On 20.02.2017 15:19, Cornelia Huck wrote: > This patchset implements network boot for s390x. You need to build > a s390-netboot.img to actually perform the work (not included).
Do you plan to include this into the upstream QEMU repository later, or will this stay an external binary? > Basically, we add support for virtio-net devices into the ipl code > and update the ccw bios to handle this as well. Just out of curiosity: What's the reason for shipping an additional binary here? Couldn't it be linked into the ccw bios as well (so that it's easier for the user to select a different version with the -bios parameter)? Thomas