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

[Pali Rohár]

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 do not have mpc83xx HW.