Re: [Qemu-devel] [PATCH v2 for-2.11 0/2] Improvements for the pxe tester

[Cornelia Huck <cohuck@redhat.com>]

On Tue, 15 Aug 2017 17:27:55 +0200
Cornelia Huck <cohuck@redhat.com> wrote:

> On Fri, 11 Aug 2017 07:57:54 +0200
> Thomas Huth <thuth@redhat.com> wrote:
> 
> > The first patch improves the buffer handling in the pxe tester a
> > little bit by allocating a separate buffer on the heap for each
> > architecture. This also gets rid of the huge pre-initialized
> > array in the tester, shrinking the size of the executable by
> > half of a megabyte!
> > The second patch adds s390x support to the pxe tester. Starting
> > with QEMU 2.10, the guest firmware on s390x can now net-boot via
> > TFTP, too, so we can automatically test this code in the pxe tester.
> > 
> > v2: Adressed Cornelia's review feedback from the first version, e.g.:
> >  - Use g_malloc0() instead of g_malloc()
> >  - Use sizeof with parentheses
> > 
> > Thomas Huth (2):
> >   tests/boot-sector: Do not overwrite the x86 buffer on other
> >     architectures
> >   tests/pxe: Check virtio-net-ccw on s390x
> > 
> >  tests/Makefile.include |  1 +
> >  tests/boot-sector.c    | 61 +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++-------------
> >  tests/pxe-test.c       |  7 ++++++
> >  3 files changed, 54 insertions(+), 15 deletions(-)
> >   
> 
> It's that question again: Who picks this up? :)
> 
> I can take it through the s390 tree if nobody else wants it.

OK, I just went ahead and queued it to my s390-next branch.