Re: [PATCH v2 2/4] tests/avocado: drop virtio-rng from sbsa-ref tests

[Alex Bennée]

Peter Maydell <peter.maydell@linaro.org> writes:

> On Thu, 14 Mar 2024 at 12:11, Alex Bennée <alex.bennee@linaro.org> wrote:
>>
>> Marcin Juszkiewicz <marcin.juszkiewicz@linaro.org> writes:
>>
>> > sbsa-ref is supposed to emulate real hardware so virtio-rng-pci
>> > does not fit here
>>
>> What is real anyway ;-)
>>
>> VirtIO devices exist in real life and I would argue for PCI the device
>> appears very much like a normal PCI device. I could see the argument for
>> avoiding virtio-mmio devices which are a lot more VM-only in flavour.
>
> But our platform for testing virtio-rng-pci should be the 'virt'
> board (and our avocado test for virt does indeed have that device).
> What exactly are we adding by testing it also in sbsa-ref,
> where the typical user will *not* be using it (if they wanted
> a virtio setup they would be using 'virt')?

I assume just ensuring the board has enough entropy to boot cleanly. If
it doesn't need it then it doesn't matter I guess.

>
> thanks
> -- PMM

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Alex Bennée
Virtualisation Tech Lead @ Linaro