<html><body><p><tt><font size="2">> Thanks for replies Dan & Frank!<br>> <br>> I've discussed this issue more today with IBM guys; and what I <br>> understood is that this Alternate version is more or less for <br>> Baremetal installations (like in Power AI HW); but when using e.g <br>> PowerVM; you should<br>> be able to go with the default RHEL with the 3.10 kernel on Power9 <br>> as well; it will just then work like RHEL 6 on Power8 (e.g will run <br>> on Power8 Compatibility mode) </font></tt><br><br><tt><font size="2">Yep.</font></tt><br><br><br><tt><font size="2">Both RHEL 7.5 LE for Power8 and RHEL-Alt 7.5 LE for Power9 will run fine in a Power9 PowerVM LPAR.</font></tt><br><br><tt><font size="2">The Power8 base will come up in p8compat mode - your example.</font></tt><br><br><tt><font size="2">The Power9 base will come up in P9 mode.</font></tt><br><br><br><br><tt><font size="2">Yes... the RHEL-Alt 7.5 version is *specifically* intended for Power9 bare-metal and KVM host support.</font></tt><br><br><tt><font size="2">That bare-metal support enables Nvidia Volta NVLink2 support.</font></tt><br><br><br><tt><font size="2"><br>> <br>> <br>> Br,<br>> tommi<br>> <br>> On 22/05/2018, 18.33, "Linuxppc-users on behalf of Dan Horák" <br>> <linuxppc-users-bounces+tommi.sihvo=tieto.com@lists.ozlabs.org on <br>> behalf of dan@danny.cz> wrote:<br>> <br>> On Tue, 22 May 2018 10:02:48 +0000<br>> <Tommi.Sihvo@tieto.com> wrote:<br>> <br>> > Hi,<br>> > <br>> > Does anyone know if the RHEL 7.5 Alternate version (built for full<br>> > support on Power9, with kernel version 4.14 ) will run on Power8 ?<br>> > And if yes…is it officially supported too ? ☺ Or is that Alternate<br>> > RHEL ONLY for Power9 usage?<br>> <br>> you should be able to confirm that on Red Hat website (or with Red Hat<br>> directly), but AFAIK RHEL 7.5 Alt is supported on Power9 only<br>> <br>> <br>> Dan</font></tt><BR>
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