From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:4830:134:3::10]:49874) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1VdhFl-0006rI-1b for qemu-devel@nongnu.org; Tue, 05 Nov 2013 09:05:14 -0500 Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1VdhFf-0002bT-Cv for qemu-devel@nongnu.org; Tue, 05 Nov 2013 09:05:08 -0500 Received: from mail-oa0-x22a.google.com ([2607:f8b0:4003:c02::22a]:33377) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1VdhFf-0002Yz-8a for qemu-devel@nongnu.org; Tue, 05 Nov 2013 09:05:03 -0500 Received: by mail-oa0-f42.google.com with SMTP id l6so583122oag.1 for ; Tue, 05 Nov 2013 06:05:02 -0800 (PST) Sender: Corey Minyard Message-ID: <5278FB0C.3020400@acm.org> Date: Tue, 05 Nov 2013 08:05:00 -0600 From: Corey Minyard MIME-Version: 1.0 References: <1369865296-19584-1-git-send-email-minyard@acm.org> <20131105135644.GA3692@redhat.com> In-Reply-To: <20131105135644.GA3692@redhat.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Subject: Re: [Qemu-devel] [PATCH 00/20] Add an IPMI device to QEMU Reply-To: minyard@acm.org List-Id: List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , To: "Michael S. Tsirkin" Cc: openipmi-developer@lists.sourceforge.net, qemu-devel@nongnu.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