Re: [Qemu-ppc] [PATCH qemu] spapr: Add /system-id

[David Gibson]

On Wed, Nov 18, 2015 at 06:45:39PM +1100, Alexey Kardashevskiy wrote:
> On 11/09/2015 07:47 PM, David Gibson wrote:
> >On Mon, Nov 09, 2015 at 05:47:17PM +1100, Alexey Kardashevskiy wrote:
> >>Section B.6.2.1 Root Node Properties of PAPR specification defines
> >>a set of properties which shall be present in the device tree root,
> >>one of these properties is "system-id" which "should be unique across
> >>all systems and all manufacturers". Since UUID is meant to be unique,
> >>it makes sense to use it as "system-id".
> >>
> >>This adds "system-id" property to the device tree root when not empty.
> >>
> >>Signed-off-by: Alexey Kardashevskiy <address@hidden>
> >>---
> >>
> >>This might be expected by AIX so here is the patch.
> >>I am really not sure if it makes sense to initialize property when
> >>UUID is all zeroes as the requirement is "unique" and zero-uuid is
> >>not.
> >
> >Yeah, I think it would be better to omit system-id entirely when a
> >UUID hasn't been supplied.
> 
> 
> so this did not go anywhere yet, did it?

No.

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