On 18/03/2021 18.28, Max Reitz wrote: [...]
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 ?
Thomas
