linux-kernel - [PATCH 16/88] doc, kernel-parameters: Document 'console=hvc<n>'

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Message-Id: <1363257381-15900-17-git-send-email-luis.henriques@canonical.com>
Date:	Thu, 14 Mar 2013 10:35:09 +0000
From:	Luis Henriques <luis.henriques@...onical.com>
To:	linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org, stable@...r.kernel.org,
	kernel-team@...ts.ubuntu.com
Cc:	Greg KH <gregkh@...uxfoundation.org>,
	Konrad Rzeszutek Wilk <konrad.wilk@...cle.com>,
	"H. Peter Anvin" <hpa@...ux.intel.com>,
	Luis Henriques <luis.henriques@...onical.com>
Subject: [PATCH 16/88] doc, kernel-parameters: Document 'console=hvc<n>'

3.5.7.8 -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.

Cc: Greg KH <gregkh@...uxfoundation.org>
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: Luis Henriques <luis.henriques@...onical.com>
---
 Documentation/kernel-parameters.txt | 2 ++
 1 file changed, 2 insertions(+)

diff --git a/Documentation/kernel-parameters.txt b/Documentation/kernel-parameters.txt
index 65f25d7..912785c 100644
--- a/Documentation/kernel-parameters.txt
+++ b/Documentation/kernel-parameters.txt
@@ -570,6 +570,8 @@ 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
-- 
1.8.1.2

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