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

Mark Brown
2014-09-17T17:03:54Z

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On Wed, Sep 17, 2014 at 04:58:10AM -0400, Jon Masters wrote:
> On 09/16/2014 09:44 PM, Matthew Garrett wrote:

> >> +http://www.uefi.org/sites/default/files/resources/_DSD-implementation-guide-toplevel.htm

> > How are individuals/companies who aren't UEFI members supposed to do
> > this? Aren't there IP issues involved in taking submissions from
> > non-members?

> Obviously, I'm not a lawyer, but I would note that the _DSD bindings
> aren't going into the core ACPI document. I think the specifics for non
> members of the UEFI to potentially contribute bindings need to be
> addressed. That said, at this point, the population of the UEFI forum is
> very well aligned with initial players (that this is the case is not
> entirely an accident, I went around to a few folks a year or so ago and
> made sure that they had become members in anticipation of this issue).

Are you sure you've covered all the vendors of off-SoC components who
might be involved? That's certainly already an issue with people doing
x86 machines (who aren't being bound by this spec but as a subsystem
maintainer how am I supposed to tell if the target is an ARM or x86
system?).

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