On 2023-12-06 10:31, John Paul Adrian Glaubitz wrote:
Hi Sam!
On Tue, 2023-12-05 at 21:26 +0100, Sam Ravnborg wrote:
Agreed, it is long time since I got any indications that people
actually use these old machines.
The sparc32 machines I have, have not been powered up for several years
now, and they were only used to test new kernels on anyway.
I sent out a small patch series to do more or less what you suggested
maybe one year ago. Back then the resistance was only from nostalgic
people (like myself) and no real users.
If you or anyone moves forward removing the non-leon sparc32 support
then starting new would be the best approach, I do not think it makes
sense to dig up my old patch set.
Never mind, I digged up the old patchset and will try to prepare
something. Then we will see what reception the patch set receives this
time.
No objection this time. But maybe we could sort out the maintainer question
first, then start with new patches.
I like Arnd's suggestion that Andreas Larsson takes up (co-)maintainership.
Can someone reach out to him?
Hi,
I feel honored to be suggested for such a responsibility. I could in the
long term be available for a role as some kind of SPARC (co-)maintainer,
with backing from my organization. My SPARC experience is mainly with
SPARC32 rather than SPARC64, so discussing a co-maintainership with a
SPARC32 focus would feel natural as a start. I do not have much in terms
of SPARC64 or non-LEON SPARC32 hardware available for testing.
Has someone reached out to Dave? I think discussions like these might
be better served in a thread of its own.
Cheers,
Andreas Larsson
