From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:4830:134:3::10]:45795) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1Vdh4z-0005b0-JQ for qemu-devel@nongnu.org; Tue, 05 Nov 2013 08:54:06 -0500 Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1Vdh4u-0006mF-IA for qemu-devel@nongnu.org; Tue, 05 Nov 2013 08:54:01 -0500 Received: from mx1.redhat.com ([209.132.183.28]:24533) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1Vdh4u-0006lv-AN for qemu-devel@nongnu.org; Tue, 05 Nov 2013 08:53:56 -0500 Date: Tue, 5 Nov 2013 15:56:45 +0200 From: "Michael S. Tsirkin" Message-ID: <20131105135644.GA3692@redhat.com> References: <1369865296-19584-1-git-send-email-minyard@acm.org> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <1369865296-19584-1-git-send-email-minyard@acm.org> Subject: Re: [Qemu-devel] [PATCH 00/20] Add an IPMI device to QEMU List-Id: List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , To: minyard@acm.org Cc: openipmi-developer@lists.sourceforge.net, qemu-devel@nongnu.org On Wed, May 29, 2013 at 05:07:56PM -0500, minyard@acm.org wrote: > I have finally gotten some time to work on this, this series of > patches adds an IPMI interface to qemu. The changes are roughly: > > patches 01-05 - Add the capability to have a chardev reconnect if > the connections fails. This way, if using an external BMC, qemu > will detect the failure and periodically attempt to reconnect. > This also adds ways for the device code to get an event on a > disconnect and connect so it can handle it properly. This is > probably useful for things besides IPMI. There are also a few > small bugfixes in this. > > patches 06-14 - Add the IPMI device itself, with an ISA interface > for now (PCI and others can also be added easily). > > patches 15-18 - Add a way to dynamically add content to the ACPI > tables, and add the capability to add the IPMI information to the > table. > > Patches 19-20 - Add a way to dynamically add content to the SMBIOS > tables, and add an IPMI entry to the table. > I was pointed at these patches as an example of useful functionality that's out of qemu merely for lack of review resources. I'd like to help. Now that we have code to generate ACPI tables directly in qemu, this series can be rebased on top of that, with no need for new FW CFG entries or bios changes. If you have the time, pls Cc me on patches and I'll try to help shepherd them upstream. -- MST