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:tcminy...@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.
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