From: Alexander Graf <agraf@suse.de>
To: David Gibson <david@gibson.dropbear.id.au>,
Alexey Kardashevskiy <aik@ozlabs.ru>
Cc: qemu-ppc@nongnu.org, qemu-devel@nongnu.org
Subject: Re: [Qemu-devel] [Qemu-ppc] [PATCH qemu] spapr: Add /system-id
Date: Wed, 25 Nov 2015 16:15:01 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <5655D075.9020609@suse.de> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20151118104927.GA3298@voom.fritz.box>
On 18.11.15 11:49, David Gibson wrote:
> On Wed, Nov 18, 2015 at 06:45:39PM +1100, Alexey Kardashevskiy wrote:
>> On 11/09/2015 07:47 PM, David Gibson wrote:
>>> On Mon, Nov 09, 2015 at 05:47:17PM +1100, Alexey Kardashevskiy wrote:
>>>> Section B.6.2.1 Root Node Properties of PAPR specification defines
>>>> a set of properties which shall be present in the device tree root,
>>>> one of these properties is "system-id" which "should be unique across
>>>> all systems and all manufacturers". Since UUID is meant to be unique,
>>>> it makes sense to use it as "system-id".
>>>>
>>>> This adds "system-id" property to the device tree root when not empty.
>>>>
>>>> Signed-off-by: Alexey Kardashevskiy <aik@ozlabs.ru>
>>>> ---
>>>>
>>>> This might be expected by AIX so here is the patch.
>>>> I am really not sure if it makes sense to initialize property when
>>>> UUID is all zeroes as the requirement is "unique" and zero-uuid is
>>>> not.
>>>
>>> Yeah, I think it would be better to omit system-id entirely when a
>>> UUID hasn't been supplied.
>>
>>
>> so this did not go anywhere yet, did it?
>
> No.
So where is it stuck?
Alex
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2015-11-25 15:15 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 9+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2015-11-09 6:47 [Qemu-devel] [PATCH qemu] spapr: Add /system-id Alexey Kardashevskiy
2015-11-09 8:47 ` David Gibson
2015-11-18 7:45 ` Alexey Kardashevskiy
2015-11-18 10:49 ` David Gibson
2015-11-25 15:15 ` Alexander Graf [this message]
2015-11-26 0:49 ` [Qemu-devel] [Qemu-ppc] " David Gibson
2015-11-26 4:29 ` Alexey Kardashevskiy
2015-11-26 11:04 ` Greg Kurz
2015-11-26 23:46 ` David Gibson
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