Re: [SeaBIOS] [PATCH v2] Add an IPMI SMBIOS entry

[Kevin O'Connor]

On Tue, Jul 31, 2012 at 12:30:36PM -0500, [e-mail] wrote:
> From: Corey Minyard
>
> An IPMI device is being added to the qemu code, and it has an
> SMBIOS entry to describe the interface characteristics.  So add
> the SMBIOS entry to the BIOS so it can handle this.

Hi,

This patch creates a binary ipmi_info struct with IPMI info, and then
modifies SeaBIOS to take that struct and translate it into a binary
smbios struct.  If the ultimate goal is to create an smbios struct,
then just create that and send it to SeaBIOS.  This has the added
benefit that there is no need to modify SeaBIOS as there is already a
mechanism to pass smbios tables via fw_cfg (see
qemu_cfg_smbios_load_external).

-Kevin