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Re: [Qemu-devel] [PATCH v5 03/10] docs: VM Generation ID device descript
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Eric Blake |
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Re: [Qemu-devel] [PATCH v5 03/10] docs: VM Generation ID device description |
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Mon, 6 Feb 2017 14:18:36 -0600 |
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On 02/05/2017 03:11 AM, address@hidden wrote:
> From: Ben Warren <address@hidden>
>
> This patch is based off an earlier version by
> Gal Hammer (address@hidden)
>
> Requirements section, ASCII diagrams and overall help
> provided by Laszlo Ersek (address@hidden)
>
> Signed-off-by: Gal Hammer <address@hidden>
> Signed-off-by: Ben Warren <address@hidden>
> ---
> docs/specs/vmgenid.txt | 239
> +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++
> 1 file changed, 239 insertions(+)
> create mode 100644 docs/specs/vmgenid.txt
>
> +
> +
> +Design Details:
> +---------------
> +
> +Requirements R1a through R1e dicate that the memory holding the
s/dicate/dictate/
> +VM Generation ID must be allocated and owned by the guest operating system,
> +
> +GUID Storage Format:
> +--------------------
> +
> +In order to work with OVMF "SDT Header Probe Supressor", the contents of
s/Supressor/Suppressor/
> +the vmgenid fw_cfg blob are not simply a 128-bit GUID. There is also
> +significant padding in order to align and fill a memory page, as shown in the
> +following diagram:
> +
> ++----------------------------------+
> +| SSDT with OEM Table ID = VMGENID |
> ++----------------------------------+
> +| ... | TOP OF PAGE
> +| VGIA dword object ---------------|-----> +---------------------------+
> +| ... | | fw-allocated array for |
> +| _STA method referring to VGIA | | "etc/vmgenid" |
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Eric Blake eblake redhat com +1-919-301-3266
Libvirt virtualization library http://libvirt.org
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