Peter Maydell <peter.mayd...@linaro.org> writes: > On Thu, 14 Mar 2024 at 12:11, Alex Bennée <alex.ben...@linaro.org> wrote: >> >> Marcin Juszkiewicz <marcin.juszkiew...@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 -- Alex Bennée Virtualisation Tech Lead @ Linaro
