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Subject: [ 25/77] doc, kernel-parameters: Document console=hvc<n>
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3.8-stable review patch.  If anyone has any objections, please let me know.

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From: Konrad Rzeszutek Wilk <konrad.wilk@oracle.com>

commit a2fd6419174470f5ae6383f5037d0ee21ed9833f upstream.

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

Signed-off-by: Konrad Rzeszutek Wilk <konrad.wilk@oracle.com>
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1361825650-14031-3-git-send-email-konrad.wilk@oracle.com
Signed-off-by: H. Peter Anvin <hpa@linux.intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>

---
 Documentation/kernel-parameters.txt |    2 ++
 1 file changed, 2 insertions(+)

--- a/Documentation/kernel-parameters.txt
+++ b/Documentation/kernel-parameters.txt
@@ -564,6 +564,8 @@ bytes respectively. Such letter suffixes
 			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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