On Fri, 2 Sep 2011 09:54:31 -0500 Stephen Frazier wrote: > Looking at IBM past support for new hardware in guests of z/VM, I > would suggest that it will be supported in z/VM 7.1 or before. Look > for edat facility support to be added in a as yet unannounced point > release of z/VM 6.?. Also, IBM probably will not talk about it until > they are ready to announce it.
Maybe it's my jaundiced eye, but I have a different perspective on this. IBM are the proprietary (monopoly ?) supplier of both the hardware and the software (in the case of z/VM). So you can't tell me they don't know what's in the "future product". Why isn't support there "day one" ?. Look how long it took for CP 32-bit storage constraint relief to make it out the door - how about STP support ?. z/OS knows all about (non-virtualized) big page support - and Martin and his mates were able to fudge it *in the guest*. This is hipervisor responsibility. Maybe if/when live guest relocation makes it out the door, such features will suddenly become worthwhile investing developer time in. Shane ... ---------------------------------------------------------------------- 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 more information on Linux on System z, visit http://wiki.linuxvm.org/
