On Mon, 2015-06-08 at 20:11 -0500, miny...@acm.org wrote: > I have reworked the QEMU IPMI patches, and I believe this design > improves greatly on the previous one. The suggestions made all > resulted in better design. To start an IPMI interface > with this, you would use: > > -device ipmi-bmc-sim,id=bmc0 -device isa-ipmi-bt,bmc=bmc0 > > Note that I did not make the BMCs objects. I started this way, but > adding properties was ending up duplicating a lot of code already > in the device core, especially for the chardev link. > > I'm not sure of the importance of having a BMC be an object instead > of a device, but it seems to me that if we do that, it would be > best to add helper functions to the object core for the chardev > and integer properties.
Out of curiosity, what's the outlook to have this merged ? I'm working on a "native" OpenPower (POWER8 based) model which could definitely make good use of that ! Cheers, Ben.
