From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Paolo Bonzini Subject: Re: [kvm-unit-tests PATCH 11/14] powerpc/ppc64: add rtas_power_off Date: Tue, 4 Aug 2015 15:15:25 +0200 Message-ID: <55C0BAED.3050205@redhat.com> 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> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=windows-1252 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Cc: kvm@vger.kernel.org, kvm-ppc@vger.kernel.org, dgibson@redhat.com, agraf@suse.de, thuth@redhat.com, lvivier@redhat.com To: Andrew Jones , David Gibson Return-path: Received: from mx1.redhat.com ([209.132.183.28]:56255 "EHLO mx1.redhat.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S933077AbbHDNf4 (ORCPT ); Tue, 4 Aug 2015 09:35:56 -0400 In-Reply-To: <20150804074759.GD13384@hawk.localdomain> Sender: kvm-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: 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. Paolo