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Driver for IBM System i/p VNIC protocol
authorThomas Falcon <tlfalcon@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Mon, 21 Dec 2015 17:26:06 +0000 (11:26 -0600)
committerDavid S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
Mon, 28 Dec 2015 05:12:13 +0000 (00:12 -0500)
commit70ece86a541c6d3dc5d80f048c78b3f957f2760d
tree1768d978ce92acba649fa367b80855fe59427f8e
parentccdb7e9d3c9cf8698b08e715e05f3b7f41838f3d
Driver for IBM System i/p VNIC protocol

This is a new device driver for a high performance SR-IOV assisted virtual
network for IBM System p and IBM System i systems.  The SR-IOV VF will be
attached to the VIOS partition and mapped to the Linux client via the
hypervisor's VNIC protocol that this driver implements.

This driver is able to perform basic tx and rx, new features
and improvements will be added as they are being developed and tested.

Signed-off-by: Thomas Falcon <tlfalcon@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: John Allen <jallen@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
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arch/powerpc/include/asm/hvcall.h
drivers/net/ethernet/ibm/Kconfig
drivers/net/ethernet/ibm/Makefile
drivers/net/ethernet/ibm/ibmvnic.c [new file with mode: 0644]
drivers/net/ethernet/ibm/ibmvnic.h [new file with mode: 0644]