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charset=UTF-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit On 03/01/2025 09:35, Zhao Qunqin wrote: > > 在 2025/1/3 下午3:26, Krzysztof Kozlowski 写道: >> On 03/01/2025 03:25, Zhao Qunqin wrote: >>> 在 2024/12/28 下午7:02, Krzysztof Kozlowski 写道: >>>>> Only ACPI firmware is supported. >>>>> >>>>> Signed-off-by: Qunqin Zhao >>>> I don't get why you are sending this to soc. This is loongson specific >>>> and is supposed to go via Loongson maintainers. >>>> >>>> And why is this a resend? >>> There are no platform-specific maintainers, So I initially sent the >>> patch to Arnd, >> What do you mean by "no platform-specific maintainers"? This >> architecture and this platform is abandoned? > > Sorry for my poor english. This architecture and this  platform is not > ababdoned. > > What I mean is that there are no Loongson staff to maintain > drivers/soc/loongson. But there are maintainers of the platform, are they? Someone cares about Loongson or not? If someone cares, then Cc this person and this person is responsible for handling your patches. This is called "maintainer". If no one cares, then platform is abandoned and we should consider calling it orphaned in Linux. > > The current maintainer  for drivers/soc/loongson is Arnd. I don't think so. First, it is unusual. Second, maintainers disagree with you on above statement. You keep disagreeing here with me and I am afraid we will end up in endless discussion, so to reiterate because maybe I wrote my emails too soft or too conditional, instead of stating the desired outcome: Please send your Loongson SoC drivers to Loongson maintainers and they are supposed to take it. If they do not take it, I will send patch for making the platform orphaned. Best regards, Krzysztof