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On 07/30/2014 09:00 AM, James Hogan wrote:
[...]

> ... Since Ralf appears to be unavailable at the moment ...
>
[...]

This doesn't seem to be a temporary situation.

If we want to keep the MIPS architecture in a functioning state, it may 
make sense to establish an alternate path for merging MIPS patches upstream.

David Daney.