Re: Netboot test suite: PXE instead of qemu -kernel?

[Seewer Philippe <philippe.seewer-omB+W0Dpw2o@public.gmane.org>]

David Dillow wrote:
[snip]
>> Additionally we could use -net tap* instead of -net socket, which would 
>> allow brctl setfd of a large value like 20 seconds to simulate the link 
>> delay in the test suite.
> 
> There is merit here, but I think we probably need to have a separate
> test suite to check the ip= option parsing. I haven't thought much how
> it should be done, other than it seems like we could use a pre-mount
> hook to check the configuration without needing to actually mount a real
> root.
> 
> If we have that test suite, then doing PXE boot or emulating BOOTIF=
> seems like a good idea. And I'd rather add a 20+ second delay to one or
> two tests here rather than every network root test we do.

I used an ugly copy of the nfs test suite to test ip= options handling. 
I'll try to make time this evening to clean it up and post it.
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