Re: [Qemu-devel] [PATCH v2 0/8] MIPS Boston board support

[Peter Maydell <peter.maydell@linaro.org>]

On 27 October 2016 at 19:04, Paul Burton <paul.burton@imgtec.com> wrote:
> On Thursday, 8 September 2016 15:51:50 BST Paul Burton wrote:
>> This series introduces support for the MIPS Boston development board. It
>> begins by introducing support for moving MIPS Coherence Manager GCRs which
>> Boston software typically does to avoid conflicting with its flash memory
>> region. An API is then added to retrieve the emulated MIPS GIC timer
>> frequency, which is used to report system clock frequency to software via
>> "platform registers" which the Boston board provides. An issue with the
>> MIPS GIC that current Boston Linux kernels encounter is fixed, and an API
>> introduced to allow the board to determine whether the MIPS CPS hardware is
>> supported.

> Is there anything else I can do to move this along? These patches have been
> sat waiting for review or merging for what's approaching 2 months now.

As a general rule, the way our dev process works is that until a
maintainer actively picks up a patchset it's still "owned" by the
submitter, and so you have to check that it hasn't been forgotten
and send 'ping' emails as necessary (usually after a couple of weeks
of nothing-happening) to ensure it doesn't get lost.

In this case I suspect the patchset may have accidentally got lost
in the transition of MIPS maintainers from Leon to Yongbok.

thanks
-- PMM