[PATCH] MAINTAINERS: Mark the Nios II CPU as orphan

[PATCH] MAINTAINERS: Mark the Nios II CPU as orphan

[Thomas Huth]

Marek and Chris haven't been active for Nios II since years
(the last time seems to have been in 2017), and we've got
unhandled severe Nios II bug tickets in the bug tracker since
a long time, so to avoid wrong expectations of people who are
looking at the MAINTAINERS file, it's maybe best to mark the
Nios II entry as orphan nowadays.

Suggested-by: Richard Henderson <richard.henderson@linaro.org>
Signed-off-by: Thomas Huth <thuth@redhat.com>
---
 Suggested by Richard here:
 https://lore.kernel.org/qemu-devel/cb2e92b7-40bb-4975-290d-6321c5574365@linaro.org/
 
 And bugs like this sound like the linux-user target is in a bad shape, too:
 https://gitlab.com/qemu-project/qemu/-/issues/261

 See also:
 https://bugs.launchpad.net/qemu/+bug/1791796 (comment 3)

 ... nobody tried to fix nios2 linux-user in years, maybe we should
 deprecate it?

 MAINTAINERS | 6 +++---
 1 file changed, 3 insertions(+), 3 deletions(-)

diff --git a/MAINTAINERS b/MAINTAINERS
index 95c957d587..9780430626 100644
--- a/MAINTAINERS
+++ b/MAINTAINERS
@@ -257,9 +257,9 @@ F: docs/system/cpu-models-mips.rst.inc
 F: tests/tcg/mips/
 
 NiosII TCG CPUs
-M: Chris Wulff <crwulff@gmail.com>
-M: Marek Vasut <marex@denx.de>
-S: Maintained
+R: Chris Wulff <crwulff@gmail.com>
+R: Marek Vasut <marex@denx.de>
+S: Orphan
 F: target/nios2/
 F: hw/nios2/
 F: disas/nios2.c
-- 
2.31.1

Re: [PATCH] MAINTAINERS: Mark the Nios II CPU as orphan

[Richard Henderson]

On 3/13/23 11:33, Thomas Huth wrote:
> Marek and Chris haven't been active for Nios II since years
> (the last time seems to have been in 2017), and we've got
> unhandled severe Nios II bug tickets in the bug tracker since
> a long time, so to avoid wrong expectations of people who are
> looking at the MAINTAINERS file, it's maybe best to mark the
> Nios II entry as orphan nowadays.
> 
> Suggested-by: Richard Henderson <richard.henderson@linaro.org>
> Signed-off-by: Thomas Huth <thuth@redhat.com>

Reviewed-by: Richard Henderson <richard.henderson@linaro.org>


r~

> ---
>   Suggested by Richard here:
>   https://lore.kernel.org/qemu-devel/cb2e92b7-40bb-4975-290d-6321c5574365@linaro.org/
>   
>   And bugs like this sound like the linux-user target is in a bad shape, too:
>   https://gitlab.com/qemu-project/qemu/-/issues/261
> 
>   See also:
>   https://bugs.launchpad.net/qemu/+bug/1791796 (comment 3)
> 
>   ... nobody tried to fix nios2 linux-user in years, maybe we should
>   deprecate it?
> 
>   MAINTAINERS | 6 +++---
>   1 file changed, 3 insertions(+), 3 deletions(-)
> 
> diff --git a/MAINTAINERS b/MAINTAINERS
> index 95c957d587..9780430626 100644
> --- a/MAINTAINERS
> +++ b/MAINTAINERS
> @@ -257,9 +257,9 @@ F: docs/system/cpu-models-mips.rst.inc
>   F: tests/tcg/mips/
>   
>   NiosII TCG CPUs
> -M: Chris Wulff <crwulff@gmail.com>
> -M: Marek Vasut <marex@denx.de>
> -S: Maintained
> +R: Chris Wulff <crwulff@gmail.com>
> +R: Marek Vasut <marex@denx.de>
> +S: Orphan
>   F: target/nios2/
>   F: hw/nios2/
>   F: disas/nios2.c

Re: [PATCH] MAINTAINERS: Mark the Nios II CPU as orphan

[Philippe Mathieu-Daudé]

+CodeSourcery folks

On 13/3/23 19:33, Thomas Huth wrote:
> Marek and Chris haven't been active for Nios II since years
> (the last time seems to have been in 2017), and we've got
> unhandled severe Nios II bug tickets in the bug tracker since
> a long time, so to avoid wrong expectations of people who are
> looking at the MAINTAINERS file, it's maybe best to mark the
> Nios II entry as orphan nowadays.
> 
> Suggested-by: Richard Henderson <richard.henderson@linaro.org>
> Signed-off-by: Thomas Huth <thuth@redhat.com>
> ---
>   Suggested by Richard here:
>   https://lore.kernel.org/qemu-devel/cb2e92b7-40bb-4975-290d-6321c5574365@linaro.org/
>   
>   And bugs like this sound like the linux-user target is in a bad shape, too:
>   https://gitlab.com/qemu-project/qemu/-/issues/261
> 
>   See also:
>   https://bugs.launchpad.net/qemu/+bug/1791796 (comment 3)
> 
>   ... nobody tried to fix nios2 linux-user in years, maybe we should
>   deprecate it?
> 
>   MAINTAINERS | 6 +++---
>   1 file changed, 3 insertions(+), 3 deletions(-)
> 
> diff --git a/MAINTAINERS b/MAINTAINERS
> index 95c957d587..9780430626 100644
> --- a/MAINTAINERS
> +++ b/MAINTAINERS
> @@ -257,9 +257,9 @@ F: docs/system/cpu-models-mips.rst.inc
>   F: tests/tcg/mips/
>   
>   NiosII TCG CPUs
> -M: Chris Wulff <crwulff@gmail.com>
> -M: Marek Vasut <marex@denx.de>
> -S: Maintained
> +R: Chris Wulff <crwulff@gmail.com>
> +R: Marek Vasut <marex@denx.de>
> +S: Orphan
>   F: target/nios2/
>   F: hw/nios2/
>   F: disas/nios2.c

Reviewed-by: Philippe Mathieu-Daudé <philmd@linaro.org>

Re: [PATCH] MAINTAINERS: Mark the Nios II CPU as orphan

[Sandra Loosemore]

On 3/13/23 14:46, Philippe Mathieu-Daudé wrote:
> +CodeSourcery folks
> 
> On 13/3/23 19:33, Thomas Huth wrote:
>> Marek and Chris haven't been active for Nios II since years
>> (the last time seems to have been in 2017), and we've got
>> unhandled severe Nios II bug tickets in the bug tracker since
>> a long time, so to avoid wrong expectations of people who are
>> looking at the MAINTAINERS file, it's maybe best to mark the
>> Nios II entry as orphan nowadays.

Thanks for the heads up.  We're still maintaining Nios II support in 
other components like GCC for now, but I am not sure whether it makes 
any sense for us to take on QEMU too at this point.  I'll raise the 
issue, anyway.

-Sandra