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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>
parent 2482a92e

Documentation/kernel-parameters.txt

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			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