Re: [Qemu-devel] [PATCH v4 13/20] hw/acpi/aml-build: Add ToUUID macro

[Igor Mammedov <imammedo@redhat.com>]

On Fri, 10 Apr 2015 14:10:08 +0800
Shannon Zhao <zhaoshenglong@huawei.com> wrote:

> On 2015/4/9 21:22, Igor Mammedov wrote:
> > On Fri, 3 Apr 2015 18:03:45 +0800
> > Shannon Zhao <zhaoshenglong@huawei.com> wrote:
> > 
> >> > From: Shannon Zhao <shannon.zhao@linaro.org>
> >> > 
> >> > Add ToUUID macro, this is useful for generating PCIe ACPI table.
> >> > 
> >> > Signed-off-by: Shannon Zhao <zhaoshenglong@huawei.com>
> >> > Signed-off-by: Shannon Zhao <shannon.zhao@linaro.org>
> >> > ---
> >> >  hw/acpi/aml-build.c         | 23 +++++++++++++++++++++++
> >> >  include/hw/acpi/aml-build.h |  2 ++
> >> >  2 files changed, 25 insertions(+)
> >> > 
> >> > diff --git a/hw/acpi/aml-build.c b/hw/acpi/aml-build.c
> >> > index bd1713c..5a94fc9 100644
> >> > --- a/hw/acpi/aml-build.c
> >> > +++ b/hw/acpi/aml-build.c
> >> > @@ -933,6 +933,29 @@ Aml *aml_qword_memory(AmlDecode dec,
> >> > AmlMinFixed min_fixed, addr_trans, len, flags);
> >> >  }
> >> >  
> >> > +/*
> >> > + * ACPI 3.0: 17.5.124 ToUUID (Convert String to UUID Macro)
> >> > + * e.g. UUID: E5C937D0-3553-4d7a-9117-EA4D19C3434D
> >> > + * call aml_touuid(0xE5C937D0, 0x3553, 0x4d7a, 0x9117,
> >> > 0xEA4D19C3434D);
> > hmm,                  ^^^^ that's definitely no string
> > 
> Yes, the args are not string. When I implemented this function I
> thought about this. In order to make it simple, I use HEX here. If we
> have to use string, I could modify this.
I'd prefer stirngs as it's written in spec