[virtio] Replace the virtio core and network device driver The existing virtio network driver has been somewhat hacked together over the past two decades by multiple contributors, and includes a substantial amount of logic that is almost but not quite duplicated between the "legacy" and "modern" code paths. Rip out the existing driver and replace with a completely new driver written based on the Virtual I/O Device specification document, not derived from the Linux kernel driver. Signed-off-by: Michael Brown <mcb30@ipxe.org>
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