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Re: [qemu-s390x] [PATCH v5 00/15] s390: vfio-ccw dasd ipl support


From: Thomas Huth
Subject: Re: [qemu-s390x] [PATCH v5 00/15] s390: vfio-ccw dasd ipl support
Date: Thu, 21 Mar 2019 09:15:57 +0100
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On 20/03/2019 16.11, Jason J. Herne wrote:
> On 3/13/19 12:31 PM, Jason J. Herne wrote:
>> This is to support booting from vfio-ccw dasd devices. We basically
>> implement
>> the real hardware ipl procedure. This allows for booting Linux guests on
>> vfio-ccw devices.
>>
>> vfio-ccw's channel program prefetch algorithm complicates ipl because
>> most ipl
>> channel programs dynamically modify themselves. Details on the ipl
>> process and
>> how we worked around this issue can be found in
>> docs/devel/s390-dasd-ipl.txt.
>>
>> Changelog
>> ==========
>> v5
>> - Whitespace changes and comments.
>> - Added newlines to printed strings in patch 15.
>>
> ...
> 
> Ping. Thomas or Christian, are you ready to pick this series up or do
> you feel we need any more work?

Sorry, I was out of office during the last week ... I'll try to have a
closer look during the next days... (but it's too late for 4.0 now since
we're already in the freeze period).

 Thomas



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