From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from [140.186.70.92] (port=45474 helo=eggs.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1OJK9m-00008r-GG for qemu-devel@nongnu.org; Tue, 01 Jun 2010 01:36:55 -0400 Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1OJK9l-0002uV-Cp for qemu-devel@nongnu.org; Tue, 01 Jun 2010 01:36:54 -0400 Received: from mx1.redhat.com ([209.132.183.28]:18824) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1OJK9l-0002uO-6b for qemu-devel@nongnu.org; Tue, 01 Jun 2010 01:36:53 -0400 Date: Tue, 1 Jun 2010 08:36:44 +0300 From: Gleb Natapov Message-ID: <20100601053644.GE24302@redhat.com> References: <4BFFE03F.40606@redhat.com> <20100528154402.GB3604@redhat.com> <4C0365F8.2070703@redhat.com> <20100531075030.GB22291@redhat.com> <019522D4DB3546ECB35EA6CC5D5FD069@FSCPC> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <019522D4DB3546ECB35EA6CC5D5FD069@FSCPC> Subject: [Qemu-devel] Re: [SeaBIOS] SMBIOS strings List-Id: qemu-devel.nongnu.org List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , To: Sebastian Herbszt Cc: Jes Sorensen , seabios@seabios.org, QEMU Developers On Mon, May 31, 2010 at 10:38:03PM +0200, Sebastian Herbszt wrote: > Gleb Natapov wrote: > >I don't care much as long as we will not have "CPU :". It looks like something > >that can change after BIOS upgrade, so it is hard to believe Windows > >will stop working because of this change. > > Maybe it could trigger the Windows activation process? > Who knows? But as I said it looks like something that can change after BIOS upgrade. If I were Microsoft I would rely on serial numbers for that (after moving kernel to Unix like one of course). -- Gleb.