| From | Luis Henriques <> | Subject | [PATCH 16/88] doc, kernel-parameters: Document 'console=hvc<n>' | Date | Thu, 14 Mar 2013 10:35:09 +0000 |
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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@oracle.com>
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: Luis Henriques <luis.henriques@canonical.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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