It is rather curious that IBM is being so territorial in this regard. It would be extraordinarily difficult to break into the system Z clone market, I would think. People are, I get the impression, largely stuck with IBM unless they completely change the way in which they operate their mainframe. This is obviously restricted by the fact that we're by and large talking about high volume production servers that can't afford to be brought offline for any length of time, short of some major disaster. It does seem very much as though one hand giveth whilst the other hand taketh away.
Erik Johnson On Wed, Apr 1, 2009 at 11:55 AM, David Boyes <dbo...@sinenomine.net> wrote: > On 4/1/09 11:36 AM, "Kirk Wolf" <k...@dovetail.com> wrote: >> >> What about GPL-licensed code using proprietary (closed) instructions and >> hipervisor features (DIAG, etc)? >> Aren't micro/millicode and zVM hipervisor vectors "the new OCO" with >> respect to Linux and Solaris on z? > > Thus the complete lack of comments in the QDIO code in Linux and the minimal > formatting. Just this side of closed-source. > > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- > For LINUX-390 subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, > send email to lists...@vm.marist.edu with the message: INFO LINUX-390 or visit > http://www.marist.edu/htbin/wlvindex?LINUX-390 > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For LINUX-390 subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to lists...@vm.marist.edu with the message: INFO LINUX-390 or visit http://www.marist.edu/htbin/wlvindex?LINUX-390
