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From: Andy Nolen-Parkhouse <aparkhouse@attbi.com> > Those are my thoughts. Aside from a basic distrust of large > corporations, why do you think that IBM would intentionally disable > support for Linux on partial processors in older machines? > I didn't say (or meant to say) that. To me Linux was not the issue. The issue was: do you NEED special hardware to run fractional partitions. What does hardware provide for this that can't be done in software? This question has not been answered. All I hear is that people "believe" this or that, or "have heard" this or that, or "IBM says" this or that. No valid technical reason (to my satisfaction) has been given. So, when the claim is fractional partitions won't work on older processors, it means to mean that some software must prevent that since the hardware does not. All it takes for me to shut up is that someone tells me specifically what NEW/different instruction(s) or MSR-bit(s) is/are used by/for fractional LPARs.
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