From: Peter Maydell <peter.maydell@linaro.org>
To: "Michael S. Tsirkin" <mst@redhat.com>
Cc: QEMU Developers <qemu-devel@nongnu.org>
Subject: Re: [Qemu-devel] registering QEMU ACPI ID
Date: Tue, 23 Jun 2015 15:18:38 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <CAFEAcA82Ahet=eKLR3AhOuTYez4ZO+Fe_rhGrYCxvWWc4HCWcw@mail.gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20150623155722-mutt-send-email-mst@redhat.com>
On 23 June 2015 at 15:07, Michael S. Tsirkin <mst@redhat.com> wrote:
> Hello!
> QEMU uses the ACPI Vendor ID "QEMU" in some of the ACPI tables
> it generates. This is a bit of a spec violation:
> all IDs must be registered with the ASWG.
>
> From the ASWG point of view, things are easier if a legal entity owns a
> vendor ID, so Red Hat could ask to own the ID on behalf of the
> community.
>
> I intend to ask the ASWG to register this ID for Red Hat 2 weeks from
> now, July 7th.
RedHat already officially "own" our PCI ID space (see
docs/specs/pci-ids.txt) so having them also deal with ACPI IDs
seems a reasonable plan to me.
Is the plan that we register "QEMU" as the vendor ID, or are the
ASWG likely to require a different ID string?
thanks
-- PMM
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2015-04-28 14:29 [Qemu-devel] register QEMU ACPI ID Michael S. Tsirkin
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[not found] ` <20150510115413-mutt-send-email-mst@redhat.com>
2015-05-10 18:52 ` [Qemu-devel] [aswg-chair] " Doran, Mark
2015-07-15 20:02 ` Michael S. Tsirkin
2015-06-23 14:07 ` [Qemu-devel] registering " Michael S. Tsirkin
2015-06-23 14:18 ` Peter Maydell [this message]
2015-06-23 14:22 ` Michael S. Tsirkin
2015-07-15 19:56 ` Michael S. Tsirkin
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