From: Christian Borntraeger <borntraeger@de.ibm.com>
To: Alexander Graf <agraf@suse.de>
Cc: Carsten Otte <cotte@de.ibm.com>,
programming.philipp.muens@googlemail.com,
"qemu-devel@nongnu.org" <qemu-devel@nongnu.org>
Subject: Re: [Qemu-devel] [PATCH] s390: remove boot image detection to fix boot with newer kernels
Date: Thu, 08 Sep 2011 16:48:37 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <4E68D5C5.6040908@de.ibm.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <230D9300-1A87-48F0-A655-1564FA0E49B0@suse.de>
On 07/09/11 14:34, Alexander Graf wrote:
>> No, in theory it could change arbitrarily. The vmlinux case is unfortunate
>> but in the end its "shoot yourself in the foot", we just have to make sure
>> that we allow a graceful exit from a looping qemu guest.
>
> That's not the answer I'd like to hear. Can't we put a magic constant somewhere
>for newer kernel versions that would identify those and keep the basr 13,0 hack
> around for older ones?
I will wire up the elf loader for s390, to make vmlinux simply work. That should
make the test no longer needed.
There are some small problems left, e.g. the elf loader loads the kernel as bios
afterwards and therefore overwrites the kernel parameter line. Will fix this in the
next days.
Christian
prev parent reply other threads:[~2011-09-08 14:48 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 5+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2011-09-06 11:41 [Qemu-devel] [PATCH] s390: remove boot image detection to fix boot with newer kernels Christian Borntraeger
2011-09-07 11:56 ` Alexander Graf
2011-09-07 12:33 ` Christian Borntraeger
2011-09-07 12:34 ` Alexander Graf
2011-09-08 14:48 ` Christian Borntraeger [this message]
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