Re: [Qemu-devel] [PATCH] hw/s390x: Add the possibility to specify the netboot image on the command line

[Cornelia Huck]

On Tue, 27 Feb 2018 12:32:34 +0100
Thomas Huth <address@hidden> wrote:

> The file name of the netboot binary is currently hard-coded to
> "s390-netboot.img", without a possibility for the user to select
> an alternative firmware image here. That's unfortunate, especially
> since the basics are already there: The filename is a property of
> the s390-ipl device. So we just have to add a check whether the user
> already provided the property and only set the default if the string
> is still empty. Now it is possible to select a different firmware
> image with "-global s390-ipl.netboot_fw=/path/to/s390-netboot.img".
> 
> Signed-off-by: Thomas Huth <address@hidden>
> ---
>  hw/s390x/s390-virtio-ccw.c | 4 +++-
>  1 file changed, 3 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)
> 
> diff --git a/hw/s390x/s390-virtio-ccw.c b/hw/s390x/s390-virtio-ccw.c
> index 4abbe89..7b3fb5f 100644
> --- a/hw/s390x/s390-virtio-ccw.c
> +++ b/hw/s390x/s390-virtio-ccw.c
> @@ -254,8 +254,10 @@ static void s390_init_ipl_dev(const char 
> *kernel_filename,
>      }
>      qdev_prop_set_string(dev, "cmdline", kernel_cmdline);
>      qdev_prop_set_string(dev, "firmware", firmware);
> -    qdev_prop_set_string(dev, "netboot_fw", netboot_fw);
>      qdev_prop_set_bit(dev, "enforce_bios", enforce_bios);
> +    if (!strlen(object_property_get_str(new, "netboot_fw", &error_abort))) {
> +        qdev_prop_set_string(dev, "netboot_fw", netboot_fw);
> +    }
>      object_property_add_child(qdev_get_machine(), TYPE_S390_IPL,
>                                new, NULL);
>      object_unref(new);

Thanks, applied.