From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S932135Ab3BYUyb (ORCPT ); Mon, 25 Feb 2013 15:54:31 -0500 Received: from aserp1040.oracle.com ([141.146.126.69]:48153 "EHLO aserp1040.oracle.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1758829Ab3BYUyU (ORCPT ); Mon, 25 Feb 2013 15:54:20 -0500 From: Konrad Rzeszutek Wilk To: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, hpa@zytor.com, gregkh@linuxfoundation.org, x86@kernel.org Cc: Konrad Rzeszutek Wilk Subject: [PATCH 2/3] kernel-parameters: Document 'console=hvc' Date: Mon, 25 Feb 2013 15:54:09 -0500 Message-Id: <1361825650-14031-3-git-send-email-konrad.wilk@oracle.com> X-Mailer: git-send-email 1.8.0.2 In-Reply-To: <1361825650-14031-1-git-send-email-konrad.wilk@oracle.com> References: <1361825650-14031-1-git-send-email-konrad.wilk@oracle.com> X-Source-IP: acsinet21.oracle.com [141.146.126.237] Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Both the PowerPC hypervisor and Xen hypervisor can utilize the hvc driver. CC: gregkh@linuxfoundation.org Signed-off-by: Konrad Rzeszutek Wilk --- Documentation/kernel-parameters.txt | 2 ++ 1 file changed, 2 insertions(+) diff --git a/Documentation/kernel-parameters.txt b/Documentation/kernel-parameters.txt index 73d51ed..7b41fba 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 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 -- 1.8.0.2