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The vmxnet3s driver is a paravirtualized GLDv3 NIC driver designed to
be used on VMware virtual machines version 7 and later.  This version
of the driver is based on the "stable-10.0.x" branch of the VMware
open-vm-tools which can be obtained from:

https://github.com/vmware/open-vm-tools

Changes from stable-10.0.x include:

* add support for VLANs
* enable building in the illumos gate
* enable building with the Sun Studio compiler
* lint cleanup: the driver is lint clean with two categorical
  exceptions for which warnings are disabled in the Makefile

The driver remains in the original C style to facilitate potential
future synchronization with upstream.