Re: [Qemu-devel] [PATCH v2 04/22] check: Only test isa-testdev when it is compiled in

[Paolo Bonzini]

On 10/08/2018 17:17, Juan Quintela wrote:
> Paolo Bonzini <address@hidden> wrote:
>> On 10/08/2018 13:08, Juan Quintela wrote:
>>>> Emanuele's qos-test would do this automatically.  It would be nicer to
>>>> convert the whole ISA subsystem to use libqos and qos-test...
>>> Can we get this in until we get some volunteer for that other work?
>>> /me full of things on his plate at the moment.
>>
>> Sure, but since this is RFC, I commented. :)
> 
> I didn't expect less of you O:-)
> 
>> With qos-test, all tests
>> end up in a single binary that is generic for all QEMU targets, and
>> there's no need to synchronize the configuration with the testing.
>>
>> The disadvantage of doing it at the Makefile level is that it relies on
>> the devices being either in all targets or none.  For example
>> CONFIG_ISA_TESTDEV cannot be removed from just
>> default-configs/ppc-softmmu.mak if you are building both a PPC and an
>> x86 target.

Anyway, I'm not opposed to merging this part, it's just that they may be
unnecessary in the future.  The virtio split is more interesting to me,
and I am very happy that you are doing it!

Paolo