Bug 1388223

Summary: RHEL 7.3 beta install guide does not list PowerLE as supported on bare-metal
Product: Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7 Reporter: Scott Eldridge <seldridg>
Component: doc-Installation_GuideAssignee: Clayton Spicer <cspicer>
Status: CLOSED CURRENTRELEASE QA Contact: ecs-bugs
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Version: 7.3CC: cspicer, pbokoc, rhel-docs, seldridg, syangsao
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Description Scott Eldridge 2016-10-24 19:10:32 UTC 
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RHEL 7.3 beta install guide does not list PowerLE as supported on bare-metal

https://access.redhat.com/documentation/en-US/Red_Hat_Enterprise_Linux/7-Beta/html-single/Installation_Guide/index.html#sect-installation-planning-hardware-compatibility-ppc says in section 8.2:

"Starting with version 7.1, Red Hat Enterprise Linux also offers a little endian variant for IBM Power Systems. This variant is only compatible with POWER8 processors, and is only supported as a KVM guest, not on bare-metal hardware."

However, RHEL 7.2 introduced support for bare-metal installs.   

https://access.redhat.com/documentation/en-US/Red_Hat_Enterprise_Linux/7/html-single/7.2_Release_Notes/index.html#chap-Red_Hat_Enterprise_Linux-7.2_Release_Notes-Architectures says:

"Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7.2 (little endian) is currently supported as a KVM guest on Red Hat Enterprise Virtualization for Power, on PowerVM and PowerNV (bare metal)."

The release notes for 7.3 beta look correct.   Just not the install guide.




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Comment 4 Petr Bokoc 2017-04-10 19:50:36 UTC 
Released: https://access.redhat.com/documentation/en-US/Red_Hat_Enterprise_Linux/7/html/Installation_Guide/sect-installation-planning-hardware-compatibility-ppc.html