From: Thomas Huth <thuth@redhat.com>
To: Paolo Bonzini <pbonzini@redhat.com>,
Alexey Kardashevskiy <aik@ozlabs.ru>
Cc: Stefano Garzarella <sgarzare@redhat.com>,
Christian Borntraeger <borntraeger@de.ibm.com>,
David Gibson <david@gibson.dropbear.id.au>,
qemu-devel <qemu-devel@nongnu.org>,
Cornelia Huck <conny@cornelia-huck.de>
Subject: Re: VW ELF loader
Date: Tue, 4 Feb 2020 07:16:46 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <d13eea1d-7942-47e0-6189-a66ce9639db4@redhat.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <CABgObfa4tUVBbpBtoY3JFSF8-0mRVxgGbzQokc+JrJGPagwPaQ@mail.gmail.com>
On 04/02/2020 00.26, Paolo Bonzini wrote:
>
>
> Il mar 4 feb 2020, 00:20 Alexey Kardashevskiy <aik@ozlabs.ru
> <mailto:aik@ozlabs.ru>> ha scritto:
>
> Speaking seriously, what would I put into the guest?
>
> Only things that would be considered drivers. Ignore the partitions
> issue for now so that you can just pass the device tree services to QEMU
> with hypercalls.
>
> Netboot's dhcp/tftp/ip/ipv6 client? It is going to be another SLOF,
> smaller but adhoc with only a couple of people knowing it.
>
>
> You can generalize and reuse the s390 code. All you have to write is the
> PCI scan and virtio-pci setup.
Well, for netbooting, the s390-ccw bios uses the libnet code from SLOF,
so re-using this for a slim netboot client on ppc64 would certainly be
feasible (especially since there are also already virtio drivers in SLOF
that are written in C), but I think it is not very future proof. The
libnet from SLOF only supports UDP, and no TCP. So for advanced boot
scenarios like booting from HTTP or even HTTPS, you need something else
(i.e. maybe grub is the better option, indeed).
Thomas
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2020-02-04 6:17 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 48+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2020-02-01 13:39 VW ELF loader Alexey Kardashevskiy
2020-02-01 19:04 ` Paolo Bonzini
2020-02-02 11:51 ` Alexey Kardashevskiy
2020-02-02 17:38 ` Paolo Bonzini
2020-02-03 1:31 ` David Gibson
2020-02-03 1:28 ` David Gibson
2020-02-03 9:12 ` Paolo Bonzini
2020-02-03 9:50 ` David Gibson
2020-02-03 10:58 ` Alexey Kardashevskiy
2020-02-03 15:08 ` Paolo Bonzini
2020-02-03 22:36 ` Alexey Kardashevskiy
2020-02-03 22:56 ` Paolo Bonzini
2020-02-03 23:19 ` Alexey Kardashevskiy
2020-02-03 23:26 ` Paolo Bonzini
2020-02-04 6:16 ` Thomas Huth [this message]
2020-02-04 8:54 ` Cornelia Huck
2020-02-04 9:20 ` Restrictions of libnet (was: Re: VW ELF loader) Thomas Huth
2020-02-04 9:32 ` Thomas Huth
2020-02-04 9:33 ` Michal Suchánek
2020-02-05 5:30 ` David Gibson
2020-02-05 6:24 ` Thomas Huth
2020-02-10 7:55 ` David Gibson
2020-02-10 9:39 ` Michal Suchánek
2020-02-13 3:16 ` David Gibson
2020-02-04 23:18 ` VW ELF loader Alexey Kardashevskiy
2020-02-05 6:06 ` David Gibson
2020-02-05 9:28 ` Cornelia Huck
2020-02-06 4:47 ` David Gibson
2020-02-06 8:27 ` Paolo Bonzini
2020-02-06 23:17 ` Alexey Kardashevskiy
2020-02-06 23:45 ` Paolo Bonzini
2020-02-10 7:30 ` David Gibson
2020-02-10 10:37 ` Peter Maydell
2020-02-10 11:25 ` Paolo Bonzini
2020-02-14 3:23 ` David Gibson
2020-02-10 7:28 ` David Gibson
2020-02-10 11:26 ` Paolo Bonzini
2020-02-14 4:02 ` David Gibson
2020-02-05 5:58 ` David Gibson
2020-02-06 8:29 ` Paolo Bonzini
2020-02-06 23:23 ` Alexey Kardashevskiy
2020-02-06 23:46 ` Paolo Bonzini
2020-02-10 0:31 ` Alexey Kardashevskiy
2020-02-13 1:43 ` Alexey Kardashevskiy
2020-02-13 10:17 ` Paolo Bonzini
2020-02-14 0:01 ` Alexey Kardashevskiy
2020-02-14 2:30 ` David Gibson
2020-02-04 9:40 ` Christian Borntraeger
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