On 3/3/2012 12:13 PM, Paul Gilmartin wrote:
On Sat, 3 Mar 2012 10:39:32 +0100, R.S. wrote:
W dniu 2012-03-03 07:34, Edward Jaffe pisze:
IMHO, STP should be included in the price of the machine.
Or at least "STP light" which would allow to use ETS (NTP).
However it's NOT incluted. :-(
I like that idea.
Is the hardware associated with STP physically disabled until the
customer pays for the feature?
If not, is the hardware sufficiently described in the PoOp (PrOp)
that such an interface to NTP could be developed by an ISV,
or even privately and contributed to cbttape? (No, I'm not
volunteering.)
If I understand the PoOp correctly, the clock steering instructions
are not available to LPAR mode, but only to BASIC mode.
For some time now only LPAR mode has been available to customers,
so clock steering can't be done by customer code.
If there is some way to switch to BASIC mode (maybe a DIAG) then
perhaps it could be done.
I would also vote to make STP a standard feature, but I don't
think IBM is taking votes right now. :-)
--
Richard
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