[SLOF] [PATCH] libnet/tftp: Allow loading to address 0

Thomas Huth thuth at redhat.com
Fri Jun 30 16:24:51 AEST 2017


On 30.06.2017 08:06, Alexey Kardashevskiy wrote:
> On 28/06/17 21:46, Thomas Huth wrote:
>> It's theoretically possible to load a file to address 0, too, so
>> we should use a different marker than NULL to check for a valid
>> buffer.
> 
> Thanks, applied.

Thanks a lot!

> Out of curiosity - what brought this up? :)

I'm currently trying to re-use the libnet for network booting a s390x
guest, and kernels get loaded to address 0 there:

 https://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/qemu-devel/2017-06/msg05911.html

 Thomas


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