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Re: [Qemu-devel] [PATCH v3 00/16] Add an IPMI device to QEMU
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Benjamin Herrenschmidt |
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Re: [Qemu-devel] [PATCH v3 00/16] Add an IPMI device to QEMU |
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Fri, 03 Jul 2015 10:30:34 +1000 |
On Mon, 2015-06-08 at 20:11 -0500, address@hidden wrote:
> I have reworked the QEMU IPMI patches, and I believe this design
> improves greatly on the previous one. The suggestions made all
> resulted in better design. To start an IPMI interface
> with this, you would use:
>
> -device ipmi-bmc-sim,id=bmc0 -device isa-ipmi-bt,bmc=bmc0
>
> Note that I did not make the BMCs objects. I started this way, but
> adding properties was ending up duplicating a lot of code already
> in the device core, especially for the chardev link.
>
> I'm not sure of the importance of having a BMC be an object instead
> of a device, but it seems to me that if we do that, it would be
> best to add helper functions to the object core for the chardev
> and integer properties.
Out of curiosity, what's the outlook to have this merged ? I'm working
on a "native" OpenPower (POWER8 based) model which could definitely
make good use of that !
Cheers,
Ben.
- Re: [Qemu-devel] [PATCH v3 00/16] Add an IPMI device to QEMU,
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