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Commit dcd83aaf authored by Timur Tabi's avatar Timur Tabi Committed by Greg Kroah-Hartman
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tty/powerpc: introduce the ePAPR embedded hypervisor byte channel driver



The ePAPR embedded hypervisor specification provides an API for "byte
channels", which are serial-like virtual devices for sending and receiving
streams of bytes.  This driver provides Linux kernel support for byte
channels via three distinct interfaces:

1) An early-console (udbg) driver.  This provides early console output
through a byte channel.  The byte channel handle must be specified in a
Kconfig option.

2) A normal console driver.  Output is sent to the byte channel designated
for stdout in the device tree.  The console driver is for handling kernel
printk calls.

3) A tty driver, which is used to handle user-space input and output.  The
byte channel used for the console is designated as the default tty.

Signed-off-by: default avatarTimur Tabi <timur@freescale.com>
Signed-off-by: default avatarGreg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>
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