Re: In search for reviewer/tester for Risc-V JH7110/Star64

[Krzysztof Kozlowski <krzk@kernel.org>]

On 12/01/2025 20:21, Christoph Zimmermann wrote:
> Hi
> 
> I ask here for a friend. He achieved quite some progress in bringing
> missing pieces of the Risc-V JH7110 SoC to mainline and/or bugfixing
> dts stuff.
> 
> Problem is now that he needs reviewers/testers and it seems that only
> few can do that or are missing hardware.
> 
> "they need participation, even if it is only "Tested-by"


I forwarded your message to friend who does some work around mainline
RISC-V and was looking for some involvement, although nothing related to
Switzerland so no hardware shipment.

> some of the patches need a deep understanding of JH7110, and it may be
> such technical knowledge that a competent Linux developer will give us
> advice how we can find answers for our questions most of the patches
> are simple and can be easily examined and tested for, if having JH7110
> hardware (like Star64) one example of easy to test
> patch: https://lore.kernel.org/lkml/20250102194530.418127-5-e@freeshell.de/
> "

I won't have time, but I admit that such projects are tempting - still
small community. Not like Rpi, where you send a patch and then discover
that 10 people already were working on this feature. :)

Best regards,
Krzysztof