Re: [Qemu-devel] [RFC PATCH 0/8] Add Generic PCI host device update

[Rob Herring]

On Fri, Jul 11, 2014 at 4:28 AM, Alvise Rigo
<address@hidden> wrote:
> The kernel version is a very recent one: v3.16.0-rc1.
> Maybe you are right. I will test some older version to see if I'm able
> to reproduce the issue.

BTW, the lsi driver has compile time option to use i/o or memory
accesses. I usually test both modes when doing PCI related changes.
Unfortunately, I don't recall whether the problem I saw was only for
one or both.

Rob

>
> Thank you,
> alvise
>
>
> Il 11/07/2014 11:09, Peter Maydell ha scritto:
>> On 11 July 2014 08:21, Alvise Rigo <address@hidden> wrote:
>>> This work has been tested attaching several PCI devices to the mach-virt
>>> platform.  The tested devices are: virtio-blk-pci, virtio-net-pci,
>>> lsi53c895a and pci-ohci (all attached at the same time).
>>> Even if the original work was not changed in its core functionalities, I
>>> couldn't reproduce the malfunctioning of the LSI SCSI mentioned in [1].
>>> After attaching several qcow2 images, formatting and filling them, I
>>> didn't notice anything wrong. Am I missing something?
>>
>> Interesting. Perhaps the bug was on the kernel side; which
>> guest kernel version are you using to test with?
>>
>> thanks
>> -- PMM
>>