Re: [PATCH] hw/sd/sdcard: Allow user creation of eMMCs

["Daniel P. Berrangé" <berrange@redhat.com>]

On Tue, Oct 15, 2024 at 05:17:26PM +0200, Cédric Le Goater wrote:
> On 10/15/24 17:00, Philippe Mathieu-Daudé wrote:
> > On 15/10/24 10:56, Jan Luebbe wrote:
> > > For testing eMMC-specific functionality (such as handling boot
> > > partitions), it would be very useful to attach them to generic VMs such
> > > as x86_64 via the sdhci-pci device:
> > >   ...
> > >   -drive if=none,id=emmc-drive,file=emmc.img,format=raw \
> > >   -device sdhci-pci \
> > >   -device emmc,id=emmc0,drive=emmc-drive,boot-partition-size=1048576 \
> > >   ...
> > > 
> > > While most eMMCs are soldered to boards, they can also be connected to
> > > SD controllers with just a passive adapter, such as:
> > >   https://docs.radxa.com/en/accessories/emmc-to-usd
> > >   https://github.com/voltlog/emmc-wfbga153-microsd
> > > 
> > > The only change necessary to make the options above work is to avoid
> > > disabling user_creatable, so do that. The SDHCI-PCI driver in the Linux
> > > kernel already supports this just fine.
> > > 
> > > Signed-off-by: Jan Luebbe <jlu@pengutronix.de>
> 
> Nice !
> 
> Would it be possible to add an avocado test ?

NB, no new avocado tests please. Only use the recently introduced
'functional' tests framework for new tests.


With regards,
Daniel
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