[PATCH 2/3] kernel-parameters: Document 'console=hvc<n>'

From: Konrad Rzeszutek Wilk
Date: Mon Feb 25 2013 - 15:54:35 EST


Both the PowerPC hypervisor and Xen hypervisor can utilize the
hvc driver.

CC: gregkh@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
Signed-off-by: Konrad Rzeszutek Wilk <konrad.wilk@xxxxxxxxxx>
---
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<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
device, prepend "brl," before the device type, for instance
--
1.8.0.2

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