Re: microchip soc maintainance change proposal

[Alexandre Belloni <alexandre.belloni@bootlin.com>]

On 25/09/2024 17:16:10+0100, Conor Dooley wrote:
> On Wed, Sep 25, 2024 at 10:34:10AM +0300, claudiu beznea wrote:
> > 
> > 
> > On 24.09.2024 17:24, Alexandre Belloni wrote:
> > > On 24/09/2024 16:05:45+0200, Nicolas Ferre wrote:
> > >> On 24/09/2024 at 13:46, Conor Dooley wrote:
> > >>> Hey folks,
> > >>>
> > >>> I mentioned this to Arnd and Alexandre at LPC, and to Nicolas before
> > >>> that, but I would like to propose some changes to how the Microchip soc
> > >>> support is maintained - mostly affecting the riscv side of things that
> > >>> I've been maintaining in my personal tree, alongside other platforms.
> > >>> I'd like to propose moving those from my tree, into the at91 tree.
> > >>
> > >> I don't know if the "at91" naming will remain a right designation of what
> > >> we're doing in the future, but well, let's stick to it for now.
> > >> Some find it a little too much tight to the old Atmel brand...
> > >>
> > > 
> > > We could take this opportunity to rename the tree microchip or mchp. 
> > 
> > +1
> 
> I personally don't care at all about the tree being called at91 or w/e,
> but I wouldn't object to a rename to either. I can whip up a mail to the
> helpdesk if yous like.

Yeah, I guess you can ask for the rename and be added to the list of
users that can push to the repo. At the same time, you can send a patch
to update the MAINTAINER entry so we can ack it.



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