MAINTAINERS entries that aren't S: Orphan but maybe should be

MAINTAINERS entries that aren't S: Orphan but maybe should be

[Markus Armbruster]

I'm cc'ing reviewers and lists mentioned below, and frequent
contributors to MAINTAINERS.

There are a number of MAINTAINERS entries with S: other than "Orphan"
without M:

    $ awk '/^M: / { m++ } /^S: / { s=$2 } /^$/ && s { if (!m && s != "Orphan") print t; m=0; s=""; getline; t=FILENAME ":" FNR ": " $0; next }' MAINTAINERS 
    MAINTAINERS:1736: Microchip PolarFire SoC Icicle Kit
    MAINTAINERS:1792: SH4 Machines
    MAINTAINERS:2022: Machine core
    MAINTAINERS:2226: ACPI/HEST/GHES/ARM processor CPER
    MAINTAINERS:2555: vhost-user-scmi
    MAINTAINERS:2862: XIVE
    MAINTAINERS:2872: Renesas peripherals
    MAINTAINERS:3165: CheckPoint and Restart (CPR)
    MAINTAINERS:3719: Checkpatch
    MAINTAINERS:3746: RDMA Migration
    MAINTAINERS:3894: Record/replay
    MAINTAINERS:4029: OpenSBI Firmware
    MAINTAINERS:4153: SPARC TCG target
    MAINTAINERS:4233: CURL
    MAINTAINERS:4238: GLUSTER

Some of these have R:

    MAINTAINERS:1792: SH4 Machines
    R: Yoshinori Sato <yoshinori.sato@nifty.com>
    S: Odd Fixes

    MAINTAINERS:2022: Machine core
    R: Philippe Mathieu-Daudé <philmd@linaro.org>
    R: Zhao Liu <zhao1.liu@intel.com>
    S: Supported

    MAINTAINERS:2226: ACPI/HEST/GHES/ARM processor CPER
    R: Mauro Carvalho Chehab <mchehab+huawei@kernel.org>
    S: Maintained

    MAINTAINERS:2555: vhost-user-scmi
    R: Milan Zamazal <mzamazal@redhat.com>
    S: Supported

    MAINTAINERS:2862: XIVE
    R: Gautam Menghani <gautam@linux.ibm.com>
    R: Glenn Miles <milesg@linux.ibm.com>
    L: qemu-ppc@nongnu.org
    S: Odd Fixes

    MAINTAINERS:2872: Renesas peripherals
    R: Yoshinori Sato <yoshinori.sato@nifty.com>
    S: Odd Fixes

    MAINTAINERS:3165: CheckPoint and Restart (CPR)
    R: Peter Xu <peterx@redhat.com>
    R: Fabiano Rosas <farosas@suse.de>
    R: Mark Kanda <mark.kanda@oracle.com>
    R: Ben Chaney <bchaney@akamai.com>
    S: Supported

    MAINTAINERS:3746: RDMA Migration
    R: Li Zhijian <lizhijian@fujitsu.com>
    R: Peter Xu <peterx@redhat.com>
    S: Odd Fixes

    MAINTAINERS:3894: Record/replay
    R: Paolo Bonzini <pbonzini@redhat.com>
    R: Alex Bennée <alex.bennee@linaro.org>
    S: Odd Fixes

Only R: feels tolerable with S: Odd Fixes.  However, S: Supported and
S: Maintained are clearly wrong.  Unless somebody steps up to serve as
M:, we should downgrade to S: Odd Fixes.  Volunteers?

These have at least L:

    MAINTAINERS:1736: Microchip PolarFire SoC Icicle Kit
    L: qemu-riscv@nongnu.org
    S: Supported

    MAINTAINERS:4029: OpenSBI Firmware
    L: qemu-riscv@nongnu.org
    S: Supported

    MAINTAINERS:4233: CURL
    L: qemu-block@nongnu.org
    S: Odd Fixes

    MAINTAINERS:4238: GLUSTER
    L: qemu-block@nongnu.org
    L: integration@gluster.org
    S: Odd Fixes

Likewise.  Volunteers?

