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authorPalmer Dabbelt <palmer@rivosinc.com>2022-12-06 18:08:14 -0800
committerPalmer Dabbelt <palmer@rivosinc.com>2022-12-13 09:38:27 -0800
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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>
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@@ -20,9 +20,11 @@ Submit Checklist Addendum
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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