Re: [Qemu-devel] registering QEMU ACPI ID

[Michael S. Tsirkin]

On Tue, Jun 23, 2015 at 03:18:38PM +0100, Peter Maydell wrote:
> On 23 June 2015 at 15:07, Michael S. Tsirkin <address@hidden> 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

Yes, I'd like to register "QEMU" since we are already using it.
A bit less work for everyone involved.  It seems free at this point.

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