Re: [Qemu-devel] QEMU IPMI support

[Corey Minyard <minyard@acm.org>]

On 04/04/2015 09:02 PM, Corey Minyard wrote:
> Ok, done.  It's at https://github.com/cminyard/qemu on github.  There
> are two branches at the moment, stable-2.2-ipmi is based on the 2.2
> release and will not rebase.  master-ipmi-rebase will rebase on master
> as it moves.
>
> I haven't done extensive testing yet, and it has a few experimental
> things, like an SMBus IPMI interface and an I2C mux device.  I need to
> split all that out at some point.  I also need to rework the ACPI
> handling to use the new code to build the ACPI tables.
>
> Copying qemu-devel so that group knows.
>
> Thanks,
>
> -corey
>
> On 04/03/2015 01:17 PM, Longever, Joseph wrote:
>> Hi Corey,
>>
>> Yes please,  setting up a git repo on git hub with IPMI support would be a tremendous help.   
>>
>> Thank you,
>>   Joel
>>
>> -----Original Message-----
>> From: Corey Minyard [mailto:tcminyard@gmail.com] On Behalf Of Corey Minyard
>> Sent: Friday, April 03, 2015 2:16 PM
>> To: Longever, Joseph
>> Subject: Re: QEMU IPMI support
>>
>> On 04/01/2015 07:23 AM, Longever, Joseph wrote:
>>> Hi Corey,
>>>
>>>  
>>>
>>> I noticed a lot of work you had done to add IPMI/BMC emulation to QEMU 
>>> ... great work!
>>>
>>> http://sourceforge.net/p/openipmi/mailman/openipmi-developer/thread/13
>>> 69865296-19584-1-git-send-email-minyard%40acm.org/#msg30911152
>>>
>>>
>>>  
>>>
>>> I was wondering if they were going to push those features into an
>>> official QEMU release?   To avoid porting the above patches over (not
>>> sure which commit it's based on,  1.5.0?),  would you have the patch 
>>> set to support the latest stable QEMU version?  I would like to use 
>>> OpenIPMI's lanserv to spawn a QEMU KVM with IPMI char device enabled, 
>>> however I think I need your patches to enable the device in QEMU.
>>>
>>>  
>>>
>>> Any suggestions or help is very much appreciated.
>>>
>>>  
>>>
>>> Thanks,
>>>
>>>   Joel   
>>>
>>>  
>>>
>> I'm not sure when I can get this pushed in.  It's really more up to the qemu maintainers, and they are pretty busy with bigger stuff.  Unless Redhat wants changes, which is how the qemu-char changes I needed for IPMI support got into the release.

As a note, that last comment was neither true nor fair.  I apologize for
this statement, and nobody should make disparaging remarks about the
maintainers that work so hard on this.

-corey

>>
>> I can set up a git repository on github.  Would that help?
>>
>> -corey