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

From: [email-masked] (Matthew Garrett)
Date: Wed, 17 Sep 2014 02:57:34 +0100

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.

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Matthew Garrett | mjg59 at srcf.ucam.org