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| author | Randy Dunlap <rdunlap@xenotime.net> | 2006-03-25 03:08:17 -0800 |
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| committer | Linus Torvalds <torvalds@g5.osdl.org> | 2006-03-25 08:23:00 -0800 |
| commit | f1a1c2dc2a956c375b432d2a9a28e52ba9d81c7c (patch) | |
| tree | 39923914f3c5208c0948476ceff8f10617525f4e /Documentation/serial-console.txt | |
| parent | 174e27c607cfa3ebb92934d28c0fdfcf5ce6c3af (diff) | |
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[PATCH] doc: more serial-console info
Add info on flow control for serial consoles. Refer to netconsole option
also.
Signed-off-by: Randy Dunlap <rdunlap@xenotime.net>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
Diffstat (limited to 'Documentation/serial-console.txt')
| -rw-r--r-- | Documentation/serial-console.txt | 11 |
1 files changed, 8 insertions, 3 deletions
diff --git a/Documentation/serial-console.txt b/Documentation/serial-console.txt index 6c689b0df2b8..9a7bc8b3f479 100644 --- a/Documentation/serial-console.txt +++ b/Documentation/serial-console.txt @@ -17,11 +17,13 @@ The format of this option is: ttyX for any other virtual console ttySx for a serial port lp0 for the first parallel port + ttyUSB0 for the first USB serial device options: depend on the driver. For the serial port this - defines the baudrate/parity/bits of the port, - in the format BBBBPN, where BBBB is the speed, - P is parity (n/o/e), and N is bits. Default is + defines the baudrate/parity/bits/flow control of + the port, in the format BBBBPNF, where BBBB is the + speed, P is parity (n/o/e), N is number of bits, + and F is flow control ('r' for RTS). Default is 9600n8. The maximum baudrate is 115200. You can specify multiple console= options on the kernel command line. @@ -45,6 +47,9 @@ become the console. You will need to create a new device to use /dev/console. The official /dev/console is now character device 5,1. +(You can also use a network device as a console. See +Documentation/networking/netconsole.txt for information on that.) + Here's an example that will use /dev/ttyS1 (COM2) as the console. Replace the sample values as needed. |