From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([208.118.235.92]:37103) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1StbX0-0003YJ-EO for qemu-devel@nongnu.org; Tue, 24 Jul 2012 05:35:55 -0400 Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1StbWu-0005ai-Qx for qemu-devel@nongnu.org; Tue, 24 Jul 2012 05:35:54 -0400 Received: from mx1.redhat.com ([209.132.183.28]:7473) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1StbWu-0005ad-Ht for qemu-devel@nongnu.org; Tue, 24 Jul 2012 05:35:48 -0400 Message-ID: <500E6C70.9010901@redhat.com> Date: Tue, 24 Jul 2012 11:35:44 +0200 From: Kevin Wolf MIME-Version: 1.0 References: <1342449360-15227-1-git-send-email-kwolf@redhat.com> <1342449360-15227-3-git-send-email-kwolf@redhat.com> <50052A68.4060001@redhat.com> In-Reply-To: Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Subject: Re: [Qemu-devel] [PATCH 2/2] fdc-test: Check RELATIVE SEEK beyond track 0/80 List-Id: List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , To: Blue Swirl Cc: Pavel Hrdina , qemu-devel@nongnu.org Am 23.07.2012 19:09, schrieb Blue Swirl: > On Tue, Jul 17, 2012 at 9:03 AM, Pavel Hrdina wrote: >> I tested it on the real floppy and the behavior is more complicated. > > This reminds me of an idea: it could be interesting to make qtest test > real hardware, for example using a serial port to feed commands and > get responses. The same protocol which libqtest uses could be > interpreted by a boot loader level program or kernel module. The existing qtest cases wouldn't necessarily work there because they don't care about timing. Not sure if it's worth the effort writing real drivers in qtest cases just to be able to run them against real hardware occasionally. Kevin