On 18/03/2021 18.28, Max Reitz wrote:
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From that it follows that I don’t see much use in testing specific
devices either. Say there’s a platform that provides both virtio-pci
and virtio-mmio, the default (say virtio-pci) is fine for the iotests.
I see little value in testing virtio-mmio as well. (Perhaps I’m
short-sighted, though.)
That's a fair point. But still, if someone compiled QEMU only with a
target that only provided virtio-mmio, the iotests should not fail when
running "make check".
To avoid that we continue playing whack-a-mole here in the future, maybe
it would be better to restrict the iotests to the "main" targets only,
e.g. modify check-block.sh so that the tests only run with x86, aarch64,
s390x and ppc64 ?