Fedora PPC console=? to get serial console
Daniel P. Berrange
berrange at redhat.com
Fri Jun 12 09:59:34 UTC 2009
On Thu, Jun 11, 2009 at 01:34:25PM -0400, Josh Boyer wrote:
> On Thu, Jun 11, 2009 at 10:38 AM, Richard W.M. Jones<rjones at redhat.com> wrote:
> >
> > (Posting here because the fedora-ppc list is a bit overrun with spam
> > http://lists.infradead.org/pipermail/fedora-ppc/ )
> >
> > Does anyone know what 'console=...' parameter I should give the Fedora
> > PPC kernel to get it to use a serial console?
> >
> > Debian uses the non-standard form console=ttyPZ0
>
> That is for the special G5 serial cards I believe.
>
> > I've also seen console=hvc0 mentioned. Obviously I also tried
> > console=ttyS0.
>
> hvc0 is for machines like POWER4/5/6 and possibly a couple others.
hvc0 is a virtual console device. As well as some PPC machines, its used
for Xen paravirt console, and KVM's virtio console device, and possibly
s390 too IIRC
Daniel
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