414 (patch)
treecdb1063521df7e587b89d315902147d863c9f5a6 /Documentation
parentbfe3f0df3e3c0afdbe147d2479fe9aee4d0683e9 (diff)
ACPI: Add acpi=nospcr to disable ACPI SPCR as default console on ARM64
For varying privacy and security reasons, sometimes we would like to completely silence the _serial_ console, and only enable it when needed. But there are many existing systems that depend on this _serial_ console, so add acpi=nospcr to disable console in ACPI SPCR table as default _serial_ console. Signed-off-by: Liu Wei <liuwei09@cestc.cn> Suggested-by: Prarit Bhargava <prarit@redhat.com> Suggested-by: Will Deacon <will@kernel.org> Suggested-by: Andrew Lunn <andrew@lunn.ch> Reviewed-by: Hanjun Guo <guohanjun@huawei.com> Reviewed-by: Prarit Bhargava <prarit@redhat.com> Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20240625030504.58025-1-liuwei09@cestc.cn Signed-off-by: Catalin Marinas <catalin.marinas@arm.com>
Diffstat (limited to 'Documentation')
-rw-r--r--Documentation/admin-guide/kernel-parameters.txt10
1 files changed, 7 insertions, 3 deletions
diff --git a/Documentation/admin-guide/kernel-parameters.txt b/Documentation/admin-guide/kernel-parameters.txt
index b600df82669d..68d8acc38c82 100644
--- a/Documentation/admin-guide/kernel-parameters.txt
+++ b/Documentation/admin-guide/kernel-parameters.txt
@@ -12,7 +12,7 @@
acpi= [HW,ACPI,X86,ARM64,RISCV64,EARLY]
Advanced Configuration and Power Interface
Format: { force | on | off | strict | noirq | rsdt |
- copy_dsdt }
+ copy_dsdt | nospcr }
force -- enable ACPI if default was off
on -- enable ACPI but allow fallback to DT [arm64,riscv64]
off -- disable ACPI if default was on
@@ -21,8 +21,12 @@
strictly ACPI specification compliant.
rsdt -- prefer RSDT over (default) XSDT
copy_dsdt -- copy DSDT to memory
- For ARM64 and RISCV64, ONLY "acpi=off", "acpi=on" or
- "acpi=force" are available
+ nospcr -- disable console in ACPI SPCR table as
+ default _serial_ console on ARM64
+ For ARM64, ONLY "acpi=off", "acpi=on", "acpi=force" or
+ "acpi=nospcr" are available
+ For RISCV64, ONLY "acpi=off", "acpi=on" or "acpi=force"
+ are available
See also Documentation/power/runtime_pm.rst, pci=noacpi