Bug#685134: Bug#684909: Bug#685134: [s390-tools] please add patch from qemu

On Thu, Oct 19, 2017 at 2:01 PM, Philipp Kern <[email protected]> wrote:

> On 02/03/2016 09:27 AM, Viktor Mihajlovski wrote:
> > On 02.02.2016 01:01, Dimitri John Ledkov wrote:
> >> On Fri, 17 Aug 2012 11:21:04 +0200 bastien ROUCARIES
> >> <[email protected]> wrote:
> >>> Please add http://repo.or.cz/w/s390-tools.git for booting s390 from
> qemu. it port virtio.
> >>> I have ported the pach queue to recent s390-tools. Not tested only
> merge without conflict.
> >> Is this still required? I see that qemu-2.5 has support for booting El
> >> Torito .iso images, and it boots Debian off virtio block drives just
> >> fine.
> >>
> >> Granted, it looks like debian packaging strips the s390 firmware file,
> >> and doesn't rebuild it. Maybe that should simply be fixed and that's
> >> it?
> > Right, including the firmware file would be the proper way to enable
> > QEMU for booting on s390.
>
> If I understand it correctly, this is now obsoleted by the fact that
> qemu dropped s390-virtio and runs with their own s390-ccw rom now that's
> built from the qemu source. Is that correct? Can we close the s390-tools
> bug at least? And I suppose arrange for s390-ccw.rom to be shipped from
> the qemu package?
>
>
On Ubuntu there already is: /usr/share/qemu/s390-ccw.img
which works for me as part package qemu-system-s390x.

That is part of the suggested contribution in bug 874347 already.
See #2 in that bug and the suggestion to accept it without an ubuntu: label
in d/control-in.


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Christian Ehrhardt
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