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 cminy...@mvista.com writes: On 08/02/2012 01:32 PM, Anthony Liguori wrote: Corey Minyard tcminy...@gmail.com writes: On 08/01/2012 09:40 PM, Anthony Liguori wrote: Corey Minyard cminy...@mvista.com writes: On 08/01/2012 08:15

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 cminy...@mvista.com 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

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

2012-08-02 Thread Anthony Liguori
Corey Minyard tcminy...@gmail.com writes: On 08/01/2012 09:40 PM, Anthony Liguori wrote: Corey Minyard cminy...@mvista.com 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 Corey Minyard
On 08/02/2012 01:32 PM, Anthony Liguori wrote: Corey Minyard tcminy...@gmail.com writes: On 08/01/2012 09:40 PM, Anthony Liguori wrote: Corey Minyard cminy...@mvista.com writes: On 08/01/2012 08:15 PM, Kevin O'Connor wrote: Well, I should also probably add the ACPI name space definition for

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

2012-08-02 Thread Anthony Liguori
Corey Minyard cminy...@mvista.com writes: On 08/02/2012 01:32 PM, Anthony Liguori wrote: Corey Minyard tcminy...@gmail.com writes: On 08/01/2012 09:40 PM, Anthony Liguori wrote: Corey Minyard cminy...@mvista.com writes: On 08/01/2012 08:15 PM, Kevin O'Connor wrote: Well, I should also

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 cminy...@mvista.com 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

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

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

2012-08-01 Thread Anthony Liguori
Corey Minyard cminy...@mvista.com 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

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 cminy...@mvista.com 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:

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 cminy...@mvista.com 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

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

2012-07-30 Thread Anthony Liguori
Corey Minyard cminy...@mvista.com writes: On 07/30/2012 10:37 AM, Anthony Liguori wrote: miny...@acm.org writes: From: Corey Minyard cminy...@mvista.com 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.

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 cminy...@mvista.com writes: On 07/30/2012 10:37 AM, Anthony Liguori wrote: miny...@acm.org writes: From: Corey Minyard cminy...@mvista.com There was no way to directly add a table entry to the SMBIOS table, even though the BIOS

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

2012-07-19 Thread minyard
From: Corey Minyard cminy...@mvista.com 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