Hi All, Enclosed you will find for your consideration a set of new device drivers for iSeries boxes. This submission is against 2.4.4. Additionally in the background there is also a submission which has been made to the ppc maintainers for the set of changes to arch/ppc and include/asm-ppc to enable iSeries boxes to run Linux. Those should bubble up soon. The new device drivers are for: virtual console virtual harddrive virtual ethernet virtual tape virtual cd These device drivers will also be used in the up coming ppc64 architecture. Rather than spamming the list with ~6800 lines of driver code, you can obtain it via http://www.ibm.com/linux/ltc/projects/ppc/patches/patch-lpar-dev.gz or via ftp.kernel.org/pub/linux/kernel/people/tgall/patch-lpar-dev.gz Background: iSeries boxes are otherwise known as IBM's AS/400, a midrange business computer. Linux runs on these machines in a logical partition, so akin to how the S390 runs Linux, iSeries allows you to have multiple Linux boxes running side by side on the same machine. Since multiple linux boxes must share physical resources, these virtual drivers were developed. The virtual ethernet goes a step beyond and allows you to setup your own high speed lan "inside" of the box without consuming physical resources. Also see http://www.ibm.com/linux/ltc/projects/ppc/iSeries_notes.php or http://www.ibm.com/servers/eserver/iseries/linux/ for more information. Regards, Tom -- Tom Gall - PPC64 "Where's the ka-boom? There was Linux Technology Center supposed to be an earth (w) [EMAIL PROTECTED] shattering ka-boom!" (w) 507-253-4558 -- Marvin Martian (h) [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.ibm.com/linux/ltc/projects/ppc - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/
