Re: [Qemu-devel] [PATCH v2] arm: change vendor ID for virtio-mmio

[G Gregory]

On 30 July 2015 at 10:37, G Gregory <address@hidden> wrote:
> On 30 July 2015 at 10:24, Peter Maydell <address@hidden> wrote:
>> On 30 July 2015 at 09:04, Michael S. Tsirkin <address@hidden> wrote:
>>> On Thu, Jul 30, 2015 at 09:23:20AM +0800, Shannon Zhao wrote:
>>>>
>>>> Why do we drop the previous way using "QEMUXXXX"? Something I missed?
>>>
>>> So that guests that bind to this interface will work fine with non QEMU
>>> implementations of virtio-mmio.
>>
>> I don't understand this sentence. If there are pre-existing
>> non-QEMU virtio-mmio implementations, then they're using
>> LNRO0005, and we should use it too.
>
> The only one I have come across is the ARM FVP model, and it happens
> that I chose the ID and maintain the tables for that so I can change
> it.
>
In fact, I would just add

Name (_HID, "QEMUXXXX")
Name (_HID, "1AF4103F")

To the tables so tables work with old (internal) kernels and new!

Graeme