From: Michal Privoznik <mprivozn@redhat.com>
To: Paolo Bonzini <pbonzini@redhat.com>, qemu-devel@nongnu.org
Cc: rth@twiddle.net
Subject: Re: [Qemu-devel] [PATCH 2/2] SMBIOS: Allow users to chose base board type
Date: Wed, 20 May 2015 14:09:41 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <555C7985.10703@redhat.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <555C52C9.3060602@redhat.com>
On 20.05.2015 11:24, Paolo Bonzini wrote:
>
>
> On 20/05/2015 11:15, Michal Privoznik wrote:
>> So far we only mistakenly claimed support for selecting base
>> board type. This patch finally implements it. There's an enum in
>> SMBIOS specification that lays out all the possible values.
>> Therefore, the type is taken as an integer of the corresponding
>> string value.
>>
>> Signed-off-by: Michal Privoznik <mprivozn@redhat.com>
>
> The possible values are:
>
> 01h Unknown
> 02h Other
> 03h Server Blade
> 04h Connectivity Switch
> 05h System Management Module
> 06h Processor Module
> 07h I/O Module
> 08h Memory Module
> 09h Daughter board
> 0Ah Motherboard (includes processor, memory, and I/O)
> 0Bh Processor/Memory Module
> 0Ch Processor/IO Module
> 0Dh Interconnect Board
>
> What is the usecase?
I've got this bug on me:
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1220527
It's request to implement Type 2 in libvirt. However, while implementing
that, I found out not all fields are supported in qemu. So I've posted a
patch.
Michal
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2015-05-20 12:09 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 8+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2015-05-20 9:15 [Qemu-devel] [PATCH 0/2] Couple of SMBIOS fixes Michal Privoznik
2015-05-20 9:15 ` [Qemu-devel] [PATCH 1/2] pc_init1: Don't misuse int for holding up a bool Michal Privoznik
2015-05-20 9:55 ` Paolo Bonzini
2015-05-20 12:30 ` Eduardo Habkost
2015-05-20 9:15 ` [Qemu-devel] [PATCH 2/2] SMBIOS: Allow users to chose base board type Michal Privoznik
2015-05-20 9:24 ` Paolo Bonzini
2015-05-20 12:09 ` Michal Privoznik [this message]
2015-05-20 14:16 ` Eric Blake
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