[PATCH 3/4] Documentation: RISC-V: Mention the UEFI Standards

[Anup Patel]

On Thu, Oct 13, 2022 at 10:26 AM Palmer Dabbelt <palmer at rivosinc.com> wrote:
>
> From: Palmer Dabbelt <palmer at rivosinc.com>
>
> 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 at microchip.com>
> Reviewed-by: Atish Patra <atishp at rivosinc.com>
> Signed-off-by: Palmer Dabbelt <palmer at rivosinc.com>

Looks good to me from a KVM RISC-V perspective.

Reviewed-by: Anup Patel <anup at brainfault.org>

Regards,
Anup

> ---
>  Documentation/riscv/patch-acceptance.rst | 8 +++++---
>  1 file changed, 5 insertions(+), 3 deletions(-)
>
> diff --git a/Documentation/riscv/patch-acceptance.rst b/Documentation/riscv/patch-acceptance.rst
> index 0a6199233ede..9fed6b318b49 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
> --
> 2.38.0
>
>
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