On 11/05/2013 07:56 AM, Michael S. Tsirkin wrote: > On Wed, May 29, 2013 at 05:07:56PM -0500, miny...@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
