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  3. June 2001

Re: LPARS

Leif,

I'm thinking of hardware characteristics that are exposed at the OS level.
A command like DSPHDWRSC for example, or DSPDEVD etc. Somehow, the OS would
have to be patched to recognize models that didn't exist when it was
originally released? Am I wrong?


John Taylor
Canada

----- Original Message -----
From: "Leif Svalgaard" <leif@leif.org>

> What has hardware to do with any of this? It is not hardware that
> provides LPARS but software. Even if new instructions were added
> to the PowerPC to support LPAR, V3R7 wouldn't use any of these
> and wouldn't know the difference.


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