Messages in this thread | | | Date | Mon, 22 Sep 2014 21:31:36 +0100 | From | Matthew Garrett <> | Subject | Re: [PATCH v4 18/18] Documentation: ACPI for ARM64 |
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On Mon, Sep 22, 2014 at 09:48:41PM +0200, Pavel Machek wrote: > On Fri 2014-09-12 22:00:16, Hanjun Guo wrote: > > +No code shall be accepted into the kernel unless it complies with the released > > +standards from UEFI ASWG. If there are features missing from ACPI to make it > > +function on a platform, ECRs should be submitted to ASWG and go through the > > +approval process. > > Surely this should be narrowed down somehow? Or is reading all the > released standards from ASWG mandatory before patching the kernel now? > > Spelling out wtf ECR is would be nice, too.
Explicit Change Request. These can only be filed by paid-up members of the UEFI Forum, so I suspect this requirement is going to be unworkable (there's plenty of ACPI support code for large x86 vendors which isn't part of any ACPI spec)
-- Matthew Garrett | mjg59@srcf.ucam.org
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