[Fault-injection-developer] Re: [Pcihpd-discuss] CPCI hotswap peripheral board simulator

[Stanley W. <sta...@li...>]

On Tue, 11 Mar 2003, Greg KH wrote:

> On Tue, Mar 11, 2003 at 04:22:40PM +0800, Stanley Wang wrote:
> > On Mon, 10 Mar 2003, Greg KH wrote:
> > 
> > > On Fri, Mar 07, 2003 at 12:05:45PM +0800, Stanley Wang wrote:
> > > > I've completed a mock e100 CPCI peripheral board based on FITH 
> > > > project(http://fault-injection.sourceforge.net/). It would intercept all 
> > > > pci config access and could be used to test CPCI hotswap driver without real 
> > > > hardware support.
> > > 
> > > You say, "Could be used".  Does that mean you have used it in such a
> > > manner?  And does that mean that other pci hotplug drivers could be
> > > tested with a modification of this framework?
> > Certainly. I could use it to trigger an insertion/extraction event at any time. 
> > You could also list this mock peripheral board by "lspci" after it was inserted.
> > I just implement the HotSwap part of the mock peripheral board, and you could 
> > let it be any device you want.
> 
> Ah, very nice.
> 
> > This simulator is based on FITH. FITH provides ability to intercept and 
> > inject faults into any PIO/MMIO access or IRQ handler. Hence we could emulate a 
> > real device easily by intercept serval PIO/MMIO/IRQ.
> 
> That's pretty cool.  We could create up some virtual USB controllers,
> which control virtual USB devices, to really beat on the USB stack for
> example, right?

Sure.
 
> Are there any groups writing these kinds of "fake device" drivers?
I think FITH's team may do this. FITH's team leader is Louis 
Zhuang(lou...@in...)

Best Regards,
Stan


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