Re: [0/7] PMEM device emulation without nfit depenency

Dan Williams
2020-12-24T18:27:08Z

On Mon, Dec 21, 2020 at 8:23 PM Santosh Sivaraj <santosh@fossix.org> wrote:
>
> The current test module cannot be used for testing platforms (make check)
> that do not have support for NFIT. In order to get the ndctl tests working,
> we need a module which can emulate NVDIMM devices without relying on
> ACPI/NFIT.
>
> The emulated PMEM device is made part of the PAPR family.
>
> Corresponding changes for ndctl is also required, to add attributes needed
> for the test, which will be sent as a reply to this patch.
>
> None of tests passed on PAPR before, now there are 16 test that pass. Error
> injection tests and SMART are not yet implemented.
>

Thanks Santosh, I'll circle back to this after the holiday break. I
assume it can go in for v5.11 post -rc1 since it has zero regression
risk.