On 07/09/11 13:56, Alexander Graf wrote: > > On 06.09.2011, at 13:41, Christian Borntraeger wrote: > >> 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. > > Is there any other sane way we can find out if the image we're loading is > actually bootable? I don't want users to do qemu-system-s390x -kernel > vmlinux and see it just plain fail.
No, in theory it could change arbitrarily. The vmlinux case is unfortunate but in the end its "shoot yourself in the foot", we just have to make sure that we allow a graceful exit from a looping qemu guest. Christian
