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From: Kevin Wolf <kwolf@redhat.com>
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To: Anatol Pomozov <anatol.pomozov@gmail.com>
Cc: QEMU Developers <qemu-devel@nongnu.org>, Richard Henderson <rth@twiddle.net>, Eduardo Habkost <ehabkost@redhat.com>, Paolo Bonzini <pbonzini@redhat.com>, Alexander Graf <agraf@suse.de>, peter.maydell@linaro.org

Am 17.11.2017 um 22:33 hat Anatol Pomozov geschrieben:
> On Tue, Oct 31, 2017 at 11:38 AM, Anatol Pomozov
> <anatol.pomozov@gmail.com> wrote:
> > Hi
> >
> > On Thu, Oct 19, 2017 at 2:36 AM, Kevin Wolf <kwolf@redhat.com> wrote:
> >> Am 18.10.2017 um 19:22 hat Anatol Pomozov geschrieben:
> >>> Hello qemu-devs,
> >>>
> >>> This patchset has been posted a while ago. I would like to move
> >>> forward with it and look at the next task (e.g. multiboot2 support in
> >>> QEMU). Who is the multiboot code maintainer who can help to review
> >>> this patchset and give go/no-go answer?
> >>
> >> I think that's exactly your problem, there is nobody who feels
> >> responsible for Multiboot support. Officially, it is part of the PC/x86
> >> subsystems:
> >
> > In this case I would like to become the official Qemu/Multiboot
> > maintainer. I do development related to x86 osdev and actively use
> > qemu for my projects. I am interested in having a feature-rich and
> > robust Multiboot implementation.
> 
> It is very unfortunate to see lack of interest in improving
> qemu/multiboot functionality. I guess my best option for now is to
> avoid using qemu multiboot implementation and use grub instead.

Let's wait until 2.11 is out and we're out of freeze, and then I think
your best bet is to just prepare a pull request that adds you to
MAINTAINERS and applies the patches you created so far.

Peter, does this sound right?

Kevin