[PATCH] doc: more serial-console info

Add info on flow control for serial consoles.  Refer to netconsole option
also.

Signed-off-by: Randy Dunlap <rdunlap@xenotime.net>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
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Randy Dunlap
2006-03-25 03:08:17 -08:00
committed by Linus Torvalds
parent 174e27c607
commit f1a1c2dc2a
2 changed files with 17 additions and 7 deletions

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@@ -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".
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 also Documentation/serial-console.txt.
See Documentation/serial-console.txt for more
information. See
Documentation/networking/netconsole.txt for an
alternative.
uart,io,<addr>[,options]
uart,mmio,<addr>[,options]