Re: [Qemu-devel] [PATCH v4 00/17] Add an IPMI device to QEMU

[Benjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@kernel.crashing.org>]

On Thu, 2015-11-12 at 13:02 -0600, minyard@acm.org 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
>