Alex, Newer kernels will not always have a 0dd0 (basr 13,0) at address 0x10000. (e.g. current linux-next). We must not rely on specific code at certain addresses, so lets just remove this check.
Reported-by: Philipp Muens <programming.philipp.mu...@googlemail.com> Signed-off-by: Christian Borntraeger <borntrae...@de.ibm.com> --- hw/s390-virtio.c | 5 ----- 1 file changed, 5 deletions(-) Index: b/hw/s390-virtio.c =================================================================== --- a/hw/s390-virtio.c +++ b/hw/s390-virtio.c @@ -193,11 +193,6 @@ static void s390_init(ram_addr_t my_ram_ if (kernel_filename) { kernel_size = load_image(kernel_filename, qemu_get_ram_ptr(0)); - if (lduw_be_phys(KERN_IMAGE_START) != 0x0dd0) { - fprintf(stderr, "Specified image is not an s390 boot image\n"); - exit(1); - } - env->psw.addr = KERN_IMAGE_START; env->psw.mask = 0x0000000180000000ULL; } else {