What about getting qemu 3.0 into cosmic? On Thu, Sep 6, 2018 at 2:41 AM Christian Ehrhardt < 1790...@bugs.launchpad.net> wrote:
> Hi, > this would not only require a backport that seems hard (plenty of other > cleanups/fixes to pc-bios/s390-ccw) but doable eventually with some extra > work. > That part of it would be SRUable if we want to spend all the effort as it > only fixes/improves the s390x netboot capabilities. > > The initial netboot capabilities were only added in the 2.12 version > (Cosmic) so we'd also need all the packaging changes. > That includes bringing back SLOF headers of the right version. > > And with SLOF we have the biggest issue, for this to actually work we'd > have to also bump SLOF quite a lot. Now that is a problem for many > potential issues between the binary SLOF and ppc-qemu working against it > vs the in-qemu-source SLOF that s390x needs to build the pxelinux. > > Together the effort is high and the regression risk even higher, if I'd > be SRU team I'd nack it so we might waste all the effort. > > -- > You received this bug notification because you are subscribed to the bug > report. > https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1790901 > > Title: > Backporting s390x pxelinux style network booting from qemu 3.0 to > bionic > > To manage notifications about this bug go to: > https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/qemu/+bug/1790901/+subscriptions > > Launchpad-Notification-Type: bug > Launchpad-Bug: distribution=ubuntu; sourcepackage=qemu; component=main; > status=New; importance=Undecided; assignee=None; > Launchpad-Bug-Information-Type: Public > Launchpad-Bug-Private: no > Launchpad-Bug-Security-Vulnerability: no > Launchpad-Bug-Commenters: andreserl paelzer > Launchpad-Bug-Reporter: Andres Rodriguez (andreserl) > Launchpad-Bug-Modifier: Christian Ehrhardt (paelzer) > Launchpad-Message-Rationale: Subscriber > Launchpad-Message-For: andreserl > -- Andres Rodriguez (RoAkSoAx) Ubuntu Server Developer MSc. Telecom & Networking Systems Engineer -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1790901 Title: Backporting s390x pxelinux style network booting from qemu 3.0 to bionic To manage notifications about this bug go to: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/qemu/+bug/1790901/+subscriptions -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list ubuntu-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs