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Re: [Qemu-devel] QEMU IPMI support
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Corey Minyard |
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Re: [Qemu-devel] QEMU IPMI support |
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Tue, 07 Apr 2015 07:31:16 -0500 |
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On 04/04/2015 09:02 PM, Corey Minyard wrote:
> Ok, done. It's at https://github.com/cminyard/qemu on github. There
> are two branches at the moment, stable-2.2-ipmi is based on the 2.2
> release and will not rebase. master-ipmi-rebase will rebase on master
> as it moves.
>
> I haven't done extensive testing yet, and it has a few experimental
> things, like an SMBus IPMI interface and an I2C mux device. I need to
> split all that out at some point. I also need to rework the ACPI
> handling to use the new code to build the ACPI tables.
>
> Copying qemu-devel so that group knows.
>
> Thanks,
>
> -corey
>
> On 04/03/2015 01:17 PM, Longever, Joseph wrote:
>> Hi Corey,
>>
>> Yes please, setting up a git repo on git hub with IPMI support would be a
>> tremendous help.
>>
>> Thank you,
>> Joel
>>
>> -----Original Message-----
>> From: Corey Minyard [mailto:address@hidden On Behalf Of Corey Minyard
>> Sent: Friday, April 03, 2015 2:16 PM
>> To: Longever, Joseph
>> Subject: Re: QEMU IPMI support
>>
>> On 04/01/2015 07:23 AM, Longever, Joseph wrote:
>>> Hi Corey,
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>> I noticed a lot of work you had done to add IPMI/BMC emulation to QEMU
>>> ... great work!
>>>
>>> http://sourceforge.net/p/openipmi/mailman/openipmi-developer/thread/13
>>> 69865296-19584-1-git-send-email-minyard%40acm.org/#msg30911152
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>> I was wondering if they were going to push those features into an
>>> official QEMU release? To avoid porting the above patches over (not
>>> sure which commit it's based on, 1.5.0?), would you have the patch
>>> set to support the latest stable QEMU version? I would like to use
>>> OpenIPMI's lanserv to spawn a QEMU KVM with IPMI char device enabled,
>>> however I think I need your patches to enable the device in QEMU.
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>> Any suggestions or help is very much appreciated.
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>> Thanks,
>>>
>>> Joel
>>>
>>>
>>>
>> I'm not sure when I can get this pushed in. It's really more up to the qemu
>> maintainers, and they are pretty busy with bigger stuff. Unless Redhat
>> wants changes, which is how the qemu-char changes I needed for IPMI support
>> got into the release.
As a note, that last comment was neither true nor fair. I apologize for
this statement, and nobody should make disparaging remarks about the
maintainers that work so hard on this.
-corey
>>
>> I can set up a git repository on github. Would that help?
>>
>> -corey