[U-Boot] [PATCH 00/27] virtio: Introduce VirtIO driver support

[Bin Meng]

Hi Simon,

On Tue, Oct 2, 2018 at 7:22 PM Simon Glass <sjg at chromium.org> wrote:
>
> Hi,
>
> On 27 September 2018 at 15:19, Tuomas Tynkkynen <tuomas.tynkkynen at iki.fi> wrote:
> > Hi Simon,
> >
> > On 09/27/2018 04:43 PM, Simon Glass wrote:
> > ...
> >>
> >>
> >> How does this all get tested? Could we have a simple sandbox driver?
> >>
> >
> > We can switch the Travis-CI jobs for the QEMU boards to use virtio-net
> > instead of the current network cards for the TFTP tests. I don't know
> > if there are pytest equivalents for block devices.
>
> We do actually have sandbox block devices and can add anything that is
> needed. While qemu is helpful, I much prefer tests that run with 'make
> tests'.

I had a look at the testing on sandbox. It looks to me that we need
introduce a non-existent virtio transport sandbox emulator to support
this. I am not sure this is worth to do so. As Tuomas mentioned we can
setup travis-ci to test on qemu targets.

Regards,
Bin