On Tue, Feb 24, 2026 at 07:56:21PM +0100, Quentin Schulz wrote:
> Hi Alexey,
> 
> On 2/11/26 9:22 AM, Alexey Charkov wrote:
> > Hi Jonas,
> > 
> > On Thu, Jan 8, 2026 at 5:36 PM Jonas Karlman <[email protected]> wrote:
> > > 
> > > The firewall block access to pmu sram for non-secure masters by default
> > > after reset (0xffffbfff).
> > > 
> > > Change the pmu lookup configuration to match the default lookup config
> > > for ddr and system sram (0xffff3fff) to allow loading TF-A using DMA.
> > > 
> > > Mainline TF-A will re-configure the firewall to use an even less
> > > restrictive lookup (0xbffe3ff0), so this change is not expected to have
> > > any real security implication.
> > > 
> > > Signed-off-by: Jonas Karlman <[email protected]>
> > > ---
> > >   arch/arm/mach-rockchip/rk3576/rk3576.c | 6 ++++++
> > >   1 file changed, 6 insertions(+)
> > 
> > As mentioned earlier in the other thread, this also helps fully load
> > ATF and U-boot from UFS storage without resorting to bounce buffers or
> > anything like that, so thanks a lot!
> > 
> > Tested-by: Alexey Charkov <[email protected]> # UFS
> > 
> > I wonder what's the fate of this series going forward? It would be
> > lovely to have it merged, but it hasn't made it to any of the
> > custodian trees from what I can see.
> > 
> 
> There are three maintainers for Rockchip architecture officially listed in
> MAINTAINERS. Philipp barely sends any mail to the ML anymore (max a handful
> per year the last 3-4 years according to lore.kernel.org/u-boot) and I'm not
> sure he has been involved in maintainership for years. Kever reviews much
> less often for the last half a year at the very least, as far as I've been
> told (not by him) his work responsibilities have drastically changed last
> year, so I am not sure if the situation will improve (soon or ever). His
> last mail is dated Dec. 14, 2025, date of his last pull request. As for
> Simon, I'm assuming he left these maintainership responsibilities to Kever
> since he was quite active for a long time. I assume it was important for his
> work at Google (Chromebooks?) but since he's not working there anymore, I
> don't know if there's still interest (or time, he's maintainer of many
> things already :) ). So in short... I think there's nobody left to merge
> anything at the moment, let alone review with their maintainer hat on.
> 
> I'm trying to review Rockchip stuff when I have time and some knowledge (or
> opinion) to hopefully have patches ready whenever there's going to be some
> maintainership activity resuming. But I also have only a handful of
> platforms (RK3399, PX30 and RK3588) so makes it difficult to test things.

Yes, this is likely another area where it would be good to have a
conversation about who has time and if anyone would like to join up more
officially about custodianship.

-- 
Tom

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