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author | Konrad Rzeszutek Wilk <konrad.wilk@oracle.com> | 2013-02-25 15:54:09 -0500 |
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committer | H. Peter Anvin <hpa@linux.intel.com> | 2013-02-25 16:42:15 -0500 |
commit | a2fd6419174470f5ae6383f5037d0ee21ed9833f (patch) | |
tree | 88abbce3df9327f3b5f9e6c04d43b6ea3f0a9f17 /Documentation/kernel-parameters.txt | |
parent | 2482a92e7d17187301d7313cfe5021b13393a0b4 (diff) |
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>
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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. | |||
564 | UART at the specified I/O port or MMIO address, | 564 | UART at the specified I/O port or MMIO address, |
565 | switching to the matching ttyS device later. The | 565 | switching to the matching ttyS device later. The |
566 | options are the same as for ttyS, above. | 566 | options are the same as for ttyS, above. |
567 | hvc<n> Use the hypervisor console device <n>. This is for | ||
568 | both Xen and PowerPC hypervisors. | ||
567 | 569 | ||
568 | If the device connected to the port is not a TTY but a braille | 570 | If the device connected to the port is not a TTY but a braille |
569 | device, prepend "brl," before the device type, for instance | 571 | device, prepend "brl," before the device type, for instance |