Commit a1ad4f15 authored by Stephen Kitt's avatar Stephen Kitt Committed by Jonathan Corbet
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docs: document stop-a in sysctl/kernel.rst



This describes the SPARC-specific stop-a sysctl entry, which was
previously listed in kernel.rst but not documented.

Base on the implementation in arch/sparc/kernel/setup_{32,64}.c and
kernel/panic.c.

Signed-off-by: default avatarStephen Kitt <steve@sk2.org>
Signed-off-by: default avatarJonathan Corbet <corbet@lwn.net>
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stop-a (SPARC only)
===================

Controls Stop-A:

= ====================================
0 Stop-A has no effect.
1 Stop-A breaks to the PROM (default).
= ====================================

Stop-A is always enabled on a panic, so that the user can return to
the boot PROM.


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