From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S932127Ab3BYWP2 (ORCPT ); Mon, 25 Feb 2013 17:15:28 -0500 Received: from terminus.zytor.com ([198.137.202.10]:34098 "EHLO terminus.zytor.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1755387Ab3BYWPZ (ORCPT ); Mon, 25 Feb 2013 17:15:25 -0500 Date: Mon, 25 Feb 2013 14:14:09 -0800 From: tip-bot for Konrad Rzeszutek Wilk Message-ID: 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 Reply-To: mingo@kernel.org, hpa@zytor.com, gregkh@linuxfoundation.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, konrad.wilk@oracle.com, tglx@linutronix.de, stable@vger.kernel.org, hpa@linux.intel.com In-Reply-To: <1361825650-14031-3-git-send-email-konrad.wilk@oracle.com> References: <1361825650-14031-3-git-send-email-konrad.wilk@oracle.com> To: linux-tip-commits@vger.kernel.org Subject: [tip:x86/urgent] doc, kernel-parameters: Document 'console=hvc ' Git-Commit-ID: a2fd6419174470f5ae6383f5037d0ee21ed9833f X-Mailer: tip-git-log-daemon Robot-ID: Robot-Unsubscribe: Contact to get blacklisted from these emails MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 Content-Disposition: inline X-Greylist: Sender IP whitelisted, not delayed by milter-greylist-4.2.7 (terminus.zytor.com [127.0.0.1]); Mon, 25 Feb 2013 14:14:15 -0800 (PST) Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Commit-ID: a2fd6419174470f5ae6383f5037d0ee21ed9833f Gitweb: http://git.kernel.org/tip/a2fd6419174470f5ae6383f5037d0ee21ed9833f Author: Konrad Rzeszutek Wilk AuthorDate: Mon, 25 Feb 2013 15:54:09 -0500 Committer: H. Peter Anvin CommitDate: Mon, 25 Feb 2013 13:42:15 -0800 doc, kernel-parameters: Document 'console=hvc' 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 Cc: Signed-off-by: H. Peter Anvin --- 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 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