The BootLoaderSpec (BLS) defines a file format for boot configurations,
so bootloaders can parse these files and create their boot menu entries
by using the information provided by them [0].
This allow to configure the boot items as drop-in files in a directory
instead of having to parse and modify a bootloader configuration file.
If the /boot/loader/entries exists and there are BLS files there, then
these are parsed and configuration sections are added without the need
to have these in a zipl.conf file.
A different BLS directory can be specified from the command line using
the --blsdir option.
[0]: https://www.freedesktop.org/wiki/Specifications/BootLoaderSpec/
GitHub-ID: #28
Signed-off-by: Javier Martinez Canillas <javierm@redhat.com>
Reviewed-by: Stefan Haberland <sth@linux.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Jan Höppner <hoeppner@linux.ibm.com>
The function returns 0 on success and a negative number on error but is
useful to know how many tokens were allocated. This will be used by the
BLS parsing code to determine if needs to allocate mor tokens or not to
parse the BLS fragments.
GitHub-ID: #28
Signed-off-by: Javier Martinez Canillas <javierm@redhat.com>
Reviewed-by: Stefan Haberland <sth@linux.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Jan Höppner <hoeppner@linux.ibm.com>
Update zipl DASD standalone dumpers for single-volume, multi-volume and FBA
to drop the sets of zero pages when dumping memory to disk. Thus, all
continuous sets of zero-megabytes in the memory are dropped during the dump
stage.
Signed-off-by: Mikhail Zaslonko <zaslonko@linux.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Jan Höppner <hoeppner@linux.ibm.com>
Fix some warnings found by sparse.
Declare one function static and change static variables to defines.
Signed-off-by: Stefan Haberland <sth@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Jan Höppner <hoeppner@linux.ibm.com>
Remove unused include to fix an error reported by make C=1.
CHECK zipl/src/zipl_helper.device-mapper.o
../../include/lib/dasd_base.h:159:20: error: redefinition of struct hd_geometry
../../common.mak:234: recipe for target 'zipl_helper.device-mapper.o' failed
make: *** [zipl_helper.device-mapper.o] Error 1
The structure hd_geometry is defined in dasd_base.h.
Signed-off-by: Stefan Haberland <sth@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Jan Höppner <hoeppner@linux.ibm.com>
Compilers in Debian and Ubuntu default to enabling PIE for all binaries.
This is a poor fit for boot loader code that has strict requirements
for its layout. Hence always forcefully disable PIE.
As older compilers still need to be supported, no-pie usage is
conditional on CC's -dumpspecs output.
Fixes: #3
Signed-off-by: Philipp Kern <pkern@debian.org>
Signed-off-by: Stefan Haberland <sth@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
dasdview command does not accept the '-f' option so because of that the
command will always fail.
Fixes: #10
Signed-off-by: Rafael Fonseca <r4f4rfs@gmail.com>
Acked-by: Stefan Haberland <sth@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Stefan Haberland <sth@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
This commit is based on the s390-tools-1.39.0 version.
Changes on top of s390-tools-1.39.0:
- Add MIT license to all source files
- Add LICENSE file
- Transform REAMDE to README.md (markdown)
- Add AUTHORS.md file
- Add CONTRIBUTING.md file
- Move changelog from README to CHANGELOG.md file
Reviewed-by: Stefan Haberland <sth@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Michael Holzheu <holzheu@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
