January 2006
Intermediate to advanced
226 pages
6h 11m
English
book
Linux for IBM System z9 and IBM zSeries
by Gregory Geiselhart, Robert Brenneman, Eli Dow, Klaus Egeler, Torsten Gutenberger, Bruce Hayden, Livio Sousa
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2 Linux for IBM System z9 and IBM zSeries
1.1 The zSeries and System z9 servers
The IBM Eserver zSeries and System z9 are based on z/Architecture - the next
step in the evolution from the System/360 to the System/370, System/370
extended architecture (370-XA), Enterprise Systems Architecture/370
(ESA/370), and Enterprise Systems Architecture/390 (ESA/390).
1.2 The central processing complex
This section describes the central processing complex.
1.2.1 Processing units
All processor units (PUs) are physically the same. At Power-on Reset (POR),
distinct microcode loaded in the PU determines its processor type:
Central Processor (CP)
CPs are enabled to execute any operation system available on zSeries
(including z/OS, z/VM, Linux, VSE, and TPF). ...
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