From: Andrew Cooper <andrew.cooper3@citrix.com>
To: Dejan Markic <d@blrf.net>, xen-devel@lists.xen.org
Subject: Re: SMBIOS UUID
Date: Thu, 15 Dec 2016 16:07:36 +0000 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <9d513158-a37b-a6c5-8ff9-85a10f3dba0d@citrix.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <d1603aa3-f529-7a34-b62d-9d3e6cc6d8c0@blrf.net>
On 12/12/16 19:05, Dejan Markic wrote:
> Hello all,
>
> sorry, as this might be a stupid question for some of you, but I
> wonder why here:
>
> https://github.com/mirage/xen/blob/master/tools/firmware/hvmloader/smbios.c#L438
>
>
> You allow almost everything to be overwritten in SMBIOS type 1 table
> except the UUID.
Probably only because whomever implemented the code didn't need to do that.
> Would there be any problems if UUID was also picked up from xenstore
> with, for instance, HVM_XS_SYSTEM_UUID?
The UUID is currently picked up from the domain's UUID stored in Xen, so
is currently under toolstack control.
I don't see a particular problem with being able to specify it via
xenstore. What is your usecase here?
~Andrew
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Thread overview: 4+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2016-12-12 19:05 SMBIOS UUID Dejan Markic
2016-12-15 16:07 ` Andrew Cooper [this message]
2016-12-17 10:54 ` Dejan Markic
2016-12-17 16:24 ` Andrew Cooper
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