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 3.4-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-3.4 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 @@ -557,6 +557,8 @@ 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-3.4/doc-kernel-parameters-document-console-hvc-n.patch queue-3.4/doc-xen-mention-earlyprintk-xen-in-the-documentation.patch -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe stable" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html