From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1757249Ab3CNLDd (ORCPT ); Thu, 14 Mar 2013 07:03:33 -0400 Received: from youngberry.canonical.com ([91.189.89.112]:51760 "EHLO youngberry.canonical.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1756894Ab3CNKhD (ORCPT ); Thu, 14 Mar 2013 06:37:03 -0400 From: Luis Henriques To: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, stable@vger.kernel.org, kernel-team@lists.ubuntu.com Cc: Greg KH , Konrad Rzeszutek Wilk , "H. Peter Anvin" , Luis Henriques Subject: [PATCH 16/88] doc, kernel-parameters: Document 'console=hvc' Date: Thu, 14 Mar 2013 10:35:09 +0000 Message-Id: <1363257381-15900-17-git-send-email-luis.henriques@canonical.com> X-Mailer: git-send-email 1.8.1.2 In-Reply-To: <1363257381-15900-1-git-send-email-luis.henriques@canonical.com> References: <1363257381-15900-1-git-send-email-luis.henriques@canonical.com> X-Extended-Stable: 3.5 Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org 3.5.7.8 -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. Cc: Greg KH 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: Luis Henriques --- 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 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 -- 1.8.1.2