Re: [Qemu-devel] [PATCH v3 2/2] smbios: Set system manufacturer, product & version by default

["Michael S. Tsirkin" <mst@redhat.com>]

On Thu, Oct 31, 2013 at 06:54:37AM +0100, Markus Armbruster wrote:
> "Michael S. Tsirkin" <mst@redhat.com> writes:
> 
> > On Wed, Oct 30, 2013 at 01:56:40PM +0100, armbru@redhat.com wrote:
> >> From: Markus Armbruster <armbru@redhat.com>
> >> 
> >> Currently, we get SeaBIOS defaults: manufacturer Bochs, product Bochs,
> >> no version.  Best SeaBIOS can do, but we can provide better defaults:
> >> manufacturer QEMU, product & version taken from QEMUMachine desc and
> >> name.
> >> 
> >> Take care to do this only for new machine types, of course.
> >> 
> >> Signed-off-by: Markus Armbruster <armbru@redhat.com>
> >
> > I feel applying this one would be a mistake.
> >
> > Machine desc is for human readers.
> > For example, it currently says "Standard PC (Q35 + ICH9, 2009)"
> > but if we add a variant with IDE compatibility mode we will likely want to
> > tweak it to say "Standard PC (Q35 + ICH9/AHCI mode, 2009)"
> > and add another one saying ""Standard PC (Q35 + ICH9/compat mode,
> > 2009)".
> >
> > In other words we want the ability to tweak
> > description retroactively, and exposing it to guest will
> > break this ability.
> >
> > So we really need a new field not tied to the human description.
> 
> Can you live with the separation I just posted as PATCH 3/2?

Yes, I think that's a good way to do this.