Bug 463692

Summary:	[LTC 6.0 FEAT] 201593:Sysplex Timer Protocol Support
Product:	Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6	Reporter:	IBM Bug Proxy <bugproxy>
Component:	kernel	Assignee:	Hans-Joachim Picht <hpicht>
Status:	CLOSED CURRENTRELEASE	QA Contact:	Martin Jenner <mjenner>
Severity:	high	Docs Contact:
Priority:	high
Version:	6.0	CC:	ejratl, peterm
Target Milestone:	alpha	Keywords:	FutureFeature
Target Release:	---
Hardware:	s390x
OS:	All
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Fixed In Version:		Doc Type:	Enhancement
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Last Closed:	2009-09-17 10:48:54 UTC	Type:	---
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oVirt Team:	---	RHEL 7.3 requirements from Atomic Host:
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Bug Blocks:	356741, 465489

Description IBM Bug Proxy 2008-09-24 06:30:30 UTC

=Comment: #0=================================================
Emily J. Ratliff <emilyr.com> - 2008-09-16 18:19 EDT
1. Feature Overview:
Feature Id:	[201593]
a. Name of Feature:	Sysplex Timer Protocol Support
b. Feature Description
Kernel implementation of the HW Sysplex Timer Protocol support, allowing Linux system to participate
in an STP environment.

2. Feature Details:
Sponsor:	zSeries
Architectures:
s390x

Arch Specificity: Purely Arch Specific Code
Affects Core Kernel: Yes
Delivery Mechanism: Direct from community
Category:	zSeries
Request Type:	Kernel - Enhancement from Upstream
d. Upstream Acceptance:	Accepted
Sponsor Priority	1
f. Severity: High
IBM Confidential:	no
Code Contribution:	IBM code
g. Component Version Target:	2.6.27

3. Business Case
Allows customer having a mixed systems environment to have the same time source to assure data
consistency groups among Linux and z/OS.

4. Primary contact at Red Hat: 
John Jarvis
jjarvis

5. Primary contacts at Partner:
Project Management Contact:
Hans-Georg Markgraf, mgrf.com, Boeblingen 49-7031-16-3978

Technical contact(s):

Gonzalo Muelas Serrano, gmuelas.com

IBM Manager:
Thomas Schwarz, t.schwarz.com

Comment 1 IBM Bug Proxy 2009-03-02 13:41:02 UTC

via upstream kernel, no code to attach to feature BZ

Comment 2 Hans-Joachim Picht 2009-09-17 10:48:54 UTC

Code is included in the rhel6 kernel via upstream. Marked as CLOSED/CURRENTRELEASE by by Hans-Joachim Picht <hpicht>

Comment 3 IBM Bug Proxy 2010-07-16 07:30:41 UTC

------- Comment From mgrf.com 2010-07-16 03:23 EDT-------
This feature is verified on R6 snapshots
Set feature to "verified"  Thx