Commit a2fd6419 authored by Konrad Rzeszutek Wilk's avatar Konrad Rzeszutek Wilk Committed by H. Peter Anvin

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
......@@ -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
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