Commit f1a1c2dc authored by Randy Dunlap's avatar Randy Dunlap Committed by Linus Torvalds

[PATCH] doc: more serial-console info

Add info on flow control for serial consoles.  Refer to netconsole option
also.
Signed-off-by: default avatarRandy Dunlap <rdunlap@xenotime.net>
Signed-off-by: default avatarAndrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: default avatarLinus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
parent 174e27c6
......@@ -367,12 +367,17 @@ running once the system is up.
tty<n> Use the virtual console device <n>.
ttyS<n>[,options]
ttyUSB0[,options]
Use the specified serial port. The options are of
the form "bbbbpn", where "bbbb" is the baud rate,
"p" is parity ("n", "o", or "e"), and "n" is bits.
Default is "9600n8".
See also Documentation/serial-console.txt.
the form "bbbbpnf", where "bbbb" is the baud rate,
"p" is parity ("n", "o", or "e"), "n" is number of
bits, and "f" is flow control ("r" for RTS or
omit it). Default is "9600n8".
See Documentation/serial-console.txt for more
information. See
Documentation/networking/netconsole.txt for an
alternative.
uart,io,<addr>[,options]
uart,mmio,<addr>[,options]
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......@@ -17,11 +17,13 @@ The format of this option is:
ttyX for any other virtual console
ttySx for a serial port
lp0 for the first parallel port
ttyUSB0 for the first USB serial device
options: depend on the driver. For the serial port this
defines the baudrate/parity/bits of the port,
in the format BBBBPN, where BBBB is the speed,
P is parity (n/o/e), and N is bits. Default is
defines the baudrate/parity/bits/flow control of
the port, in the format BBBBPNF, where BBBB is the
speed, P is parity (n/o/e), N is number of bits,
and F is flow control ('r' for RTS). Default is
9600n8. The maximum baudrate is 115200.
You can specify multiple console= options on the kernel command line.
......@@ -45,6 +47,9 @@ become the console.
You will need to create a new device to use /dev/console. The official
/dev/console is now character device 5,1.
(You can also use a network device as a console. See
Documentation/networking/netconsole.txt for information on that.)
Here's an example that will use /dev/ttyS1 (COM2) as the console.
Replace the sample values as needed.
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