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1862dadd65SYuri PankovThe vmxnet3s driver is a paravirtualized GLDv3 NIC driver designed to
19*ca5345b6SSebastien Roybe used on VMware virtual machines version 7 and later.  This version
20*ca5345b6SSebastien Royof the driver is based on the "stable-10.0.x" branch of the VMware
21*ca5345b6SSebastien Royopen-vm-tools which can be obtained from:
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2362dadd65SYuri Pankovhttps://github.com/vmware/open-vm-tools
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25*ca5345b6SSebastien RoyChanges from stable-10.0.x include:
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27*ca5345b6SSebastien Roy* add support for VLANs
28*ca5345b6SSebastien Roy* enable building in the illumos gate
29*ca5345b6SSebastien Roy* enable building with the Sun Studio compiler
30*ca5345b6SSebastien Roy* lint cleanup: the driver is lint clean with two categorical
3162dadd65SYuri Pankov  exceptions for which warnings are disabled in the Makefile
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33*ca5345b6SSebastien RoyThe driver remains in the original C style to facilitate potential
34*ca5345b6SSebastien Royfuture synchronization with upstream.
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