Re: [Qemu-devel] [PATCH RESEND 0/2 V2] Virtual Machine Generation ID

[Paolo Bonzini <pbonzini@redhat.com>]

Il 14/09/2014 08:25, Gal Hammer ha scritto:
> Hi,
> 
> A two parts patch to add a QEmu support for Microsoft's Virtual Machine
> Generation ID device.
> 
> The first one add a new ACPI directive which allow to use a 16-bytes
> buffer in an ACPI table. This buffer is for storing the VM's UUID.
> 
> The second is the ACPI tables changes and the actual device.
> 
> Your comment are welcomed.
> 
> Thanks,
> 
>     Gal.
> 
> V2: - Remove "-uuid" command line parameter.
>     - Move device's description from SSDT to DDST table.
>     - Add new "vmgenid" sysbus device.
> 
> Gal Hammer (2):
>   i386: Add an ACPI_EXTRACT_NAME_BUFFER16 directive.
>   i386: Add a Virtual Machine Generation ID device.
> 
>  default-configs/i386-softmmu.mak   |  1 +
>  default-configs/x86_64-softmmu.mak |  1 +
>  hw/i386/acpi-build.c               | 23 ++++++++++-
>  hw/i386/acpi-dsdt.dsl              | 37 +++++++++++++++++
>  hw/misc/Makefile.objs              |  1 +
>  hw/misc/vmgenid.c                  | 85 ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++
>  include/hw/i386/pc.h               |  3 ++
>  scripts/acpi_extract.py            | 23 +++++++----
>  8 files changed, 163 insertions(+), 11 deletions(-)
>  create mode 100644 hw/misc/vmgenid.c
> 

The idea is okay, but the device has to be added to the Q35 DSDT as
well.  If you just #included a file in the same style as
acpi-dsdt-hpet.dsl, you would have a namespace clash between the PIIX
and Q35 DSDTs.  acpi-dsdt-hpet.dsl can do it because it has no
ACPI_EXTRACT directives.

I think because of this, it is a bit simpler to add the device
optionally to the SSDT, similar to how the TPM is handled.

Paolo