doc, kernel-parameters: Document 'console=hvc<n>'
authorKonrad Rzeszutek Wilk <konrad.wilk@oracle.com>
Mon, 25 Feb 2013 20:54:09 +0000 (15:54 -0500)
committerH. Peter Anvin <hpa@linux.intel.com>
Mon, 25 Feb 2013 21:42:15 +0000 (13:42 -0800)
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
Cc: <stable@vger.kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: H. Peter Anvin <hpa@linux.intel.com>
Documentation/kernel-parameters.txt

index c4cc199..986614d 100644 (file)
@@ -564,6 +564,8 @@ 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