On 23 June 2015 at 15:07, Michael S. Tsirkin <[email protected]> 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
