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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)
commit032c5e82847a2214c3196a90f0aeba0ce252de58
tree1768d978ce92acba649fa367b80855fe59427f8e
parent7b752fd3d03ff860aabb5ec89beca8880d942d0f
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]