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Re: [Qemu-ppc] [Qemu-devel] [PATCH] hw/ppc/prep: Fix implicit creation o


From: Paolo Bonzini
Subject: Re: [Qemu-ppc] [Qemu-devel] [PATCH] hw/ppc/prep: Fix implicit creation of "-drive if=scsi" devices
Date: Thu, 8 Mar 2018 18:51:53 +0100
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On 08/03/2018 11:45, Peter Maydell wrote:
> On 8 March 2018 at 10:26, Thomas Huth <address@hidden> wrote:
>> The problem is rather that we still need more automatic regression tests
>> for stuff like this. I already have got something in mind for a new
>> qtest: If "mkisofs" or "genisoimage" is available, we could create a
>> boot CD-ROM automatically using the boot code from tests/boot-sector.c.
>> Then the test could try to boot from that CD-ROM to check whether
>> "--cdrom" is still working as expected. What do you think, does that
>> sound reasonable?
> 
> That's probably a good plan, though it wouldn't be able to cover
> boards like versatile/realview that can't boot from a cdrom.

We don't need to boot, we "only" need to have a qtest that sends an
INQUIRY command.  The code to bring up the LSI HBA can be copied from
SeaBIOS, what's missing is libqos ports for the various PCI bridges...

Paolo



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