Re: [Qemu-devel] [PATCH 09/18] qdev: Add a pre-firmware init capability

2012-07-30 Thread Anthony Liguori
miny...@acm.org writes: > From: Corey Minyard > > Some devices may need to do some firmware-type initialization before > the firmware itself is initialized. For instance, any device that > adds SMBIOS table entries (like IPMI) will need to do that before > the BIOS is initialized. > > So add a l

Re: [Qemu-devel] [PATCH 09/18] qdev: Add a pre-firmware init capability

2012-07-30 Thread Corey Minyard
On 07/30/2012 09:36 AM, Andreas Färber wrote: Am 19.07.2012 20:53, schrieb miny...@acm.org: From: Corey Minyard Some devices may need to do some firmware-type initialization before the firmware itself is initialized. For instance, any device that adds SMBIOS table entries (like IPMI) will nee

Re: [Qemu-devel] [PATCH 09/18] qdev: Add a pre-firmware init capability

2012-07-30 Thread Andreas Färber
Am 19.07.2012 20:53, schrieb miny...@acm.org: > From: Corey Minyard > > Some devices may need to do some firmware-type initialization before > the firmware itself is initialized. For instance, any device that > adds SMBIOS table entries (like IPMI) will need to do that before > the BIOS is initi

[Qemu-devel] [PATCH 09/18] qdev: Add a pre-firmware init capability

2012-07-19 Thread minyard
From: Corey Minyard Some devices may need to do some firmware-type initialization before the firmware itself is initialized. For instance, any device that adds SMBIOS table entries (like IPMI) will need to do that before the BIOS is initialized. So add a list of devices that get initialized bef