September 2001
Intermediate to advanced
580 pages
12h 30m
English
book
Linux for IBM eServer zSeries and S/390: Distributions
by Michael MacIsaac, Ronald Annuss, Wolfgang Engel, Chris Gombola, Timothy Nunes, Mark Post, Don Stubbs, Egon Terwedow, Craig Vernon
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522 Linux for IBM ^ zSeries and S/390: Distributions
In regard to the parameter file, note the following:
Linux for zSeries and S/390 has a general read routine that reads in chunks
of 1024 bytes. This routine handles short blocks. When reading the parameter
file, this will be normally the case.
The Linux for S/390 kernel handles parameter data up to only 896 bytes. This
is a
hard limit. You cannot exceed it.
In case you have a setting that ends exactly in the last column of a “card”,
insert a blank in column one on the following card if you have to continue with
further parameters. This is necessary because all card images are
concatenated and presented as one line of text to the kernel.
For drivers that are compiled as modules, an impor ...
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