[ovs-dev] [PATCH] doc: document the nointegritychecks setting.

William Tu u9012063 at gmail.com
Mon Mar 2 18:06:44 UTC 2020


OVS kernel module requires to turn on the 'nointegritychecks'. It has following
limitations:
nointegritychecks [ on | off ] Disables integrity checks.
    Cannot be set when secure boot is enabled. This value is
    ignored by Windows 7 and Windows 8.
https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/windows-hardware/drivers/devtest/bcdedit--set

Signed-off-by: William Tu <u9012063 at gmail.com>
---
 Documentation/intro/install/windows.rst | 2 ++
 1 file changed, 2 insertions(+)

diff --git a/Documentation/intro/install/windows.rst b/Documentation/intro/install/windows.rst
index 394572f001e9..579e41b73d8e 100644
--- a/Documentation/intro/install/windows.rst
+++ b/Documentation/intro/install/windows.rst
@@ -287,6 +287,8 @@ Enforcement' during boot.  The following commands can be used:
 .. note::
 
   You may have to restart the machine for the settings to take effect.
+  The nointegritychecks cannot be set when secure boot is enabled and
+  the value is ignored by Windows 8.
 
 In the Virtual Switch Manager configuration you can enable the Open vSwitch
 Extension on an existing switch or create a new switch.  If you are using an
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2.7.4



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