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

["Philippe Mathieu-Daudé" <f4bug@amsat.org>]

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
>