Richards, Robert B. wrote:
You are not going to like the answer, Wayne.
IBM *will* do personality (zAAP to IFL, zAAP to zIIP, etc.) changes for
a price, but they will not allow zAAP/zIIP processors to execute VM or
Linux natively. Same reason IFLs cannot run z/OS.
Err.. That's a bit different !
z/OS not being able to run on IFLs is because z/OS will refuse to run on
it (and not because it can't technically do so).
Linux on z is a different issue. zAAPs or zIIPs may lack some basic
functions (IPL ?) and I'm not sure you can even set a LPAR exclusively
with zAAPs and zIIPs.. However, I can't see what would prevent a mix of
IFL+n*zAAP+m*zIIP LPAR from running linux (unless, again, there is too
much stuff stripped from the zAAPs & zIIPs that would prevent it from
running general purpose threads).
--Ivan
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