These lines are generally out-of-date, incomplete and unnecessary. With
SPDX and git repository much more accurate and fine grained information
about licensing and authorship is available, hence let's drop the
per-file copyright notice. Of course, removing copyright lines of others
is problematic, hence this commit only removes my own lines and leaves
all others untouched. It might be nicer if sooner or later those could
go away too, making git the only and accurate source of authorship
information.
This part of the copyright blurb stems from the GPL use recommendations:
https://www.gnu.org/licenses/gpl-howto.en.html
The concept appears to originate in times where version control was per
file, instead of per tree, and was a way to glue the files together.
Ultimately, we nowadays don't live in that world anymore, and this
information is entirely useless anyway, as people are very welcome to
copy these files into any projects they like, and they shouldn't have to
change bits that are part of our copyright header for that.
hence, let's just get rid of this old cruft, and shorten our codebase a
bit.
Files which are installed as-is (any .service and other unit files, .conf
files, .policy files, etc), are left as is. My assumption is that SPDX
identifiers are not yet that well known, so it's better to retain the
extended header to avoid any doubt.
I also kept any copyright lines. We can probably remove them, but it'd nice to
obtain explicit acks from all involved authors before doing that.
RISC-V is an open source ISA in development since 2010 at UCB.
For more information, see https://riscv.org/
I am adding RISC-V support to Fedora:
https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Architectures/RISC-V
There are three major variants of the architecture (32-, 64- and
128-bit). The 128-bit variant is a paper exercise, but the other
two really exist in silicon. RISC-V is always little endian.
On Linux, the default kernel uname(2) can return "riscv" for all
variants. However a patch was added recently which makes the kernel
return one of "riscv32" or "riscv64" (or in future "riscv128"). So
systemd should be prepared to handle any of "riscv", "riscv32" or
"riscv64" (in future, "riscv128" but that is not included in the
current patch). If the kernel returns "riscv" then you need to use
the pointer size in order to know the real variant.
The Fedora/RISC-V kernel only ever returns "riscv64" since we're
only doing Fedora for 64 bit at the moment, and we've patched the
kernel so it doesn't return "riscv".
As well as the major bitsize variants, there are also architecture
extensions. However I'm trying to ensure that uname(2) does *not*
return any other information about those in utsname.machine, so that
we don't end up with "riscv64abcde" nonsense. Instead those
extensions will be exposed in /proc/cpuinfo similar to how flags
work in x86.
