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 <a...@ozlabs.ru> > >>--- > >> > >>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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