These have neither:

    MAINTAINERS:3719: Checkpatch
    S: Odd Fixes

    MAINTAINERS:4153: SPARC TCG target
    S: Odd Fixes

Unless somebody steps up to server as M: or at least R:, we should
downgrade to S: Orphan.  Volunteers?

Re: MAINTAINERS entries that aren't S: Orphan but maybe should be

[Cédric Le Goater]

On 5/6/26 14:01, Markus Armbruster wrote:
> I'm cc'ing reviewers and lists mentioned below, and frequent
> contributors to MAINTAINERS.
> 
> There are a number of MAINTAINERS entries with S: other than "Orphan"
> without M:
> 
>      $ awk '/^M: / { m++ } /^S: / { s=$2 } /^$/ && s { if (!m && s != "Orphan") print t; m=0; s=""; getline; t=FILENAME ":" FNR ": " $0; next }' MAINTAINERS
>      MAINTAINERS:1736: Microchip PolarFire SoC Icicle Kit
>      MAINTAINERS:1792: SH4 Machines
>      MAINTAINERS:2022: Machine core
>      MAINTAINERS:2226: ACPI/HEST/GHES/ARM processor CPER
>      MAINTAINERS:2555: vhost-user-scmi
>      MAINTAINERS:2862: XIVE
>      MAINTAINERS:2872: Renesas peripherals
>      MAINTAINERS:3165: CheckPoint and Restart (CPR)
>      MAINTAINERS:3719: Checkpatch
>      MAINTAINERS:3746: RDMA Migration
>      MAINTAINERS:3894: Record/replay
>      MAINTAINERS:4029: OpenSBI Firmware
>      MAINTAINERS:4153: SPARC TCG target
>      MAINTAINERS:4233: CURL
>      MAINTAINERS:4238: GLUSTER
> 
> Some of these have R:
> 
>      MAINTAINERS:1792: SH4 Machines
>      R: Yoshinori Sato <yoshinori.sato@nifty.com>
>      S: Odd Fixes
> 
>      MAINTAINERS:2022: Machine core
>      R: Philippe Mathieu-Daudé <philmd@linaro.org>
>      R: Zhao Liu <zhao1.liu@intel.com>
>      S: Supported
> 
>      MAINTAINERS:2226: ACPI/HEST/GHES/ARM processor CPER
>      R: Mauro Carvalho Chehab <mchehab+huawei@kernel.org>
>      S: Maintained
> 
>      MAINTAINERS:2555: vhost-user-scmi
>      R: Milan Zamazal <mzamazal@redhat.com>
>      S: Supported
> 
>      MAINTAINERS:2862: XIVE
>      R: Gautam Menghani <gautam@linux.ibm.com>
>      R: Glenn Miles <milesg@linux.ibm.com>
>      L: qemu-ppc@nongnu.org
>      S: Odd Fixes


Harsh, Glenn, Caleb, Gautam,

Could you please propose a maintainer for XIVE ? I can still act
as backup as a last resort but I'd rather not.

> 
>      MAINTAINERS:2872: Renesas peripherals
>      R: Yoshinori Sato <yoshinori.sato@nifty.com>
>      S: Odd Fixes
> 
>      MAINTAINERS:3165: CheckPoint and Restart (CPR)
>      R: Peter Xu <peterx@redhat.com>
>      R: Fabiano Rosas <farosas@suse.de>
>      R: Mark Kanda <mark.kanda@oracle.com>
>      R: Ben Chaney <bchaney@akamai.com>
>      S: Supported


Since Steve has retired, I believe Mark has taken over and should
be promoted Maintainer. Correct ?

Thanks,

C.

