This series of patches is part of an effort to add VCC (Virtual Channel Concentrator) and VDS (Virtual Disk Server) support to Linux. VCC & VDS enable the virtualization of serial console and storage respectively, on SPARC processors. VCC provides access to the guest domain's serial console. VDS provides the ability to allocate storage to the guest domain. Both VCC & VDS depend on some core functionalities in the linux kernel for SPARC. The functionalities include LDC (Logical Domain Channels), MDESC (Machine Descriptor) and VIO (Virtual IO protocol). In order for VCC & VDS to be enabled, it requires that these core functionalities support them. This version 3 of the series addresses the following changes suggested by Dave Miller Patch 1/5: Removes ldc_enable_hv_intr & ldc_disable_hv_intr APIs Jag Raman (5): sparc64: expand LDC interface sparc64: enhance ldc_abort to print message sparc64: ensure LDC channel is ready before communication sparc64: ldc abort during vds iso boot sparc64: print debug messages when reading from LDC channel arch/sparc/include/asm/ldc.h | 6 ++ arch/sparc/kernel/ldc.c | 145 +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++------------ 2 files changed, 108 insertions(+), 43 deletions(-) -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe sparclinux" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
