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18The vmxnet3s driver is a paravirtualized GLDv3 NIC driver designed to
19be used on VMware virtual machines version 7 and later.  This version
20of the driver is based on the "stable-10.0.x" branch of the VMware
21open-vm-tools which can be obtained from:
22
23https://github.com/vmware/open-vm-tools
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25Changes from stable-10.0.x include:
26
27* add support for VLANs
28* enable building in the illumos gate
29* enable building with the Sun Studio compiler
30* lint cleanup: the driver is lint clean with two categorical
31  exceptions for which warnings are disabled in the Makefile
32
33The driver remains in the original C style to facilitate potential
34future synchronization with upstream.
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