kvm/s390/s390-pv-boot.rst

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4 s390 (IBM Z) Boot/IPL of Protected VMs
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13 Documentation/virt/kvm/s390/s390-pv.rst for details."
15 On IPL (boot) a small plaintext bootloader is started, which provides
28 executables and data via every available method (network, dasd, scsi,
29 direct kernel, ...) without the need to change the boot process.
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36 IPL information blocks, that specify the IPL method/devices and
46 The new PV load-device-specific-parameters field specifies all data
52    * AES-XTS Tweak prefix
63 contain the guest content. All non-specified pages will start out as
73 non-clearing IPL subcodes are not allowed.
76 Re-IPL into a protected mode is only possible via a detour into non
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83 See  `s390-tools <https://github.com/ibm-s390-linux/s390-tools/>`_