Re: [PATCH v2 2/8] MAINTAINERS: Mark SH4 based R2D & Shix machines orphan

[Yoshinori Sato]

On Tue, 09 Jun 2020 18:12:42 +0900,
Philippe Mathieu-Daudé wrote:
> 
> Hi Magnus,
> 
> On 6/9/20 10:59 AM, Magnus Damm wrote:
> > Hi Markus and Thomas,
> > 
> > On Tue, Jun 9, 2020 at 5:41 PM Markus Armbruster <armbru@redhat.com> wrote:
> >>
> >> Thomas Huth <thuth@redhat.com> writes:
> >>
> >>> On 08/06/2020 11.01, Philippe Mathieu-Daudé wrote:
> >>>> Last commit from Magnus Damm is fc8e320ef583, which date is
> >>>> Fri Nov 13 2009.  As nobody else seems to care about the patches
> >>>> posted [*] related to the R2D and Shix machines, mark them orphan.
> >>>>
> >>>> Many thanks to Magnus for his substantial contributions to QEMU,
> >>>> and for introducing these SH4 based machine!
> >>
> >> s/machine/machines/
> >>
> >>>>
> >>>> [*] https://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/qemu-devel/2020-05/msg08519.html
> >>>>
> >>>> Cc: Magnus Damm <magnus.damm@gmail.com>
> >>>> Signed-off-by: Philippe Mathieu-Daudé <f4bug@amsat.org>
> >>>> ---
> >>>>  MAINTAINERS | 5 +++--
> >>>>  1 file changed, 3 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)
> >>>>
> >>>> diff --git a/MAINTAINERS b/MAINTAINERS
> >>>> index 49d90c70de..a012d9b74e 100644
> >>>> --- a/MAINTAINERS
> >>>> +++ b/MAINTAINERS
> >>>> @@ -1250,14 +1250,15 @@ SH4 Machines
> >>>>  ------------
> >>>>  R2D
> >>>>  M: Magnus Damm <magnus.damm@gmail.com>
> >>>> -S: Maintained
> >>>> +S: Orphan
> >>>>  F: hw/sh4/r2d.c
> >>>>  F: hw/intc/sh_intc.c
> >>>>  F: hw/timer/sh_timer.c
> >>>> +F: include/hw/sh4/sh_intc.h
> >>>>
> >>>>  Shix
> >>>>  M: Magnus Damm <magnus.damm@gmail.com>
> >>>> -S: Odd Fixes
> >>>> +S: Orphan
> >>>>  F: hw/sh4/shix.c
> >>>
> >>> Having both, an "M:" entry and "S: Orphan" in a section sounds weird.
> >>> Magnus, are you still interested in these sections? If not, I think the
> >>> "M:" line should be removed...?
> >>
> >> Concur.  Of course, let's give Magnus a chance to chime in.
> > 
> > Thanks guys! I'm interested but don't have so much time available to
> > commit to this I'm afraid. In particular I'm keen on trying to keep
> > R2D around since I happen to have a physical machine setup in my
> > remote access rack. SH4 with FPU used to have alright gcc + binutils
> > toolchain and glibc support once while other SuperH SoCs lacked some
> > portions. So keeping SH4 (sh775x) around would be nice IMO.
> 
> Great news!
> 
> FYI Yoshinori Sato did a great job on updating the Renesas
> hardware, see:
> https://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/qemu-devel/2020-05/msg08584.html
> 
> He might be able to help with the UART/TIMER peripherals used by the
> R2D, see a suggestion to add a 'Renesas hardware' entry:
> https://www.mail-archive.com/qemu-devel@nongnu.org/msg708478.html
> 
> If Yoshinori accept the suggestion to add a Renesas hardware entry, do
> you agree to be listed as there too? Maybe with a 'R:' tag for
> designated reviewer instead of maintainer.
> 
> So I'll respin this series with these changes:
> 
> R2D: S: 'Maintained' -> 'Odd Fixes'
> 
> So contributors don't wait for you to take the patches, and they can go
> via qemu-trivial.
> 
> And Shix -> No maintainer, S: 'Obsolete'.
> 
> The TCG backend stay orphan.
> 
> Regards,
> 
> Phil.
> 
> > 
> > Cheers,
> > 
> > / magnus
> > 
> 

OK.
I also need sh4, so I will perform maintenance.

-- 
Yosinori Sato