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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 <[email protected]> Reviewed-by: Atish Patra <[email protected]> Reviewed-by: Anup Patel <[email protected]> Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/[email protected] Signed-off-by: Palmer Dabbelt <[email protected]>
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Documentation/riscv/patch-acceptance.rst

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We'll only accept patches for new modules or extensions if the
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specifications for those modules or extensions are listed as being
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"Frozen" or "Ratified" by the RISC-V Foundation. (Developers may, of
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course, maintain their own Linux kernel trees that contain code for
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any draft extensions that they wish.)
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unlikely to be incompatibly changed in the future. For
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specifications from the RISC-V foundation this means "Frozen" or
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"Ratified", for the UEFI forum specifications this means a published
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ECR. (Developers may, of course, maintain their own Linux kernel trees
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that contain code for any draft extensions that they wish.)
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Additionally, the RISC-V specification allows implementors to create
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their own custom extensions. These custom extensions aren't required

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