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authorJan Beulich <jbeulich@suse.com>2012-09-11 15:49:52 +0200
committerJan Beulich <jbeulich@suse.com>2012-09-11 15:49:52 +0200
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console: add EHCI debug port based serial console
Low level hardware interface pieces adapted from Linux. For setup information, see Linux'es Documentation/x86/earlyprintk.txt and/or http://www.coreboot.org/EHCI_Debug_Port. Signed-off-by: Jan Beulich <jbeulich@suse.com> Reviewed-by: Konrad Rzeszutek Wilk <konrad.wilk@oracle.com> Acked-by: Keir Fraser <keir@xen.org>
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@@ -244,7 +244,7 @@ A typical setup for most situations might be `com1=115200,8n1`
Specify the size of the console ring buffer.
### console
-> `= List of [ vga | com1[H,L] | com2[H,L] | none ]`
+> `= List of [ vga | com1[H,L] | com2[H,L] | dbgp | none ]`
> Default: `console=com1,vga`
@@ -260,6 +260,8 @@ the converse; transmitted and received characters will have their MSB
cleared. This allows a single port to be shared by two subsystems
(e.g. console and debugger).
+`dbgp` indicates that Xen should use a USB debug port.
+
`none` indicates that Xen should not use a console. This option only
makes sense on its own.
@@ -352,6 +354,12 @@ combination with the `low_crashinfo` command line option.
### credit2\_load\_window\_shift
> `= <integer>`
+### dbgp
+> `= ehci[ <integer> | @pci<bus>:<slot>.<func> ]`
+
+Specify the USB controller to use, either by instance number (when going
+over the PCI busses sequentially) or by PCI device (must be on segment 0).
+
### debug\_stack\_lines
> `= <integer>`