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

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On Monday, September 22, 2014 09:31:36 PM Matthew Garrett wrote:
> 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).

Why do you think so?

Linux Foundation can do that on behalf of the community if no one else.

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Rafael J. Wysocki, Intel Open Source Technology Center.
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