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Re: [Qemu-devel] [PATCH 00/15] IPMI device for qemu
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Paolo Bonzini |
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Re: [Qemu-devel] [PATCH 00/15] IPMI device for qemu |
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Fri, 10 Apr 2015 13:48:33 +0200 |
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On 07/04/2015 21:51, address@hidden wrote:
> This set of patches adds an IPMI KCS or BT interface to qemu,
> along with a local simulated baseboard management controller (BMC)
> and a way to connect to an external BMC. It is mostly unchanged
> from previous release, except for bug fixes and the following
> changes:
>
> The ACPI generation code custom to this was removed and it's now
> using the new aml-build code.
>
> Because of the previous change, capability was added to hook into
> the SSDT build process so that devices could insert their own
> table entries.
>
> Also because of this, and because Benjamin Herrenschmidt pointed
> out the need to have this on systems without SMBIOS and ACPI, that
> code has now been made optional. The SMBIOS uses TARGET_I386 to
> do this, which seems to be safe. The ACPI code required
> transfering the CONFIG_ACPI entry from the default configs to the
> target configs, in a new patch (patch 13). I'm not sure this was
> the best way, but adding a new file to do it got messy, and this
> seemed simple. Maybe there's a better way.
I tried suggesting one in the reply to patch 13.
It requires splitting into three files (one for basic ISA IPMI, one for
SMBIOS, one for ACPI).
> Also, there's lots of config options for this, and I'm not sure they
> are really all necessary. Should there be just one CONFIG_IPMI that
> covers everything?
I think it doesn't hurt to have more flexibility.
I didn't receive patch 15.
Paolo
- Re: [Qemu-devel] [PATCH 14/15] acpi: Add hooks for adding things to the SSDT table, (continued)
- Re: [Qemu-devel] [PATCH 14/15] acpi: Add hooks for adding things to the SSDT table, Michael S. Tsirkin, 2015/04/12
- Re: [Qemu-devel] [PATCH 14/15] acpi: Add hooks for adding things to the SSDT table, Corey Minyard, 2015/04/12
- Re: [Qemu-devel] [PATCH 14/15] acpi: Add hooks for adding things to the SSDT table, Michael S. Tsirkin, 2015/04/13
- Re: [Qemu-devel] [PATCH 14/15] acpi: Add hooks for adding things to the SSDT table, Paolo Bonzini, 2015/04/13
- Re: [Qemu-devel] [PATCH 14/15] acpi: Add hooks for adding things to the SSDT table, Michael S. Tsirkin, 2015/04/13
- Re: [Qemu-devel] [PATCH 14/15] acpi: Add hooks for adding things to the SSDT table, Paolo Bonzini, 2015/04/13
- Re: [Qemu-devel] [PATCH 14/15] acpi: Add hooks for adding things to the SSDT table, Paolo Bonzini, 2015/04/13
- Re: [Qemu-devel] [PATCH 14/15] acpi: Add hooks for adding things to the SSDT table, Corey Minyard, 2015/04/13
- Re: [Qemu-devel] [PATCH 14/15] acpi: Add hooks for adding things to the SSDT table, Paolo Bonzini, 2015/04/13
[Qemu-devel] [PATCH 05/15] ipmi: Add a local BMC simulation, minyard, 2015/04/07
Re: [Qemu-devel] [PATCH 00/15] IPMI device for qemu,
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