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authorBryant G. Ly <bryantly@linux.vnet.ibm.com>2018-04-26 00:32:57 +0300
committerGreg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>2018-05-14 17:35:42 +0300
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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: 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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diff --git a/drivers/misc/Kconfig b/drivers/misc/Kconfig
index 5d713008749b..3726eacdf65d 100644
--- a/drivers/misc/Kconfig
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@@ -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