Re: [PATCH v1 0/9] riscv: add initial support for SpacemiT K1

[Conor Dooley <conor@kernel.org>]

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On Mon, Jun 17, 2024 at 10:11:17PM +0800, Jisheng Zhang wrote:
> On Sun, Jun 16, 2024 at 10:48:11PM +0000, Yixun Lan wrote:
> > Hi Conor
> >  Thanks for bringing this up
> > 
> > On 19:35 Sun 16 Jun     , Conor Dooley wrote:
> > > On Mon, Jun 17, 2024 at 01:18:52AM +0800, Yangyu Chen wrote:
> > > 
> > > No MAINTAINERS update, so I figure that means you don't want to maintain
> > > it going forwards? If there's someone out that that does care about the
> > > spacemit k1 (Jesse maybe?), then I'd be more than happy to have them
> > > look after it.
> > Yangyu kind of has limited time, too many stuff for him..
> > 
> > I'd volunteered to help on this if it can fill the gap
> > Also I'd be more than happy if anyone willing step forward to co-maintain..
> 
> Does maintainership work like this? Is willing to do enough?
> FWICT, maintainership involves active patch contributing, reviewing and
> maintaining the whole SoC. It is better to take over the maintainership
> after showing enough patch contributions and understanding of the SoC.

I was going to reply to your other patch about providing more complete
"basic" support for the SoC, but I guess I'll reply here and address
both points. After the k230 and th1520, which were both merged with very
basic support and have made very little progress towards being a useful
platform, I'm pretty reluctant to merge another platform in a super
basic state. I was going to make this point before you brought it up,
but it's good to know I am not the only one with that view. To be clear,
I'm not pointing blame for those platforms, I'd just like to avoid a
repeat. If Yangyu doesn't have time to do any development work on the
platform, I'd like to see someone else (and as I mentioned Jesse is
interested) take on getting some of the basic driver patches written and
merge only when those are accepted. Having no in-tree clock and pinctrl
drivers is definitely a hindrance to other people doing parallel
development of drivers and I'd like to avoid that.

Getting back to your point in this mail, whoever gets the platform to
that state is well suited to looking after it going forwards. Some other
interested parties could also join as reviewers. I don't want to see
people joining as maintainers that are not going to have an interest
in the platform going forward, as that'll just end up with me as the
defacto maintainer.

Thanks,
Conor.

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