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Commit a2fd6419 authored by Konrad Rzeszutek Wilk's avatar Konrad Rzeszutek Wilk Committed by H. Peter Anvin
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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: default avatarKonrad 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: default avatarH. Peter Anvin <hpa@linux.intel.com>
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...@@ -564,6 +564,8 @@ bytes respectively. Such letter suffixes can also be entirely omitted. ...@@ -564,6 +564,8 @@ bytes respectively. Such letter suffixes can also be entirely omitted.
UART at the specified I/O port or MMIO address, UART at the specified I/O port or MMIO address,
switching to the matching ttyS device later. The switching to the matching ttyS device later. The
options are the same as for ttyS, above. 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 If the device connected to the port is not a TTY but a braille
device, prepend "brl," before the device type, for instance device, prepend "brl," before the device type, for instance
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