[USER] OpenPower 720 support?

[Kevin P. Fleming]

Dave Hansen wrote:

> Let me just say that the software that interfaces with the HMC is very
> powerful.  So powerful, in fact, that it has a number of very
> intertwined components.  

That does not surprise me in the least.

> I once knew a young, naive, Linux kernel developer who thought that he
> could do DLPAR operations on his Debian machine.  He failed, and uses
> SLES9 for that development to this day.  It can surely be done, he just
> wasn't clever or patient enough to figure it out. 

OK, how does your answer change if I _don't_ use DLPAR, but only static 
LPAR changes made through the HMC?

Also, are you saying that the kernel/userspace bits of SLES9 to handle 
DLPAR are not open-source, or just hard to extract?