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| author | Pawel Moll <pawel.moll@arm.com> | 2012-05-09 21:30:16 +0400 |
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| committer | Rusty Russell <rusty@rustcorp.com.au> | 2012-05-22 06:46:15 +0400 |
| commit | 81a054ce0b469b66c88e9da6403082759c64bf73 (patch) | |
| tree | 4736df1e0d7c7d9143a1e6dbbfe8947d8079f934 /Documentation | |
| parent | f65ca1dc6a8c81c6bd72297d4399ec5f4c1f3a01 (diff) | |
| download | linux-81a054ce0b469b66c88e9da6403082759c64bf73.tar.xz | |
virtio-mmio: Devices parameter parsing
This patch adds an option to instantiate guest virtio-mmio devices
basing on a kernel command line (or module) parameter, for example:
virtio_mmio.devices=0x100@0x100b0000:48
Signed-off-by: Pawel Moll <pawel.moll@arm.com>
Signed-off-by: Rusty Russell <rusty@rustcorp.com.au>
Diffstat (limited to 'Documentation')
| -rw-r--r-- | Documentation/kernel-parameters.txt | 17 |
1 files changed, 17 insertions, 0 deletions
diff --git a/Documentation/kernel-parameters.txt b/Documentation/kernel-parameters.txt index c1601e5a8b71..8b350512f360 100644 --- a/Documentation/kernel-parameters.txt +++ b/Documentation/kernel-parameters.txt @@ -110,6 +110,7 @@ parameter is applicable: USB USB support is enabled. USBHID USB Human Interface Device support is enabled. V4L Video For Linux support is enabled. + VMMIO Driver for memory mapped virtio devices is enabled. VGA The VGA console has been enabled. VT Virtual terminal support is enabled. WDT Watchdog support is enabled. @@ -2847,6 +2848,22 @@ bytes respectively. Such letter suffixes can also be entirely omitted. video= [FB] Frame buffer configuration See Documentation/fb/modedb.txt. + virtio_mmio.device= + [VMMIO] Memory mapped virtio (platform) device. + + <size>@<baseaddr>:<irq>[:<id>] + where: + <size> := size (can use standard suffixes + like K, M and G) + <baseaddr> := physical base address + <irq> := interrupt number (as passed to + request_irq()) + <id> := (optional) platform device id + example: + virtio_mmio.device=1K@0x100b0000:48:7 + + Can be used multiple times for multiple devices. + vga= [BOOT,X86-32] Select a particular video mode See Documentation/x86/boot.txt and Documentation/svga.txt. |