From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.4.0 (2014-02-07) on aws-us-west-2-korg-lkml-1.web.codeaurora.org X-Spam-Level: X-Spam-Status: No, score=-1.0 required=3.0 tests=HEADER_FROM_DIFFERENT_DOMAINS, MAILING_LIST_MULTI,SPF_PASS autolearn=ham autolearn_force=no version=3.4.0 Received: from mail.kernel.org (mail.kernel.org [198.145.29.99]) by smtp.lore.kernel.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 88319C169C4 for ; Mon, 11 Feb 2019 12:20:38 +0000 (UTC) Received: from vger.kernel.org (vger.kernel.org [209.132.180.67]) by mail.kernel.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 4FA2A2075B for ; Mon, 11 Feb 2019 12:20:38 +0000 (UTC) Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1727147AbfBKMUi convert rfc822-to-8bit (ORCPT ); Mon, 11 Feb 2019 07:20:38 -0500 Received: from linux-libre.fsfla.org ([209.51.188.54]:38228 "EHLO linux-libre.fsfla.org" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1726025AbfBKMUh (ORCPT ); Mon, 11 Feb 2019 07:20:37 -0500 X-Greylist: delayed 421 seconds by postgrey-1.27 at vger.kernel.org; Mon, 11 Feb 2019 07:20:37 EST Received: from free.home (home.lxoliva.fsfla.org [172.31.160.164]) by linux-libre.fsfla.org (8.15.2/8.15.2/Debian-3) with ESMTP id x1BCDC7x016558; Mon, 11 Feb 2019 12:13:13 GMT Received: from livre (livre.home [172.31.160.2]) by free.home (8.15.2/8.15.2) with ESMTP id x1BCD0Yh143080; Mon, 11 Feb 2019 10:13:00 -0200 From: Alexandre Oliva To: Tom Li Cc: James Hogan , Jiaxun Yang , Huacai Chen , Ralf Baechle , linux-mips@vger.kernel.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Subject: Re: [RFC] On the Current Troubles of Mainlining Loongson Platform Drivers Organization: Free thinker, not speaking for FSF Latin America References: <20190208083038.GA1433@localhost.localdomain> Date: Mon, 11 Feb 2019 10:13:00 -0200 In-Reply-To: <20190208083038.GA1433@localhost.localdomain> (Tom Li's message of "Fri, 8 Feb 2019 16:30:39 +0800") Message-ID: User-Agent: Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/26.1 (gnu/linux) MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8BIT X-Scanned-By: MIMEDefang 2.84 Sender: linux-mips-owner@vger.kernel.org Precedence: bulk List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-mips@vger.kernel.org On Feb 8, 2019, Tom Li wrote: > found Alexandre Oliva has stopped maintaining his tree ?!? I still merge and tag every one of Torvalds' and Greg KH's releases into the loongson-community tree, resolving trivial conflicts and trying to verify that it at least builds and passes a smoke test on actual hardware (after Linux-libre deblobbing, but still). Occasionally I notice problems and I try to investigate through bisecting, but, not being a real Linux developer, I seldom get much further than that. Two issues that bother me a bit are frequent failure to reboot/poweroff, that's been around since around 4.10, and, more recently, a very slow system overall, that's been present since 4.20. I haven't checked whether they're caused by changes in the loongson-community tree that I still carry, or if they're already present in upstream releases. I've already tried to bisect the former, but since the issue is intermittent, that proved to be too tricky and time-consuming for me. I haven't tried to bisect the latter yet. I've considered leaving the loongson-community tree behind and using upstream releases, but every time I was about to do that, something else came up that led me to keep at it. I think the last such occurrence was the removal of the video driver (later reintroduced as a new driver). So I've kept at it ;-) -- Alexandre Oliva, freedom fighter https://FSFLA.org/blogs/lxo Be the change, be Free! FSF Latin America board member GNU Toolchain Engineer Free Software Evangelist Hay que enGNUrecerse, pero sin perder la terGNUra jamás-GNUChe