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Diffstat (limited to 'Documentation')
| -rw-r--r-- | Documentation/ABI/testing/sysfs-firmware-initrd | 8 | ||||
| -rw-r--r-- | Documentation/admin-guide/kernel-parameters.txt | 5 |
2 files changed, 11 insertions, 2 deletions
diff --git a/Documentation/ABI/testing/sysfs-firmware-initrd b/Documentation/ABI/testing/sysfs-firmware-initrd new file mode 100644 index 000000000000..20bf7cf77a19 --- /dev/null +++ b/Documentation/ABI/testing/sysfs-firmware-initrd @@ -0,0 +1,8 @@ +What: /sys/firmware/initrd +Date: December 2023 +Contact: Alexander Graf <graf@amazon.com> +Description: + When the kernel was booted with an initrd and the + "retain_initrd" option is set on the kernel command + line, /sys/firmware/initrd contains the contents of the + initrd that the kernel was booted with. diff --git a/Documentation/admin-guide/kernel-parameters.txt b/Documentation/admin-guide/kernel-parameters.txt index a36cf8cc582c..4ef41092bb66 100644 --- a/Documentation/admin-guide/kernel-parameters.txt +++ b/Documentation/admin-guide/kernel-parameters.txt @@ -2449,7 +2449,7 @@ between unregistering the boot console and initializing the real console. - keepinitrd [HW,ARM] + keepinitrd [HW,ARM] See retain_initrd. kernelcore= [KNL,X86,IA-64,PPC] Format: nn[KMGTPE] | nn% | "mirror" @@ -5604,7 +5604,8 @@ Useful for devices that are detected asynchronously (e.g. USB and MMC devices). - retain_initrd [RAM] Keep initrd memory after extraction + retain_initrd [RAM] Keep initrd memory after extraction. After boot, it will + be accessible via /sys/firmware/initrd. retbleed= [X86] Control mitigation of RETBleed (Arbitrary Speculative Code Execution with Return Instructions) |