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Message-Id: <20130301194354.659550091@linuxfoundation.org>
Date: Fri, 1 Mar 2013 11:44:10 -0800
From: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@...uxfoundation.org>
To: linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Cc: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@...uxfoundation.org>,
stable@...r.kernel.org,
Konrad Rzeszutek Wilk <konrad.wilk@...cle.com>,
"H. Peter Anvin" <hpa@...ux.intel.com>
Subject: [ 25/77] doc, kernel-parameters: Document console=hvc<n>
3.8-stable review patch. If anyone has any objections, please let me know.
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From: Konrad Rzeszutek Wilk <konrad.wilk@...cle.com>
commit a2fd6419174470f5ae6383f5037d0ee21ed9833f upstream.
Both the PowerPC hypervisor and Xen hypervisor can utilize the
hvc driver.
Signed-off-by: Konrad Rzeszutek Wilk <konrad.wilk@...cle.com>
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1361825650-14031-3-git-send-email-konrad.wilk@oracle.com
Signed-off-by: H. Peter Anvin <hpa@...ux.intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@...uxfoundation.org>
---
Documentation/kernel-parameters.txt | 2 ++
1 file changed, 2 insertions(+)
--- a/Documentation/kernel-parameters.txt
+++ b/Documentation/kernel-parameters.txt
@@ -564,6 +564,8 @@ bytes respectively. Such letter suffixes
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
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