University of New Hampshire InterOperability Laboratory – NVMe Interop Test Suite
UNH-IOL NVMe Testing Service 5 NVMe PCIe Interop Test Suite
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2016 May 19 (Version 6.0 r01)
David Woolf: Adopted new document numbering scheme. Removed test 1.4 ‘Multiple Devices on Bus’. Aligned
procedures across all tests to use 2 devices at once and test them simultaneously in parallel.
2016 May 24 (Version 6.0 r02)
David Woolf: Added FYI tags to tests that are not mandatory. Added Appendix F with link to UNH-IOL Interop
Test bed page, to help readers understand what hosts may be available for testing. Added Appendix G to outline
NVMe Integrators List Requirements.
2016 June 7 (Version 6.0 r03)
David Woolf: Added test “Dual Port Device with Multiple Namespaces”
2016 June 13 (Version 6.0 r04)
David Woolf: Edited Test Procedure for test 1.7. Moved comments on Dual Port Device test setup from the
Possible Problems section to the Test Setup section in tests 1.1, 1.2, 1.3, 1.4.
2016 June 16 (Version 6.0 r05)
David Woolf: Edited Test Procedure for Test 1.7 Procedure step 12a, to indicate that any values provided
regarding sector size and namespace size are provided as examples only. These values can be adjusted according to
device and driver support. Added complete version of Test 1.8.
2016 July 5 (Version 6.0 r06)
David Woolf: Edited Test Procedure for Test 1.2, and Appendix G, to allow, but not require, the use of multiple
LBA formats which are supported by the DUT. Added FYI step to Test 1.4, to check that IO is functional after the
hotplug event occurs.
2016 Jul y 5 (Version 6.0 r07)
David Woolf: Edited Test names to include Mandatory vs. FYI requirements. Updated Appendix G to be
consistent with how Mandatory vs. FYI requirements are indicated in the Conformance Test Suite.
2016 August 30 (Version 6.0)
David Woolf: Final version published to UNH-IOL site ahead of October 2016 NVMe Plugfest #6.
2016 October 24 (Version 6.1 r01)
David Woolf: Clarified test procedure in Appendix A. Reordered some appendices.
2017 February 21 (Version 7.0 r01)
David Woolf: Clarified test procedure in Test 1.4 Hotplug.
2017 March 8 (Version 7.0 r02)
David Woolf: Clarified test procedure in Test 1.5 Boot, for hosts that are not intended to boot from of NVMe
media.
2017 March 22 (Version 7.0)
David Woolf: Final version published to UNH-IOL site ahead of May 2017 NVMe Plugfest #7.
2017 August 28 (Version 8.0)
David Woolf:
• Clarified that test 1.4 is mandatory for U.2 devices.
