Fwd: Re: [03: PATCH 0/5] The remaining stuff

[linux@arm.linux.org.uk (Russell King - ARM Linux)]

On Mon, Dec 19, 2011 at 10:25:20AM +0000, Russell King - ARM Linux wrote:
> On Mon, Nov 28, 2011 at 11:45:55AM +0100, Hans J. Koch wrote:
> > On Thu, Nov 24, 2011 at 08:44:47PM +0000, Russell King - ARM Linux wrote:
> > > As I've already implied, I'm quite prepared to break these platforms at
> > > the next merge window for the greater good if there's no sign of
> > > maintainers willing to help sort them out - which will then ultimately
> > > result in them being deleted from mainline.
> > 
> > For the past 12 months, nobody was interested in Telechips (plat-tcc).
> > No community, no customers, no support from Telechips. Under these
> > circumstances, I am not willing to maintain this forever.
> > 
> > However, Harry Sievers, European distributor of Telechips, told me
> > that there are persons at Telechips who are interested in having
> > their stuff in mainline. He will tell them it is threatened with
> > being deleted from mainline, and ask for support.
> > 
> > I am willing to wait until christmas for any news from Harry, and
> > will then send a patch. Either one that fixes the arch as requested in
> > the mail above, or one that removes the whole platform from mainline.
> > My feeling is that the latter is more likely.
> > 
> > Russell, if that is too late for you, please let us know.
> 
> We're now less than a week away from Christmas - any news on this?
> If it's going to be deleted, could I have a patch to do so please?
> (You probably know better than me whether anything has been touched
> outside of arch/arm for it.)

Ping.

I'll delete it on Friday (tomorrow) unless I hear any news.