Hi,
Resending after applying changes requested from Paolo, Igor and Michael.
Thanks,
Gal.
V16 - Remove the sysbus device and use directly a DeviceClass.
- Device is created with -device command line parameter
- Device have uuid and addr parameters.
- Support for 64-bit address.
- Shorten the ACPI device description.
V15 - Version is based on V7 ("fixed address") with new aml apis.
V13, V14 - Igor Mammedov's patches.
V12 - Fixed bios_linker_loader_add_pointer call parameters. Offset
should be relative to the table.
V11 - Add required missing files.
V10 - Fixed typos in docs and a few clarification.
V9 - Add a unit test.
- Rebased to version 2.2.
- Removed hex.generated the binary files from patch.
V8 - Add a device's description file.
- GUID is stored in fw cfg file and the guest writes the
physical address to the device (reduces vmexits).
V7 - Move the device's description back to the static SSDT table.
- The GUID is store in a "hard coded" physical address and not
in the ACPI table itself.
- ACPI notification is triggered when the GUID is changed.
V6 - include the pre-compiled ASL file
- remove an empty line at end of files.
V5 - Move device's description to SSDT table (dynamic).
V4 - Fix a typo in error message string.
- Move device's description from DSDT back to SSDT table.
V3 - Remove "-uuid" command line parameter.
- Move device's description from SSDT to DSDT table.
- Add new "vmgenid" sysbus device.
Gal Hammer (4):
docs: vm generation id device's description
acpi: add a vm_generation_id_changed method
i386: add a Virtual Machine Generation ID device
tests: add a unit test for the vmgenid device
default-configs/i386-softmmu.mak | 1 +
default-configs/x86_64-softmmu.mak | 1 +
docs/specs/vmgenid.txt | 33 +++++++++
hw/acpi/core.c | 8 ++
hw/acpi/ich9.c | 8 ++
hw/acpi/piix4.c | 8 ++
hw/i386/acpi-build.c | 32 ++++++++
hw/isa/lpc_ich9.c | 1 +
hw/misc/Makefile.objs | 1 +
hw/misc/vmgenid.c | 140 +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++
include/hw/acpi/acpi.h | 2 +
include/hw/acpi/acpi_dev_interface.h | 4 +
include/hw/acpi/ich9.h | 2 +
include/hw/i386/pc.h | 3 +
tests/Makefile | 2 +
tests/vmgenid-test.c | 44 +++++++++++
16 files changed, 290 insertions(+)
create mode 100644 docs/specs/vmgenid.txt
create mode 100644 hw/misc/vmgenid.c
create mode 100644 tests/vmgenid-test.c
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