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From: Peter Xu <peterx@redhat.com>
To: Paolo Bonzini <pbonzini@redhat.com>
Cc: "Michael S. Tsirkin" <mst@redhat.com>,
	qemu-devel@nongnu.org, marcel@redhat.com
Subject: Re: [Qemu-devel] [PATCH] pci-testdev: enhance to support new testcases
Date: Wed, 28 Sep 2016 11:04:10 +0800	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20160928030410.GA11134@pxdev.xzpeter.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1274680733.3041530.1474971209712.JavaMail.zimbra@redhat.com>

On Tue, Sep 27, 2016 at 06:13:29AM -0400, Paolo Bonzini wrote:
> 
> > Take my example: IOMMU unit test would want the guest to send DMA/IRQ
> > request from the device's perspective. In that case, we would like to
> > "tell" the pci-testdev about where to write the DMA, and what data to
> > write specifically, or which IRQ to trigger. That's something we
> > cannot do right now. And I don't want to just add a new test case for
> > that specifically. I think we can make it more common.
> 
> Do we need to use the pci-testdev?  There's also for example
> the edu device, or we could just use virtio-serial with a null
> backend.

It's interesting to know that there is such an edu device. So it not
only suits for education, but tailored for IOMMU unit test as well. :)

-- peterx

      reply	other threads:[~2016-09-28  3:04 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 8+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2016-09-22  6:15 [Qemu-devel] [PATCH] pci-testdev: enhance to support new testcases Peter Xu
2016-09-22 11:18 ` Andrew Jones
2016-09-23  3:37   ` Peter Xu
2016-09-22 18:23 ` Michael S. Tsirkin
2016-09-27  6:37   ` Peter Xu
2016-09-27  8:38     ` Peter Xu
2016-09-27 10:13       ` Paolo Bonzini
2016-09-28  3:04         ` Peter Xu [this message]

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