Re: [PATCH v5 00/10] riscv: add initial support for SpacemiT K1

Conor Dooley
2024-10-18T17:24:43Z

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On Tue, Sep 17, 2024 at 10:08:03PM +0100, Conor Dooley wrote:
> In other news, nobody has really made an "official" statement about who
> is going to maintain this particular platform. People have expressed
> interest (including the submitter of the series, IIRC) but there's no
> MAINTAINERS entry added here AFAICT. I used to have an entry that
> covered arch/riscv/boot/dts/*, with exclusions for sunxi and renesas,
> but with Drew taking on thead and sophgo being the resぽonsibility of
> Chen Wang and Inochi, I no longer have that wildcard.
>
> I'm happy to apply patches for the platform if noone else is interested
> in that side of things, provided there are willing reviewers, but I
> would much rather that someone else took up the responsibility of
> applying patches and sending PRs - and of course I am happy to help
> whoever that is with the process.

On second thoughts (and on a second opinion) I am not actually willing
to apply patches for this platform, since it isn't sustainable to take
on each and every platform that there's no maintainer for.

+CC a few more people that have been involved in the platform.

Yixun Lan, you're kinda the "prime" person to maintain the platform
since you're the one who took up the core support work etc. Is
maintaining the platform, maybe with the help of one of the other folks
working on it something you can do?

Mostly the responsibilities are just applying patches for fixes/new
content and sending PRs to the soc maintainers - but knowing what's
right or not obviously requires familiarity with the platform which
people that work on it are best placed to do. Myself and the soc
maintainers will help if whoever does this runs into any trouble.
There is some documentation here https://docs.kernel.org/process/maintainer-soc.html
that will assist somewhat with getting up to speed with the process
also.

Cheers,
Conor.

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