From: Cornelia Huck <cohuck@redhat.com>
To: Thomas Huth <thuth@redhat.com>
Cc: "Jason J . Herne" <jjherne@linux.ibm.com>,
Collin Walling <walling@linux.ibm.com>,
Janosch Frank <frankja@linux.ibm.com>,
qemu-devel@nongnu.org,
Christian Borntraeger <borntraeger@de.ibm.com>,
qemu-s390x@nongnu.org, Claudio Imbrenda <imbrenda@linux.ibm.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH for-5.2 6/6] pc-bios/s390-ccw: Allow booting in case the first virtio-blk disk is bad
Date: Wed, 5 Aug 2020 12:27:08 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20200805122708.070919ff.cohuck@redhat.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <7810397f-4199-ffab-1bc2-9b7513133aff@redhat.com>
On Wed, 5 Aug 2020 12:08:59 +0200
Thomas Huth <thuth@redhat.com> wrote:
> On 05/08/2020 12.04, Cornelia Huck wrote:
> > On Tue, 28 Jul 2020 20:37:34 +0200
> > Thomas Huth <thuth@redhat.com> wrote:
> >
> >> If you try to boot with two virtio-blk disks (without bootindex), and
> >> only the second one is bootable, the s390-ccw bios currently stops at
> >> the first disk and does not continue booting from the second one. This
> >> is annoying - and all other major QEMU firmwares succeed to boot from
> >> the second disk in this case, so we should do the same in the s390-ccw
> >> bios, too.
> >
> > Does it make sense to do something like that for other device types as
> > well?
>
> It would be nice if we could do the same for virtio-scsi disks, but the
> code is written in a way here that it will need much more thinking,
> cleanups and time to get this done right...
Yeah, let's just go for the lower-hanging fruit first, and then see if
someone's sufficiently motivated to grab a ladder.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2020-08-05 10:28 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 36+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2020-07-28 18:37 [PATCH for-5.2 0/6] Continue booting in case the first device is not bootable Thomas Huth
2020-07-28 18:37 ` [PATCH for-5.2 1/6] pc-bios/s390-ccw/Makefile: Compile with -std=gnu99, -fwrapv and -fno-common Thomas Huth
2020-07-29 8:00 ` Claudio Imbrenda
2020-07-29 8:34 ` Cornelia Huck
2020-07-31 7:46 ` Janosch Frank
2020-07-31 7:51 ` Thomas Huth
2020-07-28 18:37 ` [PATCH for-5.2 2/6] pc-bios/s390-ccw: Move ipl-related code from main() into a separate function Thomas Huth
2020-07-29 8:01 ` Claudio Imbrenda
2020-07-29 8:47 ` Cornelia Huck
2020-07-29 11:05 ` Thomas Huth
2020-08-05 9:16 ` Cornelia Huck
2020-08-04 12:52 ` Janosch Frank
2020-07-28 18:37 ` [PATCH for-5.2 3/6] pc-bios/s390-ccw: Move the inner logic of find_subch() to " Thomas Huth
2020-07-29 8:54 ` Cornelia Huck
2020-07-29 11:13 ` Thomas Huth
2020-08-05 9:19 ` Cornelia Huck
2020-08-03 8:46 ` Claudio Imbrenda
2020-08-04 13:24 ` Thomas Huth
2020-08-04 15:30 ` Claudio Imbrenda
2020-08-04 13:26 ` Janosch Frank
2020-07-28 18:37 ` [PATCH for-5.2 4/6] pc-bios/s390-ccw: Do not bail out early if not finding a SCSI disk Thomas Huth
2020-07-29 10:03 ` Cornelia Huck
2020-07-28 18:37 ` [PATCH for-5.2 5/6] pc-bios/s390-ccw: Scan through all boot devices if none has been specified Thomas Huth
2020-08-04 11:06 ` Claudio Imbrenda
2020-08-05 9:36 ` Cornelia Huck
2020-08-05 9:39 ` Thomas Huth
2020-07-28 18:37 ` [PATCH for-5.2 6/6] pc-bios/s390-ccw: Allow booting in case the first virtio-blk disk is bad Thomas Huth
2020-08-05 10:04 ` Cornelia Huck
2020-08-05 10:08 ` Thomas Huth
2020-08-05 10:27 ` Cornelia Huck [this message]
2020-07-29 10:10 ` [PATCH for-5.2 0/6] Continue booting in case the first device is not bootable Cornelia Huck
2020-07-29 11:42 ` Viktor Mihajlovski
2020-07-29 17:17 ` Cornelia Huck
2020-07-30 4:39 ` Thomas Huth
2020-08-04 14:49 ` Janosch Frank
2020-08-04 15:19 ` Thomas Huth
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