From patchwork Wed Oct 23 13:17:05 2024 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="utf-8" MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Patchwork-Submitter: Thomas Huth X-Patchwork-Id: 13847072 Return-Path: X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.4.0 (2014-02-07) on aws-us-west-2-korg-lkml-1.web.codeaurora.org Received: from lists.gnu.org (lists.gnu.org [209.51.188.17]) (using TLSv1.2 with cipher ECDHE-RSA-AES256-GCM-SHA384 (256/256 bits)) (No client certificate requested) by smtp.lore.kernel.org (Postfix) with ESMTPS id 61743CF5386 for ; Wed, 23 Oct 2024 13:18:51 +0000 (UTC) Received: from localhost ([::1] helo=lists1p.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1t3bFk-0007NF-Lf; Wed, 23 Oct 2024 09:18:22 -0400 Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:470:142:3::10]) by lists.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS1.2:ECDHE_RSA_AES_256_GCM_SHA384:256) (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1t3bFa-0007Cc-5S for qemu-devel@nongnu.org; Wed, 23 Oct 2024 09:18:10 -0400 Received: from us-smtp-delivery-124.mimecast.com ([170.10.129.124]) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS1.2:ECDHE_RSA_AES_256_GCM_SHA384:256) (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1t3bFX-0002EF-SI for qemu-devel@nongnu.org; Wed, 23 Oct 2024 09:18:09 -0400 DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=redhat.com; s=mimecast20190719; t=1729689487; h=from:from:reply-to:subject:subject:date:date:message-id:message-id: to:to:cc:cc:mime-version:mime-version: content-transfer-encoding:content-transfer-encoding: in-reply-to:in-reply-to:references:references; bh=ZOrPBPZ2cEU3IJjuze0yE0HxYzK5ZQRQxdoBIuqI4Wk=; b=Bp/soMaPjOriyAr22LDDDKqU5YO9YLJaEkntKsgoBFfEffIQDB3fdlIFtDA+aJ1O/a7VJ+ jxOl6Wj4s82l19n3LHHNLIJYGL3fl8UxYfnONvSn0F+38SsXSvZYz2+KXgwmsdO4eaS6kS wYeePmh4cmwQIFiq6K/aPSiFL3pm1+0= Received: from mx-prod-mc-02.mail-002.prod.us-west-2.aws.redhat.com (ec2-54-186-198-63.us-west-2.compute.amazonaws.com [54.186.198.63]) by relay.mimecast.com with ESMTP with STARTTLS (version=TLSv1.3, cipher=TLS_AES_256_GCM_SHA384) id us-mta-503-kf-Ce2NbMraSxvZVsGB6xw-1; Wed, 23 Oct 2024 09:18:05 -0400 X-MC-Unique: kf-Ce2NbMraSxvZVsGB6xw-1 Received: from mx-prod-int-04.mail-002.prod.us-west-2.aws.redhat.com (mx-prod-int-04.mail-002.prod.us-west-2.aws.redhat.com [10.30.177.40]) (using TLSv1.3 with cipher TLS_AES_256_GCM_SHA384 (256/256 bits) key-exchange X25519 server-signature RSA-PSS (2048 bits) server-digest SHA256) (No client certificate requested) by mx-prod-mc-02.mail-002.prod.us-west-2.aws.redhat.com (Postfix) with ESMTPS id 5BF711937227; Wed, 23 Oct 2024 13:18:00 +0000 (UTC) Received: from thuth-p1g4.redhat.com (unknown [10.39.192.43]) by mx-prod-int-04.mail-002.prod.us-west-2.aws.redhat.com (Postfix) with ESMTP id 7B09C1954B10; Wed, 23 Oct 2024 13:17:57 +0000 (UTC) From: Thomas Huth To: qemu-devel@nongnu.org Cc: Peter Maydell , Jared Rossi Subject: [PULL 18/23] docs/system: Update documentation for s390x IPL Date: Wed, 23 Oct 2024 15:17:05 +0200 Message-ID: <20241023131710.906748-19-thuth@redhat.com> In-Reply-To: <20241023131710.906748-1-thuth@redhat.com> References: <20241023131710.906748-1-thuth@redhat.