Re: VW ELF loader

[Cornelia Huck]

On Tue, 4 Feb 2020 07:16:46 +0100
Thomas Huth <address@hidden> wrote:

> On 04/02/2020 00.26, Paolo Bonzini wrote:
> > 
> > 
> > Il mar 4 feb 2020, 00:20 Alexey Kardashevskiy <address@hidden
> > <mailto:address@hidden>> ha scritto:
> > 
> >     Speaking seriously, what would I put into the guest?
> > 
> > Only things that would be considered drivers. Ignore the partitions
> > issue for now so that you can just pass the device tree services to QEMU
> > with hypercalls.
> > 
> >     Netboot's dhcp/tftp/ip/ipv6 client? It is going to be another SLOF,
> >     smaller but adhoc with only a couple of people knowing it.
> > 
> > 
> > You can generalize and reuse the s390 code. All you have to write is the
> > PCI scan and virtio-pci setup.  
> 
> Well, for netbooting, the s390-ccw bios uses the libnet code from SLOF,
> so re-using this for a slim netboot client on ppc64 would certainly be
> feasible (especially since there are also already virtio drivers in SLOF
> that are written in C), but I think it is not very future proof. The
> libnet from SLOF only supports UDP, and no TCP. So for advanced boot
> scenarios like booting from HTTP or even HTTPS, you need something else
> (i.e. maybe grub is the better option, indeed).

That makes me wonder what that means for s390: We're inheriting
libnet's limitations, but we don't have grub -- do we need to come up
with something different? Or improve libnet?