Bug#964812: linux: Pulling Google Compute Engine Virtual Ethernet Driver into Debian

[David Awogbemila <awogbemila@google.com>]

Source: linux
Severity: wishlist

Dear Maintainer,
 
Google would like to have its cloud networking driver, the Google
Compute Engine Virtual Ethernet driver (GVE) pulled into Debian
releases.
 
This driver has been accepted into the upstream Linux kernel
since version 5.2:
https://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/stable/linux.git/tree/drivers/net/ethernet/google?h=v5.4.46).
 
I understand that the first step towards this is enabling the driver 
in Debian's unstable and testing releases so I have attached the
relevant Kconfig file for GVE to this bug report.
 
GVE can be configured in the kernel's config file with:
 
CONFIG_GVE=m
CONFIG_NET_VENDOR_GOOGLE=y
 
We're also looking to have the driver backported into Debian 10
source.
 
Please let me know other steps we need to take to accomplish the goals
listed above.
 
Best
David

-- System Information:
Debian Release: 10.4
  APT prefers stable-updates
  APT policy: (500, 'stable-updates'), (500, 'stable')
Architecture: amd64 (x86_64)

Kernel: Linux 4.19.0-9-cloud-amd64 (SMP w/16 CPU cores)
Locale: LANG=C.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=C.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8), LANGUAGE=C.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8)
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/dash
Init: systemd (via /run/systemd/system)
LSM: AppArmor: enabled