ACPI Vendor ID Request

[Tom Rini]

On Sun, Jan 21, 2024 at 10:17:22AM -0500, Tom Rini wrote:
> On Sun, Jan 21, 2024 at 03:42:16PM +0100, Heinrich Schuchardt wrote:
> > Hello Tom,
> > 
> > as we have started to generate ACPI tables in U-Boot we should request an
> > ACPI vendor ID for the U-Boot project.
> > 
> > As described in https://uefi.org/PNP_ACPI_Registry this is done by sending a
> > mail to vid-request at uefi.org.
> > 
> > As the ID is meant to have 4 letters I suggest to use 'UBOO'.
> > 
> > https://uefi.org/ACPI_ID_List shows existing IDs. I don't know if the owner
> > must be a legal company (which probably needs to be member of the UEFI
> > forum) or we simply can have "Das U-Boot project" as owner.
> 
> I see from the list that Coreboot has "BOOT" so presumably we can
> request UBOO for the project, and I've done so now.

For the record, we've been granted the ID 'UBOO' now, officially.

-- 
Tom
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