Re: [PATCH v5 10/11] hw/arm: Wire up BMC boot flash for npcm750-evb and quanta-gsj

[Havard Skinnemoen]

On Wed, Jul 15, 2020 at 1:54 PM Havard Skinnemoen
<hskinnemoen@google.com> wrote:
>
> On Wed, Jul 15, 2020 at 3:57 AM Philippe Mathieu-Daudé <f4bug@amsat.org> 
> wrote:
> >
> > On 7/15/20 11:00 AM, Markus Armbruster wrote:
> > > Now my point.  Why first make up user configuration, then use that to
> > > create a BlockBackend, when you could just go ahead and create the
> > > BlockBackend?
> >
> > CLI issue mostly.
> >
> > We can solve it similarly to the recent "sdcard: Do not allow invalid SD
> > card sizes" patch:
> >
> >  if (!dinfo) {
> >      error_setg(errp, "Missing SPI flash drive");
> >      error_append_hint(errp, "You can use a dummy drive using:\n");
> >      error_append_hint(errp, "-drive if=mtd,driver=null-co,"
> >                              "read-ones=on,size=64M\n);
> >      return;
> >  }
> >
> > having npcm7xx_connect_flash() taking an Error* argument,
> > and MachineClass::init() call it with &error_fatal.
>
> Erroring out if the user specifies a configuration that can't possibly
> boot sounds good to me. Better than trying to come up with defaults
> that are still not going to result in a bootable system.
>
> For testing recovery paths, I think it makes sense to explicitly
> specify a null device as you suggest.

Hmm, one problem. qom-test fails with

qemu-system-aarch64: Missing SPI flash drive
You can add a dummy drive using:
-drive if=mtd,driver=null-co,read-zeroes=on,size=32M
Broken pipe
/usr/local/google/home/hskinnemoen/qemu/for-upstream/tests/qtest/libqtest.c:166:
kill_qemu() tried to terminate QEMU process but encountered exit
status 1 (expected 0)
ERROR qom-test - too few tests run (expected 68, got 7)

So it looks like we might need a different solution to this, unless we
want to make generic tests more machine-aware...