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authorKonrad Rzeszutek Wilk <konrad.wilk@oracle.com>2013-02-25 15:54:09 -0500
committerBen Hutchings <ben@decadent.org.uk>2013-03-06 03:24:14 +0000
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tree6032030e754354a9c1d30b4e9428df940fd2cfbf /Documentation
parent560701883d7a0679e9186f145a2e43a77b447cff (diff)
doc, kernel-parameters: Document 'console=hvc<n>'
commit a2fd6419174470f5ae6383f5037d0ee21ed9833f upstream. Both the PowerPC hypervisor and Xen hypervisor can utilize the hvc driver. Cc: Greg KH <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org> Signed-off-by: Konrad Rzeszutek Wilk <konrad.wilk@oracle.com> Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1361825650-14031-3-git-send-email-konrad.wilk@oracle.com Signed-off-by: H. Peter Anvin <hpa@linux.intel.com> Signed-off-by: Ben Hutchings <ben@decadent.org.uk>
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@@ -552,6 +552,8 @@ bytes respectively. Such letter suffixes can also be entirely omitted.
UART at the specified I/O port or MMIO address,
switching to the matching ttyS device later. The
options are the same as for ttyS, above.
+ hvc<n> Use the hypervisor console device <n>. This is for
+ both Xen and PowerPC hypervisors.
If the device connected to the port is not a TTY but a braille
device, prepend "brl," before the device type, for instance