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

[Zhou Yanjie]

Hi,

CC people from Ingenic Semi and Wanyee Tech.

On 2020å02æ20æ 20:11, YunQiang Su wrote:
> CC people from NeoCore and CIP United, and my Wave Computing's mail address.
>
> Thomas Bogendoerfer <tsbogend@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> ä2020å2æ20æåå äå7:23åéï
> > 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 ]