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| author | Konrad Rzeszutek Wilk <konrad.wilk@oracle.com> | 2013-02-25 15:54:09 -0500 |
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| committer | Ben Hutchings <ben@decadent.org.uk> | 2013-03-06 03:24:14 +0000 |
| commit | 7479d5dd8b13e8b75e7233d094bca7b1935b9914 (patch) | |
| tree | 6032030e754354a9c1d30b4e9428df940fd2cfbf /Documentation | |
| parent | 560701883d7a0679e9186f145a2e43a77b447cff (diff) | |
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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>
Diffstat (limited to 'Documentation')
| -rw-r--r-- | Documentation/kernel-parameters.txt | 2 |
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diff --git a/Documentation/kernel-parameters.txt b/Documentation/kernel-parameters.txt index 4a4cff80ecf0..ddbf18eaaea4 100644 --- a/Documentation/kernel-parameters.txt +++ b/Documentation/kernel-parameters.txt @@ -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 |