This set of patches adds an IPMI KCS or BT interface to qemu, along with a local simulated baseboard management controller (BMC) and a way to connect to an external BMC. It is mostly unchanged from previous release, except for bug fixes and the following changes:
The ACPI generation code custom to this was removed and it's now using the new aml-build code. Because of the previous change, capability was added to hook into the SSDT build process so that devices could insert their own table entries. Also because of this, and because Benjamin Herrenschmidt pointed out the need to have this on systems without SMBIOS and ACPI, that code has now been made optional. The SMBIOS uses TARGET_I386 to do this, which seems to be safe. The ACPI code required transfering the CONFIG_ACPI entry from the default configs to the target configs, in a new patch (patch 13). I'm not sure this was the best way, but adding a new file to do it got messy, and this seemed simple. Maybe there's a better way. Also, there's lots of config options for this, and I'm not sure they are really all necessary. Should there be just one CONFIG_IPMI that covers everything? Thanks, -corey
