From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S265732AbUGIXwF (ORCPT ); Fri, 9 Jul 2004 19:52:05 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S265782AbUGIXwE (ORCPT ); Fri, 9 Jul 2004 19:52:04 -0400 Received: from e5.ny.us.ibm.com ([32.97.182.105]:24565 "EHLO e5.ny.us.ibm.com") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S265732AbUGIXvw (ORCPT ); Fri, 9 Jul 2004 19:51:52 -0400 Subject: [RFC]HVCS driver for Linux 2.6 on Power-5 From: Ryan Arnold To: Kernel Mailing List Cc: Benjamin Herrenschmidt , Hollis Blanchard , Paul Mackerras , David Boutcher Content-Type: text/plain Organization: IBM Message-Id: <1089417112.3385.13.camel@localhost> Mime-Version: 1.0 X-Mailer: Ximian Evolution 1.4.6 Date: Fri, 09 Jul 2004 18:51:52 -0500 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org 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