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

[Corey Minyard <tcminyard@gmail.com>]

On 07/16/2012 10:46 AM, Eric Blake wrote:
> 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.
>
Well, I wan't planning on it, I only did what I needed for IPMI. Adding 
a command line interface would be more learning that I can probably 
afford right now.

-corey