[SeaBIOS] [PATCH] Add an IPMI SMBIOS entry

Corey Minyard tcminyard at gmail.com
Tue Jul 31 15:33:53 CEST 2012


On 07/31/2012 02:10 AM, Gleb Natapov wrote:
>
>   
>   /* This CPUID returns the signature 'KVMKVMKVM' in ebx, ecx, and edx.  It
>    * should be used to determine that a VM is running under KVM.
> @@ -35,6 +36,13 @@ static inline int kvm_para_available(void)
>   #define QEMU_CFG_BOOT_MENU              0x0e
>   #define QEMU_CFG_MAX_CPUS               0x0f
>   #define QEMU_CFG_FILE_DIR               0x19
> +#define QEMU_CFG_IPMI_INTERFACE         0x30
> +#define QEMU_CFG_IPMI_BASE_ADDR         0x31
> +#define QEMU_CFG_IPMI_REG_SPACE         0x32
> +#define QEMU_CFG_IPMI_REG_SPACING       0x33
> +#define QEMU_CFG_IPMI_SLAVE_ADDR        0x34
> +#define QEMU_CFG_IPMI_IRQ               0x35
> +#define QEMU_CFG_IPMI_VERSION           0x36
> Better to add _one_ fw_cfg entry that contains all of the info. But I am
> sure Kevin will want this to be passed through file interface anyway.
>
>
I considered that, but that seems like a more brittle interface. New 
fields may need to be added in the future.  I'll look at the file 
interface, but I would think it would be best to have something that 
could be added to.

Thanks,

-corey




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