[USER] OpenPower 720 support?

[Dave Hansen]

On Fri, 2004-09-17 at 10:11, Joel Schopp wrote:
> > 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. 
> 
> Now, to the best of my knowledge all of the features you want are in the 
> mainline kernel.org kernel.  In specific I know that logical 
> partitioning, dynamic logical partitioning of cpus & io slots, shared 
> processors, etc are.  I'm even pretty sure (but don't quote me on this) 
> the virtual scsi, virtual ethernet, and virtual console are too.

DLPAR operations aren't done in the kernel.  They're done from userspace
via a closed, binary-only application that isn't very portable across
distributions.

-- Dave