I'm not blaming Red Hat. IBM made the decision to keep their drivers OCO. They have also apparently made the decision not to keep them current. At the same time, I'm bombarded with the hype our local IBM marketing reps throw at the decision makers in our company that makes it sound like everything is there and ready to go with regards to Red Hat Linx on S/390.
If IBM wants their customers to run Linux ONLY under VM on 390 hardware, they should come right out and say so. Then I guess we'd bite the bullet, license VM and start learning it. If they want to continue to claim it can run in an LPAR or in basic mode, they need to devote the resources required to keep their OCO modules current. One would have thought having drivers compatible with the GA release of Red Hat would have been enough incentive for IBM. Even a statement of intent from IBM as to when the drivers might be available would be welcome. Having Red Hat Linux installed and running in an LPAR with no IP connectivity isn't of much use to me. I've tried bitching at IBM, but I'm either bitching via the wrong channels or they just don't care. -----Original Message----- From: Dorsey James - jdorse [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Tuesday, December 18, 2001 12:30 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: LCS drivers for 2.4.9 ? okay, you made me pipe up again. Since the OCO modules are IBM's responsibility ( and can't be RedHat's since they can't support them since they are closed source ). The responsibility of making the Redhat release work with the lcs falls into the lap of the IBM developers who own the damn code. If you want it in RedHat, it'll be open sourced.. and pronto. If not, then bitch at IBM.
