On 9/6/06, inci yeker selkan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
What I suspect is, linux/390 does not like to have the same device number with others. Am I right in this??? (question 1)
If you talk about Linux in LPAR, I am not aware of any difference in this. I think later drivers even nicely work around the even/odd restrictions when you specify the wrong devices.
By the way, is there an equivalent of mvscp OS config ,/EDT(eligible device numbers) for linux/390???? (question 2)
Linux in LPAR will "see" all the OSA devices that are in the IOCDS for the LPAR. You select the tripod you need by having hwconfig scripts that activate the right set and map it onto a qeth* number. There's entries in the /sys file system that represent the real devices of the LPAR, and by writing into these entries you communicate with the device drivers. For disks you can tell the driver only to use a set of addresses, but with root access you can get to the others as well if you want (or make a mistake).
Where do I define them? I mean, where do I say the Osa device number ? I say it in answering the network related questions during ipl, is it enough? Should I mention it in the parmline file. (question 3)
Previously this was through parameters in the /etc/chandev.conf and way before then it was with kernel parameters in the parmfile. Rob ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For LINUX-390 subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with the message: INFO LINUX-390 or visit http://www.marist.edu/htbin/wlvindex?LINUX-390
