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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>
Linux kernel
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There are several guides for kernel developers and users. These guides can
be rendered in a number of formats, like HTML and PDF. Please read
Documentation/admin-guide/README.rst first.
In order to build the documentation, use ``make htmldocs`` or
``make pdfdocs``. The formatted documentation can also be read online at:
https://www.kernel.org/doc/html/latest/
There are various text files in the Documentation/ subdirectory,
several of them using the Restructured Text markup notation.
Please read the Documentation/process/changes.rst file, as it contains the
requirements for building and running the kernel, and information about
the problems which may result by upgrading your kernel.