From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Andrew Jones Date: Tue, 04 Aug 2015 13:21:53 +0000 Subject: Re: [kvm-unit-tests PATCH 11/14] powerpc/ppc64: add rtas_power_off Message-Id: <20150804132153.GD3355@hawk.localdomain> List-Id: References: <1438612891-3718-1-git-send-email-drjones@redhat.com> <1438612891-3718-12-git-send-email-drjones@redhat.com> <55BFA001.6070900@redhat.com> <20150804040952.GE3080@voom.redhat.com> <20150804074759.GD13384@hawk.localdomain> <55C0BAED.3050205@redhat.com> In-Reply-To: <55C0BAED.3050205@redhat.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit To: Paolo Bonzini Cc: David Gibson , kvm@vger.kernel.org, kvm-ppc@vger.kernel.org, dgibson@redhat.com, agraf@suse.de, thuth@redhat.com, lvivier@redhat.com On Tue, Aug 04, 2015 at 03:15:25PM +0200, Paolo Bonzini wrote: > > > On 04/08/2015 09:47, Andrew Jones wrote: > >> > In early development we did have a hypercall mediated virtio model, > >> > but it was abandoned once we got PCI working. > > So I think by yours and Alex's responses, if we want testdev support > > then we should target using pci to expose it. I'm ok with that, but > > prefer not to be distracted with it while getting ppc kickstarted. > > So, question for Paolo, are you OK with the exitcode snooper "cheat"? > > If we want that we should use it for x86 and ARM as well. However, > attaching the char testdev to a spapr-vty (virtio-mmio made little > sense) should be easy. OK, I'll look at doing the vty approach first. Thanks, drew