Document powerpc udbg-immortal
Back in 2006 the "udbg-immortal" kernel option has been introduced:
> commit 3b5e905ee3bd23e9311951890aba57a0dbc81ca4
> Author: Benjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@au1.ibm.com>
> Date: Wed Jun 7 12:06:20 2006 +1000
>
> [PATCH] powerpc: Add udbg-immortal kernel option
...but I could not find it documented anywhere in the sources.
This patch adds it to Documentation/kernel-parameters.txt.
Signed-off-by: Christian Kujau <lists@nerdbynature.de>
Signed-off-by: Benjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@kernel.crashing.org>
diff --git a/Documentation/kernel-parameters.txt b/Documentation/kernel-parameters.txt
index fd248a31..960c321 100644
--- a/Documentation/kernel-parameters.txt
+++ b/Documentation/kernel-parameters.txt
@@ -2524,6 +2524,11 @@
<port#>,<js1>,<js2>,<js3>,<js4>,<js5>,<js6>,<js7>
See also Documentation/input/joystick-parport.txt
+ udbg-immortal [PPC] When debugging early kernel crashes that
+ happen after console_init() and before a proper
+ console driver takes over, this boot options might
+ help "seeing" what's going on.
+
uhash_entries= [KNL,NET]
Set number of hash buckets for UDP/UDP-Lite connections