Re: [Qemu-devel] [PATCH 01/16] smbios: Add a function to directly add an entry

[Eric Blake <eblake@redhat.com>]

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On 07/15/2012 02:24 PM, minyard@acm.org wrote:
> From: Corey Minyard <cminyard@mvista.com>
> 
> There was no way to directly add a table entry to the SMBIOS table,
> even though the BIOS supports this.  So add a function to do this.
> This is in preparation for the IPMI handler adding it's SMBIOS table
> entry.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Corey Minyard <cminyard@mvista.com>
> ---
>  hw/smbios.c |   27 +++++++++++++++++++++++++++
>  hw/smbios.h |   15 ++++++++-------
>  2 files changed, 35 insertions(+), 7 deletions(-)

Are you planning to expose this via the command line?  Libvirt would
like the ability to set arbitrary name/value pairs in SMBIOS (such as
asset tag in the type 3 page), rather than the current limitation of
only being able to set pre-defined names in just type 0 and 1 sections.

-- 
Eric Blake   eblake@redhat.com    +1-919-301-3266
Libvirt virtualization library http://libvirt.org


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