linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH v4 18/18] Documentation: ACPI for ARM64

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Message-ID: <20140917015734.GD31214@srcf.ucam.org>
Date:	Wed, 17 Sep 2014 02:57:34 +0100
From:	Matthew Garrett <mjg59@...f.ucam.org>
To:	Hanjun Guo <hanjun.guo@...aro.org>
Cc:	Mark Rutland <mark.rutland@....com>, linaro-acpi@...ts.linaro.org,
	Catalin Marinas <catalin.marinas@....com>,
	Will Deacon <will.deacon@....com>,
	Lv Zheng <lv.zheng@...el.com>, Rob Herring <robh@...nel.org>,
	Lorenzo Pieralisi <Lorenzo.Pieralisi@....com>,
	Daniel Lezcano <daniel.lezcano@...aro.org>,
	Robert Moore <robert.moore@...el.com>,
	linux-acpi@...r.kernel.org, Grant Likely <grant.likely@...aro.org>,
	Liviu Dudau <Liviu.Dudau@....com>,
	Charles.Garcia-Tobin@....com, Robert Richter <rric@...nel.org>,
	Jason Cooper <jason@...edaemon.net>,
	Arnd Bergmann <arnd@...db.de>,
	Marc Zyngier <marc.zyngier@....com>,
	Jon Masters <jcm@...hat.com>, Mark Brown <broonie@...nel.org>,
	Bjorn Helgaas <bhelgaas@...gle.com>,
	linux-arm-kernel@...ts.infradead.org,
	Graeme Gregory <graeme.gregory@...aro.org>,
	Randy Dunlap <rdunlap@...radead.org>,
	"Rafael J. Wysocki" <rjw@...ysocki.net>,
	linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org, Sudeep Holla <Sudeep.Holla@....com>,
	Olof Johansson <olof@...om.net>
Subject: Re: [PATCH v4 18/18] Documentation: ACPI for ARM64

On Wed, Sep 17, 2014 at 02:44:10AM +0100, Matthew Garrett wrote:
> On Fri, Sep 12, 2014 at 10:00:16PM +0800, 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.
> 
> Similar question here. Is the expectation that all ARM vendors will 
> become UEFI contributors?

I should also add that this is inconsistent with how we've managed 
things in the x86 world - there's a great deal of ACPI functionality 
implemented that's not covered in the spec.

-- 
Matthew Garrett | mjg59@...f.ucam.org
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