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

Matthew Garrett
2014-09-22T20:31:56Z

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)

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