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authorJean Delvare <jdelvare@suse.de>2020-02-06 16:58:45 +0100
committerGreg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>2020-03-20 10:54:23 +0100
commit140421867f98b8d944562a01cff0a04298dc3ad2 (patch)
treefc8dcf7e0fc62bc6b76c48addd69654286e645db /Documentation
parentba362da15ee2c915041b9d7582ff8ca017c615f6 (diff)
ACPI: watchdog: Allow disabling WDAT at boot
[ Upstream commit 3f9e12e0df012c4a9a7fd7eb0d3ae69b459d6b2c ] In case the WDAT interface is broken, give the user an option to ignore it to let a native driver bind to the watchdog device instead. Signed-off-by: Jean Delvare <jdelvare@suse.de> Acked-by: Mika Westerberg <mika.westerberg@linux.intel.com> Signed-off-by: Rafael J. Wysocki <rafael.j.wysocki@intel.com> Signed-off-by: Sasha Levin <sashal@kernel.org>
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diff --git a/Documentation/admin-guide/kernel-parameters.txt b/Documentation/admin-guide/kernel-parameters.txt
index 7e0a4be3503d..ae51b1b7b67f 100644
--- a/Documentation/admin-guide/kernel-parameters.txt
+++ b/Documentation/admin-guide/kernel-parameters.txt
@@ -137,6 +137,10 @@
dynamic table installation which will install SSDT
tables to /sys/firmware/acpi/tables/dynamic.
+ acpi_no_watchdog [HW,ACPI,WDT]
+ Ignore the ACPI-based watchdog interface (WDAT) and let
+ a native driver control the watchdog device instead.
+
acpi_rsdp= [ACPI,EFI,KEXEC]
Pass the RSDP address to the kernel, mostly used
on machines running EFI runtime service to boot the