Re: OSA Card Sharing on Linux

2010-05-08 Thread Alan Altmark
On Saturday, 05/08/2010 at 09:58 EST, Błażej Ślusarek wrote: > Thanks for a quick reply and clarification of the portname setting. > a > Well, the error I get is, hmm, timeout? Any form of network connection > I'm trying to initiate just hangs for some time, then it spits out a > "Connection Erro

Re: OSA Card Sharing on Linux

2010-05-08 Thread Błażej Ślusarek
Thanks for a quick reply and clarification of the portname setting. a Well, the error I get is, hmm, timeout? Any form of network connection I'm trying to initiate just hangs for some time, then it spits out a "Connection Error" or something similar (depends on application). I doubt it's a configur

Re: OSA Card Sharing on Linux

2010-05-08 Thread Alan Altmark
On Saturday, 05/08/2010 at 02:29 EST, Błażej Ślusarek wrote: > I can't get OSA to share the connection between multiple LPARs. The > first LPAR is running debian, lsqeth output is: > > Device name : eth0 > - > card_type :

OSA Card Sharing on Linux

2010-05-08 Thread Błażej Ślusarek
Hello, I can't get OSA to share the connection between multiple LPARs. The first LPAR is running debian, lsqeth output is: Device name : eth0 - card_type : OSD_100 cdev0 : 0.0.

Re: linux vmstat "steal" column

2010-05-08 Thread Alan Ackerman
Why do you want to know what CP is doing? There really isn't any way that I know of to find out. You could turn on various traces, and then write code to post-process those traces and see what CP is doing. (Or ask IBM to process them.) But unfortunately, turning on the traces would probably slow

Re: Linux boot image for s390

2010-05-08 Thread Błażej Ślusarek
Hello, First of all, thanks for quick reply and explanation of some basics. Well, the distribution I'm trying to install (gentoo) doesn't provide the installation image, however the s390 architecture is supported. So I'm forced to create the image by myself. I'll try to cross-compile the kernel an

Re: Linux boot image for s390

2010-05-08 Thread Mark Post
>>> On 5/8/2010 at 01:57 PM, B*a*ej Œlusarek wrote: > I would like to know how to create my own Linux boot image, which I > could use with the real s390 machine to get working linux environment > and proceed further with the installation. Are you creating your own Linux distribution? If not, wha

Linux boot image for s390

2010-05-08 Thread Błażej Ślusarek
Hello, I would like to know how to create my own Linux boot image, which I could use with the real s390 machine to get working linux environment and proceed further with the installation. I know I need the kernel image, initrd and parmfile, but are these three files enough to get Linux shell and s