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| author | Bryant G. Ly <bryantly@linux.vnet.ibm.com> | 2018-04-25 16:32:57 -0500 |
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| committer | Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org> | 2018-05-14 16:35:42 +0200 |
| commit | 0eca353e7ae75a56d5a10cd1c0ff1f06d89e60e3 (patch) | |
| tree | 4c0ba51f2c241c327ace8ae48f47431c639c42b2 /drivers/misc/Kconfig | |
| parent | 5b7d127726de6eed4b900bc3bbb167837690818f (diff) | |
| download | linux-0eca353e7ae75a56d5a10cd1c0ff1f06d89e60e3.tar.gz | |
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: 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>
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1 files changed, 14 insertions, 0 deletions
diff --git a/drivers/misc/Kconfig b/drivers/misc/Kconfig index 5d713008749b..3726eacdf65d 100644 --- a/drivers/misc/Kconfig +++ b/drivers/misc/Kconfig @@ -113,6 +113,20 @@ config IBM_ASM for information on the specific driver level and support statement for your IBM server. +config IBMVMC + tristate "IBM Virtual Management Channel support" + depends on PPC_PSERIES + help + This is the IBM POWER Virtual Management Channel + + This driver is to be used for the POWER Virtual + Management Channel virtual adapter on the PowerVM + platform. It provides both request/response and + async message support through the /dev/ibmvmc node. + + To compile this driver as a module, choose M here: the + module will be called ibmvmc. + config PHANTOM tristate "Sensable PHANToM (PCI)" depends on PCI |