[USER] OpenPower 720 support?

[Dave C Boutcher]

On Fri, Sep 17, 2004 at 10:29:05AM -0700, Kevin P. Fleming wrote:
> Dave C Boutcher wrote:
> >To do the kind of LPAR you want, you will need to buy an HMC (not sure
> >of the price, but perhaps significant) and you will also need something
> >that I think is not announced yet called the "Advanced Open
> >Virtualization Something" that will let you do more than one partition
> >per processor ("micropartitioning" in marketing-speak) and virtual I/O
> >(virtual ethernets for example.)
> 
> Right, an HMC is on the quote list. If the advanced LPAR product is 
> expensive/unavailable/unsupported on my distro, that would be an issue 
> because I do need to do more than one partition per CPU.

Advanced Open Virtualization Something is a "hardware feature" not a
Linux product....i.e. you buy a key and micropartitioning and
virtual I/O are enabled on your hardware.

-- 
Dave Boutcher