From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Michael Casadevall Subject: Re: [RFC v2] ARM VM System Specification Date: Tue, 01 Apr 2014 05:57:29 -0400 Message-ID: <533A8D89.9000500@linaro.org> References: <20140328184517.GA27219@cbox> <20140331172613.GA4756@lvm> <1396345749.8667.74.camel@kazak.uk.xensource.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Cc: Olof Johansson , cross-distro@lists.linaro.org, "linux-arm-kernel@lists.infradead.org" , "kvmarm@lists.cs.columbia.edu" , "kvm@vger.kernel.org" , xen-devel@lists.xen.org, Peter Maydell , "marc.zyngier@arm.com" , Rob Herring , Stefano Stabellini , Grant Likely To: Ian Campbell , Christoffer Dall Return-path: Received: from mail-qa0-f43.google.com ([209.85.216.43]:55385 "EHLO mail-qa0-f43.google.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1751077AbaDAJ5d (ORCPT ); Tue, 1 Apr 2014 05:57:33 -0400 Received: by mail-qa0-f43.google.com with SMTP id j15so9250484qaq.2 for ; Tue, 01 Apr 2014 02:57:32 -0700 (PDT) In-Reply-To: <1396345749.8667.74.camel@kazak.uk.xensource.com> Sender: kvm-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: -----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 On 04/01/2014 05:49 AM, Ian Campbell wrote: > On Mon, 2014-03-31 at 10:26 -0700, Christoffer Dall wrote: >> However, that may be a pain to update > > Very much, and there would be nothing worse than having multiple > divergent copies of the spec. > >> so the preferred method could be to host it in either its current >> form (clear-text) or publish some versioned PDF somewhere and >> simply point to it from the compliant software pieces. > > I think that would be best. > > I'm at a loss to suggest a suitable neutral home though I'm > afraid. > I agree with formal PDF (or TeX/plain text) releases + versioning; something I can print out and hit people with always works great for spec compliance. On the topic of hosting, if Linaro itself isn't neutral enough, what about under the Linux Foundation? They already host a bunch of standards like the FHS. Michael -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.14 (GNU/Linux) Comment: Using GnuPG with Thunderbird - http://www.enigmail.net/ iQEcBAEBAgAGBQJTOo2JAAoJEGKVRgSEnX1Qu+gH/ja+aqOqc04gbpFvuarHtzeM nLtJ1ie4JKOJTVqqQz+lgPhx+r3H9PrMFZnGvzs8H6GYSaU66i/SHKU150J1Ig5M 1w4DYqQj7DEClpoNmpPZVJJbevp70/wDH1wFSJZXJmxV9yOpMtrNZXwB60KANP2f MJDF+iDLIkv8vRPYQJEmuV4PMcJQs88X91eEb67jChX1ntMiiDAFSM6t2cRyfVG0 la4Ujk/p/u+Kr43wbhQITOKXZpWCtI8gjp7wTuZc+EDIhmufd5uiQ2VyTZaMkPkV xuX9871Y8VHGxCkAmhHPODbp3Wd4VUP2ewOYnTRYR2IIRpa4gNNLUa+MSdrL/sU= =2ub7 -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: michael.casadevall@linaro.org (Michael Casadevall) Date: Tue, 01 Apr 2014 05:57:29 -0400 Subject: [RFC v2] ARM VM System Specification In-Reply-To: <1396345749.8667.74.camel@kazak.uk.xensource.com> References: <20140328184517.GA27219@cbox> <20140331172613.GA4756@lvm> <1396345749.8667.74.camel@kazak.uk.xensource.com> Message-ID: <533A8D89.9000500@linaro.org> To: linux-arm-kernel@lists.infradead.org List-Id: linux-arm-kernel.lists.infradead.org -----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 On 04/01/2014 05:49 AM, Ian Campbell wrote: > On Mon, 2014-03-31 at 10:26 -0700, Christoffer Dall wrote: >> However, that may be a pain to update > > Very much, and there would be nothing worse than having multiple > divergent copies of the spec. > >> so the preferred method could be to host it in either its current >> form (clear-text) or publish some versioned PDF somewhere and >> simply point to it from the compliant software pieces. > > I think that would be best. > > I'm at a loss to suggest a suitable neutral home though I'm > afraid. > I agree with formal PDF (or TeX/plain text) releases + versioning; something I can print out and hit people with always works great for spec compliance. On the topic of hosting, if Linaro itself isn't neutral enough, what about under the Linux Foundation? They already host a bunch of standards like the FHS. Michael -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.14 (GNU/Linux) Comment: Using GnuPG with Thunderbird - http://www.enigmail.net/ iQEcBAEBAgAGBQJTOo2JAAoJEGKVRgSEnX1Qu+gH/ja+aqOqc04gbpFvuarHtzeM nLtJ1ie4JKOJTVqqQz+lgPhx+r3H9PrMFZnGvzs8H6GYSaU66i/SHKU150J1Ig5M 1w4DYqQj7DEClpoNmpPZVJJbevp70/wDH1wFSJZXJmxV9yOpMtrNZXwB60KANP2f MJDF+iDLIkv8vRPYQJEmuV4PMcJQs88X91eEb67jChX1ntMiiDAFSM6t2cRyfVG0 la4Ujk/p/u+Kr43wbhQITOKXZpWCtI8gjp7wTuZc+EDIhmufd5uiQ2VyTZaMkPkV xuX9871Y8VHGxCkAmhHPODbp3Wd4VUP2ewOYnTRYR2IIRpa4gNNLUa+MSdrL/sU= =2ub7 -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----