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The setting of scan code set sequence is removed, as it's buggy and could lead the controller to fail immediately when doing self-test afterwards. We will restore it when we understand how to do so safely. Allow the user to determine a preferred detection path with a new kernel command line argument. The defualt option is to check i8042 presence with an ACPI check and if necessary - an "aggressive" test to determine i8042 existence in the system. Also, keep the i8042 controller pointer on the stack, so don't assign m_i8042_controller member pointer if it does not exist.
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## Name
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Boot Parameters - optional parameters accepted by the kernel
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## Description
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Serenity's kernel can process parameters at boot time.
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This functionality is used to control or augment the state of features during the initial
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startup of the system.
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### Options
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The kernel boot parameters take the form of **`{option_name}={value}`**, where the **`={value}`**
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trailer can be omitted for specific parameters.
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List of options:
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* **`acpi`** - This parameter expects one of the following values. **`on`** - Boot with full ACPI support, using ACPI
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Machine Language interpretation (default). **`limited`** - Boot with limited ACPI support. **`off`** - Don't initialize ACPI at all.
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* **`ahci_reset_mode`** - This parameter expects one of the following values. **`controllers`** - Reset just the AHCI controller on boot (default).
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**`aggressive`** - Reset the AHCI controller, and all AHCI ports on boot.
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* **`boot_prof`** - If present on the command line, global system profiling will be enabled
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as soon as possible during the boot sequence. Allowing you to profile startup of all applications.
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* **`disable_ide`** - If present on the command line, the IDE controller will not be initialized
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during the boot sequence. Leaving only the AHCI and Ram Disk controllers.
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* **`disable_physical_storage`** - If present on the command line, neither AHCI, or IDE controllers will be initialized on boot.
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* **`disable_uhci_controller`** - If present on the command line, the UHCI controller will not be initialized on boot.
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* **`disable_virtio`** - If present on the command line, virtio devices will not be detected, and initialized on boot.
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* **`early_boot_console`** - This parameter expects **`on`** or **`off`** and is by default set to **`on`**.
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When set to **`off`**, the kernel will not initialize any early console to show kernel dmesg output.
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When set to **`on`**, the kernel will try to initialize either a text mode console (if VGA text mode was detected)
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or framebuffer console, based on what the Multiboot bootloader specified on the physical address, width, height
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and bit color depth.
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* **`enable_ioapic`** - This parameter expects **`on`** or **`off`** and is by default set to **`on`**.
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When set to **`off`**, the kernel will initialize the two i8259 PICs.
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When set to **`on`**, the kernel will try to initialize the IOAPIC (or IOAPICs if there's more than one),
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but only if **`acpi`** is set to **`limited`** or **`on`**, and a `MADT` (APIC) table is available.
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Otherwise, the kernel will fallback to use the i8259 PICs.
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* **`graphics_subsystem_mode`** - This parameter expects one of the following values. **`on`**- Boot into the graphical environment if possible (default). **`off`** - Boot into text mode, don't initialize any driver. **`limited`** - Boot into the pre-defined framebuffer that the bootloader
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has set up before booting the Kernel, don't initialize any driver.
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* **`force_pio`** - If present on the command line, the IDE controllers will be force into PIO mode when initialized IDE Channels on boot.
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* **`hpet`** - This parameter expects one of the following values. **`periodic`** - The High Precision Event Timer should
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be configured in a periodic mode. **`nonperiodic`** - The High Precision Event Timer should eb configure din non-periodic mode.
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* **`init`** - This parameter expects the fully qualified path to the init program the Kernel should launch after boot.
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This defaults to [`SystemServer`(7)](help://man/7/SystemServer).
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* **`init_args`** - This parameter expects a set of arguments to pass to the **`init`** program.
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The value should be a set of strings separated by `,` characters.
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* **`i8042_presence_mode`** - This parameter expects one of the following values:
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**`aggressive-test`** - The i8042 initialization sequence should only try an aggressive presence test.
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**`auto`** - The i8042 initialization sequence should try to check if ACPI says i8042 exists, and if not an aggressive presence test should take place to determine presence.
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**`none`** - Assume there's no i8042 controller in the system.
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**`force`** - Assume there's i8042 controller in the system.
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* **`panic`** - This parameter expects **`halt`** or **`shutdown`**. This is particularly useful in CI contexts.
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* **`pci`** - This parameter expects **`ecam`**, **`io`** or **`none`**. When selecting **`none`**
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the kernel will not use PCI resources/devices.
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* **`root`** - This parameter configures the device to use as the root file system. It defaults to **`/dev/hda`** if unspecified.
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* **`pcspeaker`** - This parameter controls whether the kernel can use the PC speaker or not. It defaults to **`off`** and can be set to **`on`** to enable the PC speaker.
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* **`smp`** - This parameter expects a binary value of **`on`** or **`off`**. If enabled kernel will
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enable available APs (application processors) and use them with the BSP (Bootstrap processor) to
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schedule and run threads.
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This parameter defaults to **`off`**. This parameter requires **`enable_ioapic`** to be enabled
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and a `MADT` (APIC) table to be available.
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* **`nvme_poll`** - This parameter configures the NVMe drive to use polling instead of interrupt driven completion.
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* **`system_mode`** - This parameter is not interpreted by the Kernel, and is made available at `/sys/kernel/system_mode`. SystemServer uses it to select the set of services that should be started. Common values are:
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- **`graphical`** (default) - Boots the system in the normal graphical mode.
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- **`self-test`** - Boots the system in self-test, validation mode.
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- **`text`** - Boots the system in text only mode. (You may need to also set **`graphics_subsystem_mode=off`**.)
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* **`time`** - This parameter expects one of the following values. **`modern`** - This configures the system to attempt
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to use High Precision Event Timer (HPET) on boot. **`legacy`** - Configures the system to use the legacy programmable interrupt
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time for managing system team.
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* **`vmmouse`** - This parameter expects a binary value of **`on`** or **`off`**. If enabled and
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running on a VMWare Hypervisor, the kernel will enable absolute mouse mode.
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* **`disable_kaslr`** - If present on the command line, the KASLR security mitigation will be disabled.
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## See also
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* [`SystemServer`(7)](help://man/7/SystemServer).
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