[Qemu-devel] [PULL 0/2] Add a UUID device property to IPMI

[minyard@acm.org]

I believe we are not in softfreeze yet, and this is the only real
fix I have for IPMI at the moment.

This was posted Nov 2018 with little commentary.

The following changes since commit 474f3938d79ab36b9231c9ad3b5a9314c2aeacde:

  Merge remote-tracking branch 'remotes/amarkovic/tags/mips-queue-jun-21-2019' into staging (2019-06-21 15:40:50 +0100)

are available in the Git repository at:

  git://github.com/cminyard/qemu.git tags/ipmi-for-release-20190627

for you to fetch changes up to bddef5881d0c935a5d9d8e15f822d9d700666ae6:

  ipmi: Add a UUID device property (2019-06-26 15:31:33 -0500)

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Add a UUID device property to IPMI

This is fairly important for two reasons:

* It allows a BMC to be created with no UUID, returning an error, which
  is the behavior of many BMCs in the world.
* It lets the user set the UUID to a fixed value.

Some software using IPMI will get confused if it gets different UUIDs
from what should be the same device, which is what happens now if qemu
quits and restarts.

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Corey Minyard (2):
      qdev: Add a no default uuid property
      ipmi: Add a UUID device property

 hw/ipmi/ipmi_bmc_sim.c       | 22 ++++++++++++++--------
 include/hw/qdev-properties.h |  7 +++++++
 qemu-options.hx              | 10 +++++++---
 3 files changed, 28 insertions(+), 11 deletions(-)