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Revision 1.2.2.2, Wed Jan 25 21:18:17 2012 UTC (12 years, 2 months ago) by riz
Branch: netbsd-5
CVS Tags: netbsd-5-2-RELEASE, netbsd-5-2-RC1, netbsd-5-2-3-RELEASE, netbsd-5-2-2-RELEASE, netbsd-5-2-1-RELEASE, netbsd-5-2
Changes since 1.2.2.1: +58 -0 lines

Pull up following revision(s) (requested by hannken in ticket #1715):
- Be robust against an invalid timer period value.
sys/dev/ic/hpetreg.h			Rev. 1.4
sys/dev/ic/hpet.c			Rev. 1.8

- Fix wrong definition of LAPIC_LEVEL_ASSERT / _MASK
sys/arch/x86/include/i82489reg.h	Rev. 1.11

- Add virtio driver - speed up disk and network access in virtual environments
sys/arch/i386/conf/GENERIC		Rev. 1.1055
sys/arch/i386/conf/ALL			Rev. 1.325
sys/arch/amd64/conf/GENERIC		Rev. 1.338
sys/dev/pci/files.pci			Rev. 1.350
sys/dev/pci/if_vioif.c			Rev. 0-1.2
sys/dev/pci/ld_virtio.c			Rev. 0-1.4
sys/dev/pci/viomb.c			Rev. 0-1.1
sys/dev/pci/virtio.c			Rev. 0-1.3
sys/dev/pci/virtioreg.h			Rev. 0-1.1
sys/dev/pci/virtiovar.h			Rev. 0-1.1
distrib/sets/lists/man/mi		Rev. 1.1352 and 1.1358
share/man/man4/Makefile			Rev. 1.573 and 1.575
share/man/man4/ld.4			Rev. 1.19
share/man/man4/virtio.4			Rev. 0-1.4
share/man/man4/vioif.4			Rev. 0-1.2
share/man/man4/viomb.4			Rev. 0-1.2

Allow NetBSD to run unmodified under Linux/kvm.

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.Dd November 26, 2011
.Dt VIOIF 4
.Os
.Sh NAME
.Nm vioif
.Nd VirtIO NIC driver
.Sh SYNOPSIS
.Cd "virtio* at pci? dev ? function ?"
.Cd "vioif*  at virtio?"
.Sh DESCRIPTION
.Xr virtio 4
defines an interface for efficient, standard, and extensible I/O between the
hypervisor and the virtual machine.
The
.Nm
driver supports virtio-compliant virtual network interface cards.
.Sh SEE ALSO
.Xr netintro 4 ,
.Xr virtio 4 ,
.Xr ifconfig 8
.Rs
.%A Rusty Russell, IBM Corporation
.%T Virtio PCI Card Specification
.%O http://ozlabs.org/~rusty/virtio-spec/
.Re
.Sh HISTORY
The
.Nm
device driver appeared in
.Nx 6.0 .
.Sh BUGS
No offloading support.