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| author | Palmer Dabbelt <palmer@rivosinc.com> | 2022-12-06 18:08:14 -0800 |
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| committer | Palmer Dabbelt <palmer@rivosinc.com> | 2022-12-13 09:38:27 -0800 |
| commit | 68eabc72023f2c1cdbf7932fde57a7811c65b414 (patch) | |
| tree | a1a871a2ec58ffb0cdab948fea1d671ac91eab51 /Documentation/riscv | |
| parent | 936100d4507f2e9f0be4621b0c698180d65e8264 (diff) | |
Documentation: RISC-V: Mention the UEFI Standards
The current patch acceptance policy requires that specifications are
approved by the RISC-V foundation, but we rely on external
specifications as well. This explicitly calls out the UEFI
specifications that we're starting to depend on.
Reviewed-by: Conor Dooley <conor.dooley@microchip.com>
Reviewed-by: Atish Patra <atishp@rivosinc.com>
Reviewed-by: Anup Patel <anup@brainfault.org>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20221207020815.16214-4-palmer@rivosinc.com
Signed-off-by: Palmer Dabbelt <palmer@rivosinc.com>
Diffstat (limited to 'Documentation/riscv')
| -rw-r--r-- | Documentation/riscv/patch-acceptance.rst | 8 |
1 files changed, 5 insertions, 3 deletions
diff --git a/Documentation/riscv/patch-acceptance.rst b/Documentation/riscv/patch-acceptance.rst index d9d628505cd8..389a45584386 100644 --- a/Documentation/riscv/patch-acceptance.rst +++ b/Documentation/riscv/patch-acceptance.rst @@ -20,9 +20,11 @@ Submit Checklist Addendum ------------------------- We'll only accept patches for new modules or extensions if the specifications for those modules or extensions are listed as being -"Frozen" or "Ratified" by the RISC-V Foundation. (Developers may, of -course, maintain their own Linux kernel trees that contain code for -any draft extensions that they wish.) +unlikely to be incompatibly changed in the future. For +specifications from the RISC-V foundation this means "Frozen" or +"Ratified", for the UEFI forum specifications this means a published +ECR. (Developers may, of course, maintain their own Linux kernel trees +that contain code for any draft extensions that they wish.) Additionally, the RISC-V specification allows implementors to create their own custom extensions. These custom extensions aren't required |