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Commit 0eca353e authored by Bryant G. Ly's avatar Bryant G. Ly Committed by Greg Kroah-Hartman
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misc: IBM Virtual Management Channel Driver (VMC)



This driver is a logical device which provides an
interface between the hypervisor and a management
partition. This interface is like a message
passing interface. This management partition
is intended to provide an alternative to HMC-based
system management.

VMC enables the Management LPAR to provide basic
logical partition functions:
- Logical Partition Configuration
- Boot, start, and stop actions for individual
  partitions
- Display of partition status
- Management of virtual Ethernet
- Management of virtual Storage
- Basic system management

This driver is to be used for the POWER Virtual
Management Channel Virtual Adapter on the PowerPC
platform. It provides a character device which
allows for both request/response and async message
support through the /dev/ibmvmc node.

Signed-off-by: default avatarBryant G. Ly <bryantly@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Reviewed-by: default avatarSteven Royer <seroyer@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Reviewed-by: default avatarAdam Reznechek <adreznec@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Reviewed-by: default avatarRandy Dunlap <rdunlap@infradead.org>
Tested-by: default avatarTaylor Jakobson <tjakobs@us.ibm.com>
Tested-by: default avatarBrad Warrum <bwarrum@us.ibm.com>
Cc: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
Cc: Arnd Bergmann <arnd@arndb.de>
Cc: Benjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@kernel.crashing.org>
Cc: Michael Ellerman <mpe@ellerman.id.au>
Signed-off-by: default avatarGreg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
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