Re: [Qemu-devel] [PATCH 01/18] smbios: Add a function to directly add an entry

2012-08-06 Thread Corey Minyard
On 08/02/2012 04:05 PM, Anthony Liguori wrote: Corey Minyard writes: On 08/02/2012 01:32 PM, Anthony Liguori wrote: Corey Minyard writes: On 08/01/2012 09:40 PM, Anthony Liguori wrote: Corey Minyard writes: On 08/01/2012 08:15 PM, Kevin O'Connor wrote: Well, I should also probably add

Re: [Qemu-devel] [PATCH 01/18] smbios: Add a function to directly add an entry

2012-08-02 Thread Anthony Liguori
Corey Minyard writes: > On 08/02/2012 01:32 PM, Anthony Liguori wrote: >> Corey Minyard writes: >> >>> On 08/01/2012 09:40 PM, Anthony Liguori wrote: Corey Minyard writes: > On 08/01/2012 08:15 PM, Kevin O'Connor wrote: > Well, I should also probably add the ACPI name space de

Re: [Qemu-devel] [PATCH 01/18] smbios: Add a function to directly add an entry

2012-08-02 Thread Corey Minyard
On 08/02/2012 01:32 PM, Anthony Liguori wrote: Corey Minyard writes: On 08/01/2012 09:40 PM, Anthony Liguori wrote: Corey Minyard writes: On 08/01/2012 08:15 PM, Kevin O'Connor wrote: Well, I should also probably add the ACPI name space definition for this information, too, and the SMBIOS

Re: [Qemu-devel] [PATCH 01/18] smbios: Add a function to directly add an entry

2012-08-02 Thread Anthony Liguori
Corey Minyard writes: > On 08/01/2012 09:40 PM, Anthony Liguori wrote: >> Corey Minyard writes: >> >>> On 08/01/2012 08:15 PM, Kevin O'Connor wrote: >>> Well, I should also probably add the ACPI name space definition for this >>> information, too, and the SMBIOS information is not capable of pas

Re: [Qemu-devel] [PATCH 01/18] smbios: Add a function to directly add an entry

2012-08-02 Thread Corey Minyard
On 08/01/2012 09:40 PM, Anthony Liguori wrote: Corey Minyard writes: On 08/01/2012 08:15 PM, Kevin O'Connor wrote: Well, I should also probably add the ACPI name space definition for this information, too, and the SMBIOS information is not capable of passing all the information required for th

Re: [Qemu-devel] [PATCH 01/18] smbios: Add a function to directly add an entry

2012-08-01 Thread Anthony Liguori
Corey Minyard writes: > On 08/01/2012 08:15 PM, Kevin O'Connor wrote: >> >> This approach, unfortunately, leads to extra code and "double >> handling" of infomation. >> >> The ultimate consumer of the data wants a binary struct which looks >> like: >> >> struct smbios_type_38 { >> struct smb

Re: [Qemu-devel] [PATCH 01/18] smbios: Add a function to directly add an entry

2012-08-01 Thread Corey Minyard
On 08/01/2012 08:15 PM, Kevin O'Connor wrote: This approach, unfortunately, leads to extra code and "double handling" of infomation. The ultimate consumer of the data wants a binary struct which looks like: struct smbios_type_38 { struct smbios_structure_header header; u8 interface_t

Re: [Qemu-devel] [PATCH 01/18] smbios: Add a function to directly add an entry

2012-08-01 Thread Kevin O'Connor
On Mon, Jul 30, 2012 at 12:25:16PM -0500, Anthony Liguori wrote: > Corey Minyard writes: > > On 07/30/2012 10:37 AM, Anthony Liguori wrote: > >> miny...@acm.org writes: > >>> There was no way to directly add a table entry to the SMBIOS table, > >>> even though the BIOS supports this. So add a fun

Re: [Qemu-devel] [PATCH 01/18] smbios: Add a function to directly add an entry

2012-07-30 Thread Corey Minyard
On 07/30/2012 12:25 PM, Anthony Liguori wrote: Corey Minyard writes: On 07/30/2012 10:37 AM, Anthony Liguori wrote: miny...@acm.org writes: From: Corey Minyard There was no way to directly add a table entry to the SMBIOS table, even though the BIOS supports this. So add a function to do

Re: [Qemu-devel] [PATCH 01/18] smbios: Add a function to directly add an entry

2012-07-30 Thread Anthony Liguori
Corey Minyard writes: > On 07/30/2012 10:37 AM, Anthony Liguori wrote: >> miny...@acm.org writes: >> >>> From: Corey Minyard >>> >>> There was no way to directly add a table entry to the SMBIOS table, >>> even though the BIOS supports this. So add a function to do this. >>> This is in preparati

Re: [Qemu-devel] [PATCH 01/18] smbios: Add a function to directly add an entry

2012-07-30 Thread Corey Minyard
On 07/30/2012 10:37 AM, Anthony Liguori wrote: miny...@acm.org writes: From: Corey Minyard There was no way to directly add a table entry to the SMBIOS table, even though the BIOS supports this. So add a function to do this. This is in preparation for the IPMI handler adding it's SMBIOS tabl

Re: [Qemu-devel] [PATCH 01/18] smbios: Add a function to directly add an entry

2012-07-30 Thread Anthony Liguori
miny...@acm.org writes: > From: Corey Minyard > > There was no way to directly add a table entry to the SMBIOS table, > even though the BIOS supports this. So add a function to do this. > This is in preparation for the IPMI handler adding it's SMBIOS table > entry. > > Signed-off-by: Corey Minya

[Qemu-devel] [PATCH 01/18] smbios: Add a function to directly add an entry

2012-07-19 Thread minyard
From: Corey Minyard There was no way to directly add a table entry to the SMBIOS table, even though the BIOS supports this. So add a function to do this. This is in preparation for the IPMI handler adding it's SMBIOS table entry. Signed-off-by: Corey Minyard --- hw/smbios.c | 27 +++