> 
>      MAINTAINERS:3746: RDMA Migration
>      R: Li Zhijian <lizhijian@fujitsu.com>
>      R: Peter Xu <peterx@redhat.com>
>      S: Odd Fixes
> 
>      MAINTAINERS:3894: Record/replay
>      R: Paolo Bonzini <pbonzini@redhat.com>
>      R: Alex Bennée <alex.bennee@linaro.org>
>      S: Odd Fixes
> 
> Only R: feels tolerable with S: Odd Fixes.  However, S: Supported and
> S: Maintained are clearly wrong.  Unless somebody steps up to serve as
> M:, we should downgrade to S: Odd Fixes.  Volunteers?
> 
> These have at least L:
> 
>      MAINTAINERS:1736: Microchip PolarFire SoC Icicle Kit
>      L: qemu-riscv@nongnu.org
>      S: Supported
> 
>      MAINTAINERS:4029: OpenSBI Firmware
>      L: qemu-riscv@nongnu.org
>      S: Supported
> 
>      MAINTAINERS:4233: CURL
>      L: qemu-block@nongnu.org
>      S: Odd Fixes
> 
>      MAINTAINERS:4238: GLUSTER
>      L: qemu-block@nongnu.org
>      L: integration@gluster.org
>      S: Odd Fixes
> 
> Likewise.  Volunteers?
> 
> These have neither:
> 
>      MAINTAINERS:3719: Checkpatch
>      S: Odd Fixes
> 
>      MAINTAINERS:4153: SPARC TCG target
>      S: Odd Fixes
> 
> Unless somebody steps up to server as M: or at least R:, we should
> downgrade to S: Orphan.  Volunteers?
> 

Re: MAINTAINERS entries that aren't S: Orphan but maybe should be

[Mauro Carvalho Chehab]

On Wed, 6 May 2026 14:26:16 +0200
Cédric Le Goater <clg@redhat.com> wrote:

> On 5/6/26 14:01, Markus Armbruster wrote:
> > I'm cc'ing reviewers and lists mentioned below, and frequent
> > contributors to MAINTAINERS.
> > 
> > There are a number of MAINTAINERS entries with S: other than "Orphan"
> > without M:
> > 

...

> > Unless somebody steps up to server as M: or at least R:, we should
> > downgrade to S: Orphan.  Volunteers?
>   

...

> >      MAINTAINERS:2226: ACPI/HEST/GHES/ARM processor CPER
> >      R: Mauro Carvalho Chehab <mchehab+huawei@kernel.org>
> >      S: Maintained

I'm ok to change this one to M.

I can also pickup maintainership on this one:

	ACPI/HEST/GHES
	L: qemu-arm@nongnu.org
	S: Orphan
	F: hw/acpi/ghes.c
	F: include/hw/acpi/ghes.h
	F: docs/specs/acpi_hest_ghes.rst


-- 
Thanks,
Mauro

Re: MAINTAINERS entries that aren't S: Orphan but maybe should be

[Caleb Schlossin]

On 5/6/26 7:26 AM, Cédric Le Goater wrote:
> On 5/6/26 14:01, Markus Armbruster wrote:
>> I'm cc'ing reviewers and lists mentioned below, and frequent
>> contributors to MAINTAINERS.
>>
>> There are a number of MAINTAINERS entries with S: other than "Orphan"
>> without M:
>>
>>      $ awk '/^M: / { m++ } /^S: / { s=$2 } /^$/ && s { if (!m && s != "Orphan") print t; m=0; s=""; getline; t=FILENAME ":" FNR ": " $0; next }' MAINTAINERS
>>      MAINTAINERS:1736: Microchip PolarFire SoC Icicle Kit
>>      MAINTAINERS:1792: SH4 Machines
>>      MAINTAINERS:2022: Machine core
>>      MAINTAINERS:2226: ACPI/HEST/GHES/ARM processor CPER
>>      MAINTAINERS:2555: vhost-user-scmi
>>      MAINTAINERS:2862: XIVE
>>      MAINTAINERS:2872: Renesas peripherals
>>      MAINTAINERS:3165: CheckPoint and Restart (CPR)
>>      MAINTAINERS:3719: Checkpatch
>>      MAINTAINERS:3746: RDMA Migration
>>      MAINTAINERS:3894: Record/replay
>>      MAINTAINERS:4029: OpenSBI Firmware
>>      MAINTAINERS:4153: SPARC TCG target
>>      MAINTAINERS:4233: CURL
>>      MAINTAINERS:4238: GLUSTER
>>
>> Some of these have R:
>>
>>      MAINTAINERS:1792: SH4 Machines
>>      R: Yoshinori Sato <yoshinori.sato@nifty.com>
>>      S: Odd Fixes
>>
>>      MAINTAINERS:2022: Machine core
>>      R: Philippe Mathieu-Daudé <philmd@linaro.org>
>>      R: Zhao Liu <zhao1.liu@intel.com>
>>      S: Supported
>>
>>      MAINTAINERS:2226: ACPI/HEST/GHES/ARM processor CPER
>>      R: Mauro Carvalho Chehab <mchehab+huawei@kernel.org>
>>      S: Maintained
>>
>>      MAINTAINERS:2555: vhost-user-scmi
>>      R: Milan Zamazal <mzamazal@redhat.com>
>>      S: Supported
>>
>>      MAINTAINERS:2862: XIVE
>>      R: Gautam Menghani <gautam@linux.ibm.com>
>>      R: Glenn Miles <milesg@linux.ibm.com>
>>      L: qemu-ppc@nongnu.org
>>      S: Odd Fixes
> 
> 
> Harsh, Glenn, Caleb, Gautam,
> 
> Could you please propose a maintainer for XIVE ? I can still act
> as backup as a last resort but I'd rather not.

