linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH 2/2] MAINTAINERS: Set MIPS status to Odd Fixes

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Message-ID: <5E4E7E3E.6070608@wanyeetech.com>
Date:   Thu, 20 Feb 2020 20:40:30 +0800
From:   Zhou Yanjie <zhouyanjie@...yeetech.com>
To:     YunQiang Su <wzssyqa@...il.com>,
        Thomas Bogendoerfer <tsbogend@...ha.franken.de>
Cc:     Paul Burton <paulburton@...nel.org>,
        linux-mips <linux-mips@...r.kernel.org>,
        linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org, wayne.sun@...united.com,
        chris.wang@...core.cn, Yunqiang Su <ysu@...ecomp.com>,
        dongsheng.qiu@...enic.com, xuwanhao@...yeetech.com
Subject: Re: [PATCH 2/2] MAINTAINERS: Set MIPS status to Odd Fixes

Hi,

CC people from Ingenic Semi and Wanyee Tech.

On 2020年02月20日 20:11, YunQiang Su wrote:
> CC people from NeoCore and CIP United, and my Wave Computing's mail address.
>
> Thomas Bogendoerfer <tsbogend@...ha.franken.de> 于2020年2月20日周四 下午7:23写道：
>> On Wed, Feb 19, 2020 at 11:17:30AM -0800, Paul Burton wrote:
>>> My time with MIPS the company has reached its end, and so at best I'll
>>> have little time spend on maintaining arch/mips/. Reflect that in
>>> MAINTAINERS by changing status to Odd Fixes. Hopefully this might spur
>>> the involvement of someone with more time, but even if not it should
>>> help serve to avoid unrealistic expectations.
>> I'd like to jump in as MIPS maintainer. I'm doing Linux MIPS kernel
> It is a great news that you are willing to act as maintainer as Linux-MIPS.
>
>> development since ages (started with an Olivetti M700 and kernel version
>> 2.x) and right now time for doing the jobs isn't issue:-)
>>
> I noticed that you are mainly working some old machines.
> And recently years, there are some new machines from Ingenic, Loongson, MTK etc.
> MIPS Inc also have some MIPSr6 IPs.
> I think that you need some of these machines.

I can provide some new Ingenic platform machines as a gift to Thomas.
Ingenic X1000 can be provided in a short time, it has been directly 
supported by kernel 5.6.
X1830 and X2000 will be available later.

> In the last years, we see that the single maintainer is not enough as people may
> quite busy.
> Do you think that we need co-maintainers?
>
>> Thomas.
>>
>> --
>> Crap can work. Given enough thrust pigs will fly, but it's not necessarily a
>> good idea.                                                [ RFC1925, 2.3 ]
>
>