Re: [Qemu-devel] [PATCH 1/1] s390: IPL device for s390

[Alexander Graf]

On 04.05.2012, at 15:44, Christian Borntraeger wrote:

> An IPL (booting) on s390 of SCSI disks is done by a firmware component.
> Lets implement this scheme as an qemu device that also allows to
> configure the IPL like the HMC. We have a parameter iplid that
> refers to a disk device and a load parm that specifies the entry
> on the disk to be ipled. We also provide a default device
> if no -device s390-ipl statement is given.

Any reason we can't do this in guest firmware code?


Alex