[DOCS-8898] SLES 11 kernel does not support s390x vx instructions Created: 28/Sep/16  Updated: 30/Oct/23  Resolved: 01/Jun/18

Status: Closed
Project: Documentation
Component/s: Server
Affects Version/s: None
Fix Version/s: Server_Docs_20231030

Type: Task Priority: Major - P3
Reporter: Emily Hall Assignee: Andrew Aldridge
Resolution: Done Votes: 0
Labels: None
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documents SERVER-25853 SLES 11 kernel does not support s390x... Closed
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 Description   

Documentation Changes

  • Note on installation pages that SLES 12 is recommended on s390x systems.
  • Potentially release notes note.

Description

On SLES 11, the VX instructions are not supported. Support for this was added in 3.18: https://github.com/torvalds/linux/commit/80703617

Kernel Version: Linux sles11-z-2 3.0.101-68-default

> cat /proc/cpuinfo
vendor_id       : IBM/S390
# processors    : 4
bogomips per cpu: 20325.00
features        : esan3 zarch stfle msa ldisp eimm dfp etf3eh highgprs
processor 0: version = FF,  identification = 046A77,  machine = 2964
processor 1: version = FF,  identification = 046A77,  machine = 2964
processor 2: version = FF,  identification = 046A77,  machine = 2964
processor 3: version = FF,  identification = 046A77,  machine = 2964



 Comments   
Comment by Andrew Aldridge [ 01/Jun/18 ]

SLES 11 is EOL

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