I've grep'ed the kernel source (2.4.7-ac3 which I happened to have sitting on my R/390) and found conmode= as a kernel parm (/usr/src/linux/arch/s390/kernel/setup.c). I assume that support is there in later kernels.
I think the last time we discussed this on the list the thoughts were to have default as 3215 with 3270 included in the kernel. The P/390, R/390 users and others who didn't want 3215 for VM PROP support could include conmode=3270 as a kernel parm to silo/zilo/zipl. (I run my VM 2.3 guest with 3270 - so I don't have to change anything to run native.) Regards, Dougie Lawson -- ITS Technical Support Enterprise/ASSIST IMS, DB2 & Linux
