Add support for persistent vport definitions at creation at boot time

Also includes a few misc fixes for:
- conversion to vpi name from vport slang name
- couple of small mailbox references
- some additional discovery mods
Signed-off-by: NJames Smart <james.smart@emulex.com>
Signed-off-by: NJames Bottomley <James.Bottomley@HansenPartnership.com>