[SeaBIOS] [PATCH] Add an IPMI SMBIOS entry

Corey Minyard tcminyard at gmail.com
Tue Jul 31 19:28:55 CEST 2012


On 07/31/2012 11:34 AM, Paolo Bonzini wrote:
> Il 31/07/2012 15:33, Corey Minyard ha scritto:
>> 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.
> Just format it as a sequence of SMBIOS structs.  For now you only
> support one entry with header.type = 38, in the future it could be
> extended to visit each header in turn.

I think something generic is more appropriate, this will probably 
eventually support other arches and the IPMI SMBIOS structure is a big 
hack.  The file interface was easy to use, anyway, and I'm ready to 
resubmit try two.

Thanks,

-corey



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