From: tip-bot for Konrad Rzeszutek Wilk <tipbot@zytor.com>
To: linux-tip-commits@vger.kernel.org
Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, gregkh@linuxfoundation.org,
hpa@zytor.com, mingo@kernel.org, konrad.wilk@oracle.com,
stable@vger.kernel.org, tglx@linutronix.de, hpa@linux.intel.com
Subject: [tip:x86/urgent] doc, kernel-parameters: Document 'console=hvc<n> '
Date: Mon, 25 Feb 2013 14:14:09 -0800 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <tip-a2fd6419174470f5ae6383f5037d0ee21ed9833f@git.kernel.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1361825650-14031-3-git-send-email-konrad.wilk@oracle.com>
Commit-ID: a2fd6419174470f5ae6383f5037d0ee21ed9833f
Gitweb: http://git.kernel.org/tip/a2fd6419174470f5ae6383f5037d0ee21ed9833f
Author: Konrad Rzeszutek Wilk <konrad.wilk@oracle.com>
AuthorDate: Mon, 25 Feb 2013 15:54:09 -0500
Committer: H. Peter Anvin <hpa@linux.intel.com>
CommitDate: Mon, 25 Feb 2013 13:42:15 -0800
doc, kernel-parameters: Document 'console=hvc<n>'
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 | 2 ++
1 file changed, 2 insertions(+)
diff --git a/Documentation/kernel-parameters.txt b/Documentation/kernel-parameters.txt
index c4cc199..986614d 100644
--- a/Documentation/kernel-parameters.txt
+++ b/Documentation/kernel-parameters.txt
@@ -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
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2013-02-25 22:15 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 9+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2013-02-25 20:54 [PATCH] Documentation and source code comments updates (v1) Konrad Rzeszutek Wilk
2013-02-25 20:54 ` [PATCH 1/3] xen/documentation: Mention 'earlyprintk=xen' in the documentation Konrad Rzeszutek Wilk
2013-02-25 22:13 ` [tip:x86/urgent] doc, xen: " tip-bot for Konrad Rzeszutek Wilk
2013-02-25 20:54 ` [PATCH 2/3] kernel-parameters: Document 'console=hvc<n>' Konrad Rzeszutek Wilk
2013-02-25 22:14 ` tip-bot for Konrad Rzeszutek Wilk [this message]
2013-02-25 20:54 ` [PATCH 3/3] docs: Fix incorrect comment about 64-bit code segment descriptors Konrad Rzeszutek Wilk
2013-02-25 22:15 ` [tip:x86/urgent] x86, doc: " tip-bot for Konrad Rzeszutek Wilk
2013-02-26 5:08 ` [PATCH] Documentation and source code comments updates (v1) Rob Landley
2013-02-26 16:40 ` Konrad Rzeszutek Wilk
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