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.

---
 arch/powerpc/include/asm/hvcall.h  |   20 
 drivers/net/ethernet/ibm/Kconfig   |   10 
 drivers/net/ethernet/ibm/Makefile  |    1 
 drivers/net/ethernet/ibm/ibmvnic.c | 3642 +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++
 drivers/net/ethernet/ibm/ibmvnic.h |  962 +++++++++
 5 files changed, 4635 insertions(+)

@@ -39,4 +39,14 @@ config EHEA
 	  To compile the driver as a module, choose M here. The module
 	  will be called ehea.
 
+config IBMVNIC
+	tristate "IBM Virtual NIC support"
+	depends on PPC_PSERIES
+	---help---
+	  This driver supports Virtual NIC adapters on IBM i and IBM System p 
+	  systems.
+
+	  To compile this driver as a module, choose M here. The module will
+	  be called ibmvnic.
+
 endif # NET_VENDOR_IBM

@@ -3,5 +3,6 @@
 #
 
 obj-$(CONFIG_IBMVETH) += ibmveth.o
+obj-$(CONFIG_IBMVNIC) += ibmvnic.o
 obj-$(CONFIG_IBM_EMAC) += emac/
 obj-$(CONFIG_EHEA) += ehea/

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From: Santiago Leon <[email protected]>
Date: Mon, 25 Aug 2014 08:52:40 -0500

Just a heads up, if nobody reviews this driver submission I am not applying it.

Thanks.