IBM Announces Strategic Collaboration with Arm to Shape the Future of Enterprise Computing

Collaboration aims to advance new technologies that expand infrastructure choice while preserving mission-critical environments ARMONK, N.Y., April 2, 2026 /PRNewswire/ -- IBM (NYSE: IBM) today...

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Ah, that explains this patchset that was submitted to the Linux kernel today

"KVM: s390: Introduce arm64 KVM"

"By introducing a novel virtualization acceleration for the ARM architecture on
s390 architecture, we aim to expand the platform's software ecosystem. This
initial patch series lays the groundwork by enabling KVM-accelerated ARM CPU
virtualization on s390....."

https://patchwork.kernel.org/project/linux-arm-kernel/cover/...

[v1,00/27] KVM: s390: Introduce arm64 KVM - Patchwork

Oh that's a weird way to do it; they used to have an x86 add on block for mainframes which was just a pile of x86 blades with some integration.