On Tue, Jun 23, 2015 at 03:18:38PM +0100, Peter Maydell wrote: > 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
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. -- MST
