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

19.10.2017 15:36, Christian Ehrhardt wrote:
> On Thu, Oct 19, 2017 at 2:01 PM, Philipp Kern <[email protected] <mailto:[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] <mailto:[email protected]>> wrote:
>     >>> Please add http://repo.or.cz/w/s390-tools.git <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.

There's no way to include firmware on debian without actually building it,
and building it, as far as I can see, only works on s390 architecture.
That's why we don't build other firmware stuff - either lack of cross-
compiler on all necessary architectures, or the requiriment to have
actual system of the necessary architecture (virtual or real). It'd be
nice to have it all in one place.

>     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.

Debian has much stricter policy wrt blobs (DFSG),
and debian builds for more architectures (the firmware,
if it is part of qemu-system-s390 package, needs to be
built on all architectures where this binary package
builts, or it needs to be a separate arch-all package).

I'll take look at all this once again.

It looks like the s390-tools bug can be closed indeed.

Thanks,

/mjt