Re: [Qemu-devel] QEMU IPMI support

From: Corey Minyard <minyard@acm.org>
To: "Longever, Joseph" <Joseph.Longever@emc.com>,
	qemu-devel <qemu-devel@nongnu.org>
Subject: Re: [Qemu-devel] QEMU IPMI support
Date: Sat, 04 Apr 2015 21:02:06 -0500	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <5520979E.2080208@acm.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <9C46C997A77C834C81ACBF2B3F67C31705657237D7@MX43A.corp.emc.com>

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:tcminyard@gmail.com] 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.
>
> I can set up a git repository on github.  Would that help?
>
> -corey