Doc: add a section describing target platforms
Extend the documentation with pages describing what is a target
platform, supported categories, deprecation process, etc...
Change-Id: I92c2ddd84a0387474d09ca0843d2c92c01106884
Signed-off-by: Gyorgy Szing <Gyorgy.Szing@arm.com>
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security/index
deployments/index
certification/index
+ target-platforms/index
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+Target Platforms
+================
+
+Target platforms are emulated or physically implemented hardware. This chapter discusses platform
+related information.
+
+Platforms can be categorized by level of support as:
+
+ - Reference platforms
+ Reference platforms are "easily" accessible for testing and quality gate-keeping of the main
+ branch includes tests executed on these platforms.
+
+ - Active
+ Platforms in this category are updated and tested by their owners for each release.
+
+ - Obsolete
+ Platforms which are not tested for the current release are put into this category.
+
+ - Deprecated Platforms not tested for more than one two are threated as obsolete, and will be
+ removed for the next release.
+
+The quality of the platform, known issues, feature limitations, extra features, etc... are defined
+in the sub-chapters below.
+
+
+
+
+
+
+
+--------------
+
+*Copyright (c) 2022, Arm Limited and Contributors. All rights reserved.*
+
+SPDX-License-Identifier: BSD-3-Clause