Re: s390 qemu boot failure in -next

[Christian Borntraeger <borntraeger@de.ibm.com>]

On 06/26/2018 10:29 AM, Cornelia Huck wrote:
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>>>>  
>>>>          if (ipl->initrd) {
>>>>              ram_addr_t initrd_offset;
>>>>
>>>> would put the command line in no matter what the start address is.  
>>>
>>> I'm for putting that one in (and backporting it to qemu-stable). It's a
>>> bit worrying, though, that our ipl code is so fragile...  
>>
>> We actually have to combine this with Thomas fix (to check for rom_ptr returning
>> something sane). It seems that ipl->commandline is always there, so we have to
>> check for strlen!=0 it seems..
>>
>> I mean if somebody ask for "-append something" we can certainly always write something
>> if there is rom/ram.
> 
> Given that the uncompressed image is not supposed to be bootable
> anymore, does it make sense to add this anyway?

I think we can drop this patch for now.

> 
> I'll go ahead and queue Thomas' fix, though.

yes, please