On Thu, 2015-11-12 at 13:02 -0600, miny...@acm.org wrote: > This is a long delayed patch set, but I think I have things reworked > to make Igor happy with the way ACPI and SMBIOS work. This is more > consistent with the way most other things work, anyway. It did > require adding stubs for systems without IPMI.
Thanks Corey ! This looks like it's going to be very useful for the new OpenPower model I have been working on. Cheers, Ben. > The first nine patches are unchanged. > > The IPMI firmware configuration storage now holds the firmware > information > in a data structure and lets it be iterated. > > SMBIOS and ACPI build the tables with their existing building > functions and call out to the IPMI one (or the stub) when the time > comes. This required pulling some code out of smbios.c into an > include file and making some things global, as IPMI has to be > configurable. > > The BIOS table tests were also modified since the ACPI info is > now in the existing SSDT. > > I've also added a force-off function for external BMCs; an external > BMC needs a way to do a hard power-off of the system if the soft > power offs fail. > > Thanks all! > > -corey >
