From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: From: Greg Kroah-Hartman To: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Cc: Greg Kroah-Hartman , stable@vger.kernel.org, Konrad Rzeszutek Wilk , "H. Peter Anvin" Subject: [ 25/77] doc, kernel-parameters: Document console=hvc Date: Fri, 1 Mar 2013 11:44:10 -0800 Message-Id: <20130301194354.659550091@linuxfoundation.org> In-Reply-To: <20130301194351.913471337@linuxfoundation.org> References: <20130301194351.913471337@linuxfoundation.org> Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: 3.8-stable review patch. If anyone has any objections, please let me know. ------------------ From: Konrad Rzeszutek Wilk commit a2fd6419174470f5ae6383f5037d0ee21ed9833f upstream. Both the PowerPC hypervisor and Xen hypervisor can utilize the hvc driver. Signed-off-by: Konrad Rzeszutek Wilk Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1361825650-14031-3-git-send-email-konrad.wilk@oracle.com Signed-off-by: H. Peter Anvin Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman --- 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 Use the hypervisor console device . 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