Re: [Qemu-devel] [PATCH 6/6] [S390] Add firmware code

2010-04-12 Thread Carsten Otte
Aurelien Jarno wrote: I am not fully comfortable introducing a binary firmware based on a patch posted on a website. I see two options: - Get your patch merged into ZIPL, so that we can build the firmware directly from the ZIPL sources - Add the patch to the pc-bios/ directory Looks like we'll

Re: [Qemu-devel] [PATCH 6/6] [S390] Add firmware code

2010-04-10 Thread Alexander Graf
On 10.04.2010, at 02:00, Aurelien Jarno wrote: On Sat, Apr 10, 2010 at 01:29:55AM +0200, Alexander Graf wrote: On 09.04.2010, at 22:17, Aurelien Jarno wrote: On Thu, Apr 01, 2010 at 06:42:41PM +0200, Alexander Graf wrote: This patch adds a firmware blob to the S390 target. The blob is a

Re: [Qemu-devel] [PATCH 6/6] [S390] Add firmware code

2010-04-10 Thread Aurelien Jarno
On Sat, Apr 10, 2010 at 11:22:37AM +0200, Alexander Graf wrote: On 10.04.2010, at 02:00, Aurelien Jarno wrote: On Sat, Apr 10, 2010 at 01:29:55AM +0200, Alexander Graf wrote: On 09.04.2010, at 22:17, Aurelien Jarno wrote: On Thu, Apr 01, 2010 at 06:42:41PM +0200, Alexander Graf

Re: [Qemu-devel] [PATCH 6/6] [S390] Add firmware code

2010-04-09 Thread Aurelien Jarno
On Thu, Apr 01, 2010 at 06:42:41PM +0200, Alexander Graf wrote: This patch adds a firmware blob to the S390 target. The blob is a simple implementation of a virtio client that tries to read the second stage bootloader from sectors described as of offset 0x20 in the MBR. In combination with

Re: [Qemu-devel] [PATCH 6/6] [S390] Add firmware code

2010-04-09 Thread Alexander Graf
On 09.04.2010, at 22:17, Aurelien Jarno wrote: On Thu, Apr 01, 2010 at 06:42:41PM +0200, Alexander Graf wrote: This patch adds a firmware blob to the S390 target. The blob is a simple implementation of a virtio client that tries to read the second stage bootloader from sectors described as

Re: [Qemu-devel] [PATCH 6/6] [S390] Add firmware code

2010-04-09 Thread Aurelien Jarno
On Sat, Apr 10, 2010 at 01:29:55AM +0200, Alexander Graf wrote: On 09.04.2010, at 22:17, Aurelien Jarno wrote: On Thu, Apr 01, 2010 at 06:42:41PM +0200, Alexander Graf wrote: This patch adds a firmware blob to the S390 target. The blob is a simple implementation of a virtio client that

[Qemu-devel] [PATCH 6/6] [S390] Add firmware code

2010-04-01 Thread Alexander Graf
This patch adds a firmware blob to the S390 target. The blob is a simple implementation of a virtio client that tries to read the second stage bootloader from sectors described as of offset 0x20 in the MBR. In combination with an updated zipl this allows for booting from virtio block devices.