Re: [PATCH linux-evl 0/2] Add RISC-V support to EVL

Tobias Schaffner <[email protected]> Wed, 8 Jul 2026 07:17:10 +0200
Newsgroups dev.linux.lists.xenomai
Message-ID <[email protected]>
On 7/8/26 00:30, Florian Bezdeka wrote:
> On Fri, 2025-10-10 at 12:10 +0200, Tobias Schaffner wrote:
>> Hi all,
>>
>> this series introduces an initial EVL port for RISC-V.
>>
>> While some tests are still failing, I’d like to share this early
>> version with the community to gather feedback, reviews, and hopefully
>> some assistance in refining the port.
>>
>> The patches have been tested in combination with the Dovetail RISC-V
>> port on top of v6.12-evl1-rebase.
>>
>> Looking forward to your feedback and suggestions.
>>
> 
> I tried to apply this series today, and run into the following issues
> reported by my tooling.
> 
> Patch 1 is fine, patch 2 has some checkpatch findings.
> 
> A couple of debatable warnings like:
> 
> WARNING: Misplaced SPDX-License-Identifier tag - use line 1 instead
> #58: FILE: arch/riscv/include/uapi/asm/evl/fptest.h:2:
> + * SPDX-License-Identifier: GPL-2.0 WITH Linux-syscall-note
> 
> WARNING: unnecessary whitespace before a quoted newline
> #95: FILE: arch/riscv/include/uapi/asm/evl/fptest.h:34:
> +
> 
> In addition to a serious one:
> 
> ERROR: Missing Signed-off-by: line by nominal patch author 'shannmu
> <[email protected]>'

I did not get any responses from this email anymore. I can try to reach
out to him one last time, but what do we do about it if he will not
reply?

> My perspective: We definitely need that.
> 
> Best regards,
> Florian