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Subject: Re: [Qemu-devel] [Qemu-ppc] [PATCH qemu] spapr: Add /system-id
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To: David Gibson <david@gibson.dropbear.id.au>, Alexey Kardashevskiy <aik@ozlabs.ru>
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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