On Sat, Mar 4, 2023 at 4:37 AM Pali Rohár <p...@kernel.org> wrote: > > On Saturday 04 March 2023 07:31:49 Christophe Leroy wrote: > > Le 03/03/2023 à 20:41, Crystal Wood a écrit : > > > On Fri, 2023-03-03 at 10:14 +0100, Arnd Bergmann wrote: > > >> On Fri, Mar 3, 2023, at 02:04, Paul Gortmaker wrote: > > >>> 01/03/2023 (Wed 14:23) Christophe Leroy wrote: > > >>>> Le 28/02/2023 ?? 18:51, Arnd Bergmann a ??crit??: > > >>>> Hope it clarifies how those reference boards are used. > > >>> > > >>> It was really useful input and gave an insight into how things get used. > > >>> > > >>> But let me put a slightly different slant on things. If there is no > > >>> maintainer for the platform/architecture/CPU, then where is the > > >>> obligation for mainline to keep it up to date just for your company to > > >>> use the code/BSP as a reference? > > >>> > > >>> Do they continue to do this for one more year, or three or ... ??? > > >>> Does someone list themselves in MAINTAINERS for arch/powerpc/83xx ? > > >> ... > > >>> > > >>> If you see change 0123abcdef breaks boot on your platform, you have a > > >>> legit voice to gripe about it right then and there. Don't wait!!! > > >> > > >> I think the answer here is that Christophe is already the only person > > >> that does this, so he is the de-facto maintainer for ppc32 regardless > > >> of whether he wants himself listed in the file or not: > > >> > > >> $ git log --no-merges --format="%an" v5.0.. > > >> arch/powerpc/platforms/[458e]* | > > >> sort | uniq -c | sort -rn | grep -vw 1 > > >> 61 Christophe Leroy > > >> 12 Michael Ellerman > > >> 11 Thomas Gleixner > > >> 11 Oliver O'Halloran > > >> 11 Liang He > > >> 7 Uwe Kleine-König > > >> 6 Nick Child > > >> 4 Rasmus Villemoes > > >> 4 Randy Dunlap > > >> 4 Mike Rapoport > > >> 4 Julia Lawall > > >> 4 Andy Shevchenko > > >> 3 Xiaoming Ni > > >> 3 Nicholas Piggin > > >> 3 Marc Zyngier > > >> 3 Christophe JAILLET > > >> 3 Christoph Hellwig > > >> 2 Paul Gortmaker > > >> 2 Mathieu Malaterre > > >> 2 Markus Elfring > > >> 2 Jordan Niethe > > >> 2 Dmitry Torokhov > > >> 2 Arnd Bergmann > > >> > > >> Pretty much everyone else on the list above only did treewide > > >> cleanups, dead code removal or compile-time fixes, while Christophe > > >> is the one that fixed machine specific bugs and added new features. > > > > > > Speaking of that, I'd be fine with Christophe replacing me in the "LINUX > > > FOR > > > POWERPC EMBEDDED PPC83XX AND PPC85XX" entry, given that he's been way more > > > involved than me lately. > > > > MPC83XX yes I can, I have MPC8321E Hardware, but PPC85XX I'm not sure. I > > don't know much more than what I can experiment with QEMU. > > > > Maybe Pali for MPC85XX ? > > > > Christophe > > I have P2020 SMP HW (mpc85xx platform) which I use on daily usage. So yes, I > can help. > > Martin Kennedy has other P1/P2 mpc85xx hardware and is working on Linux > support for it. So maybe can be interested in this discussion. I'm CCing.
I have mpc85xx hardware, mostly access points adapted from the P1020WLAN board, but I am frankly a hobbyist. I do my work under OpenWrt, and I have no relationship with the manufacturers of these devices. I only catch regressions on my boards when changes are backported to the LTS kernel OpenWrt uses (so, presently, 5.15). Martin
