Linux kernel stable tree (mirror) https://git.radix-linux.su/kernel/linux.git/atom?h=v4.18.2 2018-05-14T14:35:42+00:00 2018-05-14T14:35:42+00:00 Bryant G. Ly bryantly@linux.vnet.ibm.com 2018-04-25T21:32:57+00:00 urn:sha1:0eca353e7ae75a56d5a10cd1c0ff1f06d89e60e3 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: Bryant G. Ly <bryantly@linux.vnet.ibm.com> Reviewed-by: Steven Royer <seroyer@linux.vnet.ibm.com> Reviewed-by: Adam Reznechek <adreznec@linux.vnet.ibm.com> Reviewed-by: Randy Dunlap <rdunlap@infradead.org> Tested-by: Taylor Jakobson <tjakobs@us.ibm.com> Tested-by: Brad 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: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>