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Re: [qemu-s390x] [PATCH v2 0/4] pc-bios/s390-ccw: Allow network booting


From: Christian Borntraeger
Subject: Re: [qemu-s390x] [PATCH v2 0/4] pc-bios/s390-ccw: Allow network booting via pxelinux.cfg
Date: Mon, 11 Jun 2018 11:13:56 +0200
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On 06/07/2018 02:22 PM, Thomas Huth wrote:
> This patch series adds pxelinux.cfg-style network booting to the s390-ccw
> firmware. The core pxelinux.cfg loading and parsing logic has recently
> been merged to SLOF, so these patches now just have to make sure to call
> the right functions to get the config file loaded and parsed. Once this is
> done, the kernel and initrd are loaded separately, and are then glued
> together in RAM.
> 
> v2:
>  - Update SLOF submodule now that the git mirror is in sync again
>  - Last parameter to tftp_get_error_info() must not be NULL
>  - Check CC when calling STSI, and use a #define for the UUID offset
>  - Only support files with the magic "# pxelinux" string comment when
>    trying to guess the contents of a file that has been downloaded via
>    the "bootfile" DHCP parameter. This is just for developers' convenience,
>    the official way to specify pxelinux.cfg files is to use the DHCP
>    options 209 and 210 instead.
> 
> Thomas Huth (4):
>   roms: Update SLOF submodule to current status
>   pc-bios/s390-ccw/net: Update code for the latest changes in SLOF
>   pc-bios/s390-ccw/net: Add support for pxelinux-style config files
>   pc-bios/s390-ccw/net: Try to load pxelinux.cfg file accoring to the
>     UUID
> 
>  pc-bios/s390-ccw/netboot.mak |   9 +-
>  pc-bios/s390-ccw/netmain.c   | 226 
> +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++--------------
>  roms/SLOF                    |   2 +-
>  3 files changed, 162 insertions(+), 75 deletions(-)
> 

Series
Acked-by: Christian Borntraeger <address@hidden>




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