[CentOS-devel] CentOS ppc64le hypervisor support

[Karanbir Singh]

On 13/01/16 16:40, Stephen John Smoogen wrote:
> On 13 January 2016 at 02:14, Karanbir Singh <mail-lists at karan.org> wrote:
>> On 12/01/16 17:17, James O'Connor wrote:
>>>
>>>> On Jan 12, 2016, at 8:11 AM, James Nash <jjnash at us.ibm.com> wrote:
>>>>
>>>> Is there a list of "supported" methods for deployment of CentOS 7.2 on Power8? I know folks with VMs behind VIO servers with PowerVM. I understand VMs under PowerKVM with OPAL are also supported. Any ideas on bare metal CentOS under OPAL, Power8 with either latest firmware levels (FW840 or OP810)?
>>>>
>>>
>>> The correct answer is that if it’s supported in RHEL 7.2 ppc64le, then it’s supported by CentOS 7 1511 ppc64le.
>>>
>>
>> technically, nothing is 'supported' on CentOS. I wonder if we can find a
>> better word to communicate that.
>>
> 
> I would look for a word in "not English" because most of the English
> words end up having specific legal definitions which end up tripping
> up. I was thinking "implemented" because that is about all that CentOS
> is going to say it does. "We have a method that is implemented that
> will use ABC. We do not support this method."
> 

how about just 'works'. Does <feature> work on CentOS Linux ? Yes/No/Maybe


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