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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