Re: [Qemu-devel] registering QEMU ACPI ID

[Peter Maydell]

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