HP-UX Virtual Partitions Administrator Guide (includes A.05.09) (5900-2188, March 2012)

On Integrity systems, memory is divided into the granules by the firmware; therefore, it is required
that you set and match the corresponding EFI variables.
PA-RISC systems. There is only one area where granularity values are set: the vPars database.
For PA-RISC, there are no granularity values in the PA-RISC firmware. The memory is divided into
the granules by the vPars Monitor itself. Note that this means the update firmware option ([:y]) of
vparcreate is ignored on PA-RISC.
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