Re: [Qemu-devel] [PATCH 00/20] Add an IPMI device to QEMU

[Corey Minyard <minyard@acm.org>]

On 11/05/2013 07:56 AM, Michael S. Tsirkin wrote:
> 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.
>  
Ok, thanks.  I will make some time this week to get the patches updated
to the current git tree.

-corey