Paolo Bonzini <pbonz...@redhat.com> writes:

> On 5/3/23 11:12, Alex Bennée wrote:
>> From: Fabiano Rosas <faro...@suse.de>
>> The 'virt' machine uses virtio-net-pci as a fallback when no other
>> network driver has been selected via command line. Select VIRTIO_NET
>> and VIRTIO_PCI from CONFIG_ARM_VIRT to avoid errors when PCI_DEVICES=n
>> (due to e.g. --without-default-devices):
>> $ ./qemu-system-aarch64 -M virt -accel tcg -cpu max
>> qemu-system-aarch64: Unsupported NIC model: virtio-net-pci
>
> With respect to patches 5-17, very few devices need to be present when
> configuring --without-default-devices, and thus need to be "select"ed
> by Kconfig.  You should select a device only if you cannot even start
> the machine without --nodefaults.

Which is the case here right? We could skip tests that explicitly
instantiate a device but these are tests failing with default devices
the machine tries to instantiate.

> Anything else should be added by hand to configs/ if you use
> --nodefaults.  In particular, failures of "make check" when configured
> --without-default-devices are *test* bugs, not configuration bugs.
>
> I didn't check if _all_ of the patches in this set should be dropped,
> but most probably do.

-- 
Alex Bennée
Virtualisation Tech Lead @ Linaro

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