[RFC]HVCS driver for Linux 2.6 on Power-5

[Ryan Arnold]

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


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