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

[Cornelia Huck]

On Wed, 12 Jul 2017 15:04:17 +0200
Thomas Huth <address@hidden> wrote:

> 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?

+1