Re: [Qemu-devel] [RFC v2 6/6] Add C version of rtc-test

[Anthony Liguori]

On 12/02/2011 11:45 AM, Kevin Wolf wrote:
> Am 02.12.2011 18:26, schrieb Anthony Liguori:
> > On 12/02/2011 11:25 AM, Kevin Wolf wrote:
> > So that's how you read/write memory.  Likewise, for IRQs, you can poll the
> > status of a given IRQ.  I thought about doing some sort of signal magic around
> > but when writing tests, polling the IRQ seems easier to deal with.
>
> Okay, polling interrupts should be good enough for tests.
>
> I guess the test still needs to do everything that a guest OS would have
> to do, for example send an EOI to the PIC? We'll probably want to have a
> library for such things then, but we can add it with the first test that
> uses interrupts.

No, right now we more or less create a fake I/O APIC.  We don't have to deal 
with masking in the local APIC, boot strapping, or anything like that.

It makes writing tests easier but I think it makes supporting MSI a bit more 
challenging.  I'm not sure how well it will generalize to other platforms either.

That's one of the reasons I wanted to get an early version out to get some 
feedback on this.

Regards,

Anthony Liguori

> > > Should the framework and the tests live in the tests/ directory?
> >
> > Probably, except that tests/ has it's own Makefile which is sort of awkward.
> > Any objections to moving tests/* to tests/tcg-test and then moving all of the
> > various gtest/check tests to tests/ along with qtest?
>
> No objection, I think this is exactly what we should do.
>
> Kevin