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.