Commit 37b6b8d3 authored by Julius Werner's avatar Julius Werner
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docs: Update contribution guidelines for binary components



This patch updates the contribution guidelines to refer to the new
binary repository.

Change-Id: I898dc58973be91c3f87be53a755269fca2e93174
Signed-off-by: default avatarJulius Werner <jwerner@chromium.org>
parent 0e985d70
......@@ -107,6 +107,23 @@ Submitting Changes
`Maintainers`_ will ask you to create a new patch set to resolve the
problem.
Binary Components
-----------------
- Platforms may depend on binary components submitted to the `Trusted Firmware
binary repository`_ if they require code that the contributor is unable or
unwilling to open-source. This should be used as a rare exception.
- All binary components must follow the contribution guidelines (in particular
licensing rules) outlined in the `readme.rst <tf-binaries-readme_>`_ file of
the binary repository.
- Binary components must be restricted to only the specific functionality that
cannot be open-sourced and must be linked into a larger open-source platform
port. The majority of the platform port must still be implemented in open
source. Platform ports that are merely a thin wrapper around a binary
component that contains all the actual code will not be accepted.
- Only platform port code (i.e. in the ``plat/<vendor>`` directory) may rely on
binary components. Generic code must always be fully open-source.
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*Copyright (c) 2013-2019, Arm Limited and Contributors. All rights reserved.*
......@@ -128,3 +145,5 @@ Submitting Changes
.. _Gerrit Signed-off-by Lines guidelines: https://review.trustedfirmware.org/Documentation/user-signedoffby.html
.. _Gerrit Change-Ids documentation: https://review.trustedfirmware.org/Documentation/user-changeid.html
.. _TF-A Tests: https://git.trustedfirmware.org/TF-A/tf-a-tests.git/about/
.. _Trusted Firmware binary repository: https://review.trustedfirmware.org/admin/repos/tf-binaries
.. _tf-binaries-readme: https://git.trustedfirmware.org/tf-binaries.git/tree/readme.rst
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