[USER] OpenPower 720 support?

[Dave Hansen]

On Fri, 2004-09-17 at 10:01, Kevin P. Fleming wrote:
> Dave Hansen 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. 
> 
> OK, how does your answer change if I _don't_ use DLPAR, but only static 
> LPAR changes made through the HMC?

Then, you shouldn't have any problems that I can think of.  At that
point the HMC becomes a cold partition configurator and an expensive
power switch :)

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

Not open source.  At all.

-- Dave