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 X-Scanned-By: MIMEDefang 3.0 on 10.30.177.40 Received-SPF: pass client-ip=170.10.129.124; envelope-from=thuth@redhat.com; helo=us-smtp-delivery-124.mimecast.com X-Spam_score_int: -40 X-Spam_score: -4.1 X-Spam_bar: ---- X-Spam_report: (-4.1 / 5.0 requ) BAYES_00=-1.9, DKIMWL_WL_HIGH=-0.263, DKIM_SIGNED=0.1, DKIM_VALID=-0.1, DKIM_VALID_AU=-0.1, DKIM_VALID_EF=-0.1, RCVD_IN_DNSWL_NONE=-0.0001, RCVD_IN_MSPIKE_H2=-1.697, RCVD_IN_VALIDITY_CERTIFIED_BLOCKED=0.001, RCVD_IN_VALIDITY_RPBL_BLOCKED=0.001, SPF_HELO_NONE=0.001, SPF_PASS=-0.001 autolearn=ham autolearn_force=no X-Spam_action: no action X-BeenThere: qemu-devel@nongnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.29 Precedence: list List-Id: List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Errors-To: qemu-devel-bounces+qemu-devel=archiver.kernel.org@nongnu.org Sender: qemu-devel-bounces+qemu-devel=archiver.kernel.org@nongnu.org From: Jared Rossi Update docs to show that s390x PC BIOS can support more than one boot device. Signed-off-by: Jared Rossi Reviewed-by: Thomas Huth Message-ID: <20241020012953.1380075-19-jrossi@linux.ibm.com> Signed-off-by: Thomas Huth --- docs/system/bootindex.rst | 7 ++++--- docs/system/s390x/bootdevices.rst | 9 ++++++--- 2 files changed, 10 insertions(+), 6 deletions(-) diff --git a/docs/system/bootindex.rst b/docs/system/bootindex.rst index 8b057f812f..988f7b3beb 100644 --- a/docs/system/bootindex.rst +++ b/docs/system/bootindex.rst @@ -49,10 +49,11 @@ Limitations ----------- Some firmware has limitations on which devices can be considered for -booting. For instance, the PC BIOS boot specification allows only one -disk to be bootable. If boot from disk fails for some reason, the BIOS +booting. For instance, the x86 PC BIOS boot specification allows only one +disk to be bootable. If boot from disk fails for some reason, the x86 BIOS won't retry booting from other disk. It can still try to boot from -floppy or net, though. +floppy or net, though. In the case of s390x BIOS, the BIOS will try up to +8 total devices, any number of which may be disks. Sometimes, firmware cannot map the device path QEMU wants firmware to boot from to a boot method. It doesn't happen for devices the firmware diff --git a/docs/system/s390x/bootdevices.rst b/docs/system/s390x/bootdevices.rst index c97efb8fc0..1a1a764c1c 100644 --- a/docs/system/s390x/bootdevices.rst +++ b/docs/system/s390x/bootdevices.rst @@ -6,9 +6,7 @@ Booting with bootindex parameter For classical mainframe guests (i.e. LPAR or z/VM installations), you always have to explicitly specify the disk where you want to boot from (or "IPL" from, -in s390x-speak -- IPL means "Initial Program Load"). In particular, there can -also be only one boot device according to the architecture specification, thus -specifying multiple boot devices is not possible (yet). +in s390x-speak -- IPL means "Initial Program Load"). So for booting an s390x guest in QEMU, you should always mark the device where you want to boot from with the ``bootindex`` property, for @@ -17,6 +15,11 @@ example:: qemu-system-s390x -drive if=none,id=dr1,file=guest.qcow2 \ -device virtio-blk,drive=dr1,bootindex=1 +Multiple devices may have a bootindex. The lowest bootindex is assigned to the +device to IPL first. If the IPL fails for the first, the device with the second +lowest bootindex will be tried and so on until IPL is successful or there are no +remaining boot devices to try. + For booting from a CD-ROM ISO image (which needs to include El-Torito boot information in order to be bootable), it is recommended to specify a ``scsi-cd`` device, for example like this::