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| author | Konrad Rzeszutek Wilk <konrad.wilk@oracle.com> | 2013-02-25 21:54:09 +0100 |
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| committer | H. Peter Anvin <hpa@linux.intel.com> | 2013-02-25 22:42:15 +0100 |
| commit | a2fd6419174470f5ae6383f5037d0ee21ed9833f (patch) | |
| tree | 88abbce3df9327f3b5f9e6c04d43b6ea3f0a9f17 /Documentation | |
| parent | doc, xen: Mention 'earlyprintk=xen' in the documentation. (diff) | |
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doc, kernel-parameters: Document 'console=hvc<n>'
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
Cc: <stable@vger.kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: H. Peter Anvin <hpa@linux.intel.com>
Diffstat (limited to 'Documentation')
| -rw-r--r-- | Documentation/kernel-parameters.txt | 2 |
1 files changed, 2 insertions, 0 deletions
diff --git a/Documentation/kernel-parameters.txt b/Documentation/kernel-parameters.txt index c4cc199e32cb..986614df8c05 100644 --- a/Documentation/kernel-parameters.txt +++ b/Documentation/kernel-parameters.txt @@ -564,6 +564,8 @@ 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 |