This is a note to let you know that I've just added the patch titled
doc, kernel-parameters: Document 'console=hvc<n>'
to the 3.8-stable tree which can be found at:
http://www.kernel.org/git/?p=linux/kernel/git/stable/stable-queue.git;a=summary
The filename of the patch is:
doc-kernel-parameters-document-console-hvc-n.patch
and it can be found in the queue-3.8 subdirectory.
If you, or anyone else, feels it should not be added to the stable tree,
please let <stable@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> know about it.
>From a2fd6419174470f5ae6383f5037d0ee21ed9833f Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Konrad Rzeszutek Wilk <konrad.wilk@xxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Mon, 25 Feb 2013 15:54:09 -0500
Subject: doc, kernel-parameters: Document 'console=hvc<n>'
From: Konrad Rzeszutek Wilk <konrad.wilk@xxxxxxxxxx>
commit a2fd6419174470f5ae6383f5037d0ee21ed9833f upstream.
Both the PowerPC hypervisor and Xen hypervisor can utilize the
hvc driver.
Signed-off-by: Konrad Rzeszutek Wilk <konrad.wilk@xxxxxxxxxx>
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1361825650-14031-3-git-send-email-konrad.wilk@xxxxxxxxxx
Signed-off-by: H. Peter Anvin <hpa@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
---
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
Patches currently in stable-queue which might be from konrad.wilk@xxxxxxxxxx are
queue-3.8/doc-kernel-parameters-document-console-hvc-n.patch
queue-3.8/doc-xen-mention-earlyprintk-xen-in-the-documentation.patch
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