HVCS driver for Linux 2.6 on Power-5

Greetings,

The following patch, built against linux-2.6.7, includes the driver source code, the arch source code (which interacts with firmware and provides an arch abstracted interface to the driver), and installation documentation for this driver.

http://www-124.ibm.com/linux/patches/misc/hvcs_to_mainline.diff

This driver implements a virtual console server which provides a tty interface for interacting with the virtual consoles of logically partitioned operating systems on Power-5 hardware from within another linux partition. This is required because a physical console adapter for each partition on a large multi-partition system is impractical.

We would like this patch considered for inclusion into the mainline 2.6 tree.

I'm interested in any comments and critiques.

Thanks,
Ryan S. Arnold