Re: [PATCH for-5.2 0/6] Continue booting in case the first device is not bootable

[Thomas Huth <thuth@redhat.com>]

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On 04/08/2020 16.49, Janosch Frank wrote:
> On 7/28/20 8:37 PM, Thomas Huth wrote:
>> If the user did not specify a "bootindex" property, the s390-ccw bios
>> tries to find a bootable device on its own. Unfortunately, it alwasy
>> stops at the very first device that it can find, no matter whether it's
>> bootable or not. That causes some weird behavior, for example while
>>
>>  qemu-system-s390x -hda bootable.qcow2
>>
>> boots perfectly fine, the bios refuses to work if you just specify
>> a virtio-scsi controller in front of it:
>>
>>  qemu-system-s390x -device virtio-scsi -hda bootable.qcow2
>>
>> Since this is quite uncomfortable and confusing for the users, and
>> all major firmwares on other architectures correctly boot in such
>> cases, too, let's also try to teach the s390-ccw bios how to boot
>> in such cases.
>>
>> For this, we have to get rid of the various panic()s and IPL_assert()
>> statements at the "low-level" function and let the main code handle
>> the decision instead whether a boot from a device should fail or not,
>> so that the main code can continue searching in case it wants to.
> 
> Are you planning to add a/re-use an existing test for this?

Not yet, but maybe the cdrom-test could be used for testing some
scenarios. I'll have a look...

 Thomas


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