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

[Jason J. Herne]

On 08/15/2018 07:48 AM, Cornelia Huck wrote:
> On Thu,  5 Jul 2018 13:25:28 -0400
> "Jason J. Herne" <address@hidden> 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.
>
> Cleaning up my mail backlog... I think there were some comments; will
> there be a new version forthcoming?

Yes there will. We're hitting a hang now and not sure if it is a device, 
configuration or coding problem. Once I get that cleared up I'll be back 
for round #2.

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-- Jason J. Herne (address@hidden)