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Re: [Qemu-devel] [PATCH v4 00/17] Add an IPMI device to QEMU
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Benjamin Herrenschmidt |
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Re: [Qemu-devel] [PATCH v4 00/17] Add an IPMI device to QEMU |
Date: |
Mon, 16 Nov 2015 14:22:59 +1100 |
On Thu, 2015-11-12 at 13:02 -0600, address@hidden wrote:
> This is a long delayed patch set, but I think I have things reworked
> to make Igor happy with the way ACPI and SMBIOS work. This is more
> consistent with the way most other things work, anyway. It did
> require adding stubs for systems without IPMI.
Thanks Corey !
This looks like it's going to be very useful for the new OpenPower
model I have been working on.
Cheers,
Ben.
> The first nine patches are unchanged.
>
> The IPMI firmware configuration storage now holds the firmware
> information
> in a data structure and lets it be iterated.
>
> SMBIOS and ACPI build the tables with their existing building
> functions and call out to the IPMI one (or the stub) when the time
> comes. This required pulling some code out of smbios.c into an
> include file and making some things global, as IPMI has to be
> configurable.
>
> The BIOS table tests were also modified since the ACPI info is
> now in the existing SSDT.
>
> I've also added a force-off function for external BMCs; an external
> BMC needs a way to do a hard power-off of the system if the soft
> power offs fail.
>
> Thanks all!
>
> -corey
>
- [Qemu-devel] [PATCH v4 06/17] ipmi: Add a BT low-level interface, (continued)
[Qemu-devel] [PATCH v4 15/17] acpi: Add IPMI table entries, minyard, 2015/11/12
Re: [Qemu-devel] [PATCH v4 00/17] Add an IPMI device to QEMU, Cédric Le Goater, 2015/11/15
Re: [Qemu-devel] [PATCH v4 00/17] Add an IPMI device to QEMU,
Benjamin Herrenschmidt <=