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2023-10-10docs: move riscv under archCosta Shulyupin
and fix all in-tree references. Architecture-specific documentation is being moved into Documentation/arch/ as a way of cleaning up the top-level documentation directory and making the docs hierarchy more closely match the source hierarchy. Signed-off-by: Costa Shulyupin <costa.shul@redhat.com> Reviewed-by: Conor Dooley <conor.dooley@microchip.com> Signed-off-by: Jonathan Corbet <corbet@lwn.net> Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20230930185354.3034118-1-costa.shul@redhat.com
2023-06-14Documentation: RISC-V: patch-acceptance: mention patchwork's roleConor Dooley
Palmer suggested at some point, not sure if it was in one of the weekly linux-riscv syncs, or a conversation at FOSDEM, that we should document the role of the automation running on our patchwork instance plays in patch acceptance. Add a short note to the patch-acceptance document to that end. Signed-off-by: Conor Dooley <conor.dooley@microchip.com> Reviewed-by: Björn Töpel <bjorn@rivosinc.com> Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20230606-rehab-monsoon-12c17bbe08e3@wendy Signed-off-by: Palmer Dabbelt <palmer@rivosinc.com>
2022-12-13Documentation: RISC-V: patch-acceptance: s/implementor/implementerPalmer Dabbelt
Implementor does appear to be a word, but it's not very common. Suggested-by: Conor Dooley <conor@kernel.org> Reviewed-by: Anup Patel <anup@brainfault.org> Reviewed-by: Conor Dooley <conor.dooley@microchip.com> Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20221207020815.16214-5-palmer@rivosinc.com Signed-off-by: Palmer Dabbelt <palmer@rivosinc.com>
2022-12-13Documentation: RISC-V: Mention the UEFI StandardsPalmer Dabbelt
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 <conor.dooley@microchip.com> Reviewed-by: Atish Patra <atishp@rivosinc.com> Reviewed-by: Anup Patel <anup@brainfault.org> Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20221207020815.16214-4-palmer@rivosinc.com Signed-off-by: Palmer Dabbelt <palmer@rivosinc.com>
2022-12-13Documentation: RISC-V: Allow patches for non-standard behaviorPalmer Dabbelt
The patch acceptance policy forbids accepting support for non-standard behavior. This policy was written in order to both steer implementers towards the standards and to avoid coupling the upstream kernel too tightly to vendor-specific features. Those were good goals, but in practice the policy just isn't working: every RISC-V system we have needs vendor-specific behavior in the kernel and we end up taking that support which violates the policy. That's confusing for contributors, which is the main reason we have a written policy in the first place. So let's just start taking code for vendor-defined behavior. Reviewed-by: Conor Dooley <conor.dooley@microchip.com> Reviewed-by: Anup Patel <anup@brainfault.org> Signed-off-by: Paul Walmsley <paul.walmsley@sifive.com> Link: https://lore.kernel.org/all/alpine.DEB.2.21.999.2211181027590.4480@utopia.booyaka.com/ [Palmer: merge in Paul's suggestions] Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20221207020815.16214-3-palmer@rivosinc.com Signed-off-by: Palmer Dabbelt <palmer@rivosinc.com>
2022-12-13Documentation: RISC-V: Fix a typo in patch-acceptancePalmer Dabbelt
I just stumbled on this when modifying the docs. Reviewed-by: Anup Patel <anup@brainfault.org> Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20221207020815.16214-2-palmer@rivosinc.com Signed-off-by: Palmer Dabbelt <palmer@rivosinc.com>
2020-01-04Documentation: riscv: add patch acceptance guidelinesPaul Walmsley
Formalize, in kernel documentation, the patch acceptance policy for arch/riscv. In summary, it states that as maintainers, we plan to only accept patches for new modules or extensions that have been frozen or ratified by the RISC-V Foundation. We've been following these guidelines for the past few months. In the meantime, we've received quite a bit of feedback that it would be helpful to have these guidelines formally documented. Based on a suggestion from Matthew Wilcox, we also add a link to this file to Documentation/process/index.rst, to make this document easier to find. The format of this document has also been changed to align to the format outlined in the maintainer entry profiles, in accordance with comments from Jon Corbet and Dan Williams. Signed-off-by: Paul Walmsley <paul.walmsley@sifive.com> Reviewed-by: Palmer Dabbelt <palmerdabbelt@google.com> Cc: Palmer Dabbelt <palmer@dabbelt.com> Cc: Albert Ou <aou@eecs.berkeley.edu> Cc: Krste Asanovic <krste@berkeley.edu> Cc: Andrew Waterman <waterman@eecs.berkeley.edu> Cc: Matthew Wilcox <willy@infradead.org> Cc: Dan Williams <dan.j.williams@intel.com> Cc: Jonathan Corbet <corbet@lwn.net>