Re: [Qemu-devel] [PATCH v5 00/11] Implement network booting in the s390-ccw BIOS

[Thomas Huth]

On 12.07.2017 15:00, Christian Borntraeger wrote:
> On 07/12/2017 02:49 PM, Thomas Huth wrote:
>> It's already possible to do a network boot of an s390x guest with an
>> external netboot image based on a Linux installation, but it would
>> be much more convenient if the s390-ccw firmware supported network
>> booting right out of the box, without the need to assemble such an
>> external image first.
>>
>> This patch series now introduces a s390-netboot.img that can be used
>> for network booting via DHCP and TFTP by re-using the networking stack
>> from the SLOF firmware (see https://github.com/aik/SLOF/ for details),
>> and adds a driver for virtio-net-ccw devices.
[...]
> thanks applied.
> 
> (will do some testing and rebuilding of the image files on top). Where do
> we want to put the binary result? pc-bios/s390-netboot.img I assume?

Yes. And I guess we need to add a BLOBS entry in main Makefile for this,
too, so that it gets installed properly? Could you please do that, too,
after you've added the binary?

 Thomas