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

On 08.07.26 07:17, Tobias Schaffner wrote:
> 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?
> 

If I read that patch correctly, it's majority is taken from the
corresponding Xenomai 3 logic. How much is unique contribution, how much
was your work, Tobias?

Jan

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

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