On Thursday, 07/08/2004 at 04:42 EST, Richard Troth <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> > http://www.research.ibm.com/journal/rd/483/banzhaf.pdf > > Excellent article. > Most complete description of SCSI IPL I have yet seen. > > The example of "OS specific load parameters" all the more strongly > implies that SCPDATA should be used to carry PARM string. So what is > lacking in the z/VM environment is a connection between two commands. It seems that Linux knows whether it's booting from SCSI or ECKD. In the former case, it can use the SCPDATA (which is up to 128 EBCDIC characters that have been UTF-8 encoded by CP or LPAR), which Linux does. In the latter case, Linux can use PARMs (with the patch). I don't see the imperative to change CP further. What problem is solved that cannot be solved more simply in Linux? Alan Altmark Sr. Software Engineer IBM z/VM Development ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For LINUX-390 subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with the message: INFO LINUX-390 or visit http://www.marist.edu/htbin/wlvindex?LINUX-390
