[RFC PATCH 0/4] Remove some e300/MPC83xx evaluation platforms

[Crystal Wood]

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.

-Crystal