Hi Alen,
Thank you for your comment.
> 1. This driver probably belongs somewhere in drivers/net rather
> than platform-x86
I was devided between drivers/net and platform-x86...
> 2. It would be helpful to undertand what the use case is. You describe it
> as
I know. Unfortunately currently there's no good HP to illustrate
Extended Socket.
>
> "This patchsets add support for FUJITSU Extended Socket network
> device. Extended Socket network device is a shared memory
> based high-speed network interface between Extended Partitions of
> PRIMEQUEST 2000 E2 series."
>
> So would this interface be used to interconnect multiple instances of
> Linxu (or other operating systems) physically partitioned running on the
> PrimeQuest server ?
This interface is used to interconnect multiple instances of Linux
(currently only Linux) LOGICALLY (called Extended Partiton) partitioned
running PRIMEQUEST.
> Am I looking at the right information about the system here
>
> http://www.researchgate.net/publication/228905336_Partitioning_Technologies_and_Dynamic_Reconfiguration_of_Mission-C
> ritical_IA_Server_PRIMEQUEST/links/000477b10cf2ed98fb432c1b.pdf
That document is for PRIMEQUEST 400/500 series, so it's a bit old though basic conception is not so far.
The following manual is useful to understand Extend Partiton and
Extended Socket.
http://globalsp.ts.fujitsu.com/dmsp/Publications/public/CA92344-0537.pdf
3.2.1 Extended Partitioning
3.2.2 Extended Socket
Sincerely,
Taku Izumi
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