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doc, xen: Mention 'earlyprintk=xen' in the documentation.
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The earlyprintk for Xen PV guests utilizes a simple hypercall
(console_io) to provide output to Xen emergency console.

Note that the Xen hypervisor should be booted with 'loglevel=all'
to output said information.

Reported-by: H. Peter Anvin <hpa@zytor.com>
Signed-off-by: Konrad Rzeszutek Wilk <konrad.wilk@oracle.com>
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1361825650-14031-2-git-send-email-konrad.wilk@oracle.com
Cc: <stable@vger.kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: H. Peter Anvin <hpa@linux.intel.com>
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Konrad Rzeszutek Wilk authored and H. Peter Anvin committed Feb 25, 2013
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earlyprintk= [X86,SH,BLACKFIN]
earlyprintk=vga
earlyprintk=xen
earlyprintk=serial[,ttySn[,baudrate]]
earlyprintk=ttySn[,baudrate]
earlyprintk=dbgp[debugController#]
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The VGA output is eventually overwritten by the real
console.

The xen output can only be used by Xen PV guests.

ekgdboc= [X86,KGDB] Allow early kernel console debugging
ekgdboc=kbd

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