This series of patches is part of an effort to add VCC (Virtual Console Concentrator) support to Linux. VCC enables the virtualization of serial console on SPARC processors. VCC provides access to the guest domain's serial console. VCC depends 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 to be enabled, it requires that these core functionalities support them. This series of patches adds MDESC & VIO support to enable VCC on Linux. It is the second batch of changes to enable VCC. Jag Raman (12): sparc64: ensure VIO operations are defined while being used sparc64: specify the device class in VIO version info. packet sparc64: skip handshake for LDC channels in RAW mode sparc64: expand MDESC interface sparc64: mdesc: use __GFP_REPEAT action modifier for VM allocation sparc64: add MDESC node name property to VIO device metadata sparc64: refactor code to obtain cfg_handle property from MDESC sparc64: remove restriction on VIO device name size sparc64: check if a client is allowed to register for MDESC notifications sparc64: enhance VIO device probing sparc64: Enhance search for VIO device in MDESC sparc64: add port_id to VIO device metadata arch/sparc/include/asm/mdesc.h | 24 +++- arch/sparc/include/asm/vio.h | 13 ++- arch/sparc/kernel/ldc.c | 10 ++ arch/sparc/kernel/mdesc.c | 283 +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++------- arch/sparc/kernel/vio.c | 245 +++++++++++++++++++---------------- arch/sparc/kernel/viohs.c | 24 +++- 6 files changed, 431 insertions(+), 168 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