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diff --git a/results/classifier/118/none/1826200 b/results/classifier/118/none/1826200 new file mode 100644 index 000000000..53f58a2bf --- /dev/null +++ b/results/classifier/118/none/1826200 @@ -0,0 +1,72 @@ +files: 0.663 +device: 0.554 +ppc: 0.441 +graphic: 0.382 +network: 0.358 +boot: 0.327 +socket: 0.323 +mistranslation: 0.317 +architecture: 0.306 +kernel: 0.298 +risc-v: 0.288 +register: 0.284 +vnc: 0.263 +semantic: 0.262 +performance: 0.259 +arm: 0.258 +hypervisor: 0.231 +PID: 0.222 +x86: 0.213 +VMM: 0.212 +permissions: 0.212 +i386: 0.203 +peripherals: 0.188 +virtual: 0.186 +user-level: 0.182 +KVM: 0.177 +TCG: 0.165 +debug: 0.152 +assembly: 0.123 + +RFE: populate "OEM Strings" (type 11) SMBIOS table strings from regular files + +The feature added in + + https://git.qemu.org/?p=qemu.git;a=commitdiff;h=2d6dcbf93fb01b4a7f45a93d276d4d74b16392dd + +and exposed by libvirt as + + https://libvirt.org/formatdomain.html#elementsSysinfo + +allows the user to specify up to 255 strings in the unofmatted area of the Type 11 SMBIOS table, where each string may be of arbitrary length. This feature is useful for exposing arbitrary text to arbitrary guest components (in particular when strings are prefixed with "application identifiers"). + +Right now, strings can only be specified on the QEMU command line, which limits the amount of data that can be passed. Please enable users to pass data from regular files too. + +For example: + + $QEMU -smbios type=11,value=Hello,txtfile=file1.txt,txtfile=file2.txt + +where "file1.txt" and "file2.txt" could be text files containing ASCII application prefixes, followed by base64-encoded binary data. + +See also: https://bugzilla.tianocore.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1747 + +See also: https://github.com/puiterwijk/qemu-ovmf-secureboot/issues/25 + +We'll probably never have resources for this -- nice to have feature, but has not become critical in ~1.5 years. LP doesn't allow me to close the ticket as "Won't Fix", so I'll have to go with "Invalid". (The report is not invalid at all, but the ticket status should *somehow* reflect that we have no resources for working on this.) + +Surprise... + +https://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/qemu-devel/2020-09/msg03023.html + +Discovering the firmware limits was tedious. SeaBIOS limits SMBIOS to 64KB total size due to support for SMBIOS 2.1 spec only, while EDK2 fails a little over 128 KB total size despite supporting SMBIOS 3.0 which should not be limited IIUC + +Merged: https://<email address hidden>/ + +Commits: + +https://gitlab.com/qemu-project/qemu/-/commit/bb99f4772f54017490e3356ecbb3df25c5d4537f +https://gitlab.com/qemu-project/qemu/-/commit/10c3666658f53c5ec8fd9ec27cdf5c393ff814a0 +https://gitlab.com/qemu-project/qemu/-/commit/48a7ff4d516c92323ca7bd88df90ebb974bc0a9a + +Released with QEMU v5.2.0. + |