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

[Christophe Leroy]

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