SLOF is required for building the s390-ccw firmware on s390x, since it is using the libnet code from SLOF for network booting.
If SLOF is absent and submodules are not updated, pc-bios/s390-ccw cannot be built. Signed-off-by: Paolo Bonzini <pbonz...@redhat.com> --- configure | 3 ++- 1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-) diff --git a/configure b/configure index 1d1b8736c0eb..c92a3b30b9a4 100755 --- a/configure +++ b/configure @@ -1662,7 +1662,8 @@ fi # Only build s390-ccw bios if the compiler has -march=z900 or -march=z10 # (which is the lowest architecture level that Clang supports) -if have_target s390x-softmmu && probe_target_compiler s390x-softmmu; then +if have_target s390x-softmmu && probe_target_compiler s390x-softmmu && \ + ( test "$git_submodules_action" != ignore || test -f roms/SLOF/VERSION ); then write_c_skeleton do_compiler "$target_cc" $target_cc_cflags -march=z900 -o $TMPO -c $TMPC has_z900=$? -- 2.40.1