Re: [Qemu-devel] [PATCH v3 00/16] Add an IPMI device to QEMU

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

On Mon, 2015-06-08 at 20:11 -0500, minyard@acm.org 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.