Le 19/03/2021 à 10:20, Max Reitz a écrit : > On 19.03.21 07:32, Thomas Huth wrote: >> 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 ? > > Right, that would certainly be the simplest solution. >
The problem with that is we can't run the tests if target-list doesn't contain one of these targets. Thanks, Laurent
