Linux Kernel in a Nutshell

Name

Synopsis

pci=option[,option...]

Each option can be one of the following:

off

Do not probe for the PCI bus.

bios

Force the use of the PCI BIOS by not accessing the hardware directly. This means that the kernel should trust the BIOS, which is not the standard thing to do (as BIOSes are known to lie more than they are known to be valid.) Use this only if your machine has a non-standard PCI host bridge and the normal boot method is not working properly.

nobios

Do not use the PCI BIOS, but access the hardware directly instead. This is the default method of probing for PCI devices in all kernels after 2.6.13.

conf1

Force use of PCI Configuration Mechanism 1 (a way to access PCI memory on i386 machines.)

conf2

Force use of PCI Configuration Mechanism 2 (a way to access PCI memory on i386 machines.)

nommconf

Disable use of the ACPI MMCONFIG table for PCI configuration.

nomsi

If the PCI_MSI kernel config parameter is enabled, this kernel boot option can be used to disable the use of MSI interrupts system-wide.

nosort

Do not sort PCI devices according to order given by the PCI BIOS. This sorting is done to get a device order compatible with much older kernel versions.

biosirq

Use PCI BIOS calls to get the interrupt routing table. These calls are known to be buggy on several machines and hang these machine when used, but on other machines they are the only way to get the interrupt routing table. Try this option if the kernel is unable to allocate IRQs or discover secondary PCI buses on your motherboard. ...