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

Rafael J. Wysocki
2014-09-22T23:02:39Z

On Tuesday, September 23, 2014 06:34:42 AM Hanjun Guo wrote:
> On Sep 23, 2014, 06:28AM, Matthew Garrett wrote:
> > On Tue, Sep 23, 2014 at 12:46:24AM +0200, Rafael J. Wysocki wrote:
> >> On Monday, September 22, 2014 09:31:36 PM Matthew Garrett wrote:
> >>> 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?
> > The IP rules in the membership agreements.
>
> If I'm not mistaken, I think there is no IP issues for the _DSD bindings,
> it just some key value pairs.

Well, if we are talking about the bindings themselves only, then as I said
previously that would be a hosted document rather than a UEFI specification
anyway, so I don't see how the "IP rules in the membership agreements" would
apply to that in any case.

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Rafael J. Wysocki, Intel Open Source Technology Center.