Cedric,

I spoke to Glenn and he'll take on the role of maintainer of XIVE. He'll be submitting a patch set shortly.

Thanks,
Caleb

> 
>>
>>      MAINTAINERS:2872: Renesas peripherals
>>      R: Yoshinori Sato <yoshinori.sato@nifty.com>
>>      S: Odd Fixes
>>
>>      MAINTAINERS:3165: CheckPoint and Restart (CPR)
>>      R: Peter Xu <peterx@redhat.com>
>>      R: Fabiano Rosas <farosas@suse.de>
>>      R: Mark Kanda <mark.kanda@oracle.com>
>>      R: Ben Chaney <bchaney@akamai.com>
>>      S: Supported
> 
> 
> Since Steve has retired, I believe Mark has taken over and should
> be promoted Maintainer. Correct ?
> 
> Thanks,
> 
> C.
> 
>>
>>      MAINTAINERS:3746: RDMA Migration
>>      R: Li Zhijian <lizhijian@fujitsu.com>
>>      R: Peter Xu <peterx@redhat.com>
>>      S: Odd Fixes
>>
>>      MAINTAINERS:3894: Record/replay
>>      R: Paolo Bonzini <pbonzini@redhat.com>
>>      R: Alex Bennée <alex.bennee@linaro.org>
>>      S: Odd Fixes
>>
>> Only R: feels tolerable with S: Odd Fixes.  However, S: Supported and
>> S: Maintained are clearly wrong.  Unless somebody steps up to serve as
>> M:, we should downgrade to S: Odd Fixes.  Volunteers?
>>
>> These have at least L:
>>
>>      MAINTAINERS:1736: Microchip PolarFire SoC Icicle Kit
>>      L: qemu-riscv@nongnu.org
>>      S: Supported
>>
>>      MAINTAINERS:4029: OpenSBI Firmware
>>      L: qemu-riscv@nongnu.org
>>      S: Supported
>>
>>      MAINTAINERS:4233: CURL
>>      L: qemu-block@nongnu.org
>>      S: Odd Fixes
>>
>>      MAINTAINERS:4238: GLUSTER
>>      L: qemu-block@nongnu.org
>>      L: integration@gluster.org
>>      S: Odd Fixes
>>
>> Likewise.  Volunteers?
>>
>> These have neither:
>>
>>      MAINTAINERS:3719: Checkpatch
>>      S: Odd Fixes
>>
>>      MAINTAINERS:4153: SPARC TCG target
>>      S: Odd Fixes
>>
>> Unless somebody steps up to server as M: or at least R:, we should
>> downgrade to S: Orphan.  Volunteers?
>>
> 

Re: MAINTAINERS entries that aren't S: Orphan but maybe should be

[Harsh Prateek Bora]

On 06/05/26 7:24 pm, Caleb Schlossin wrote:
>>>       MAINTAINERS:2862: XIVE
>>>       R: Gautam Menghani<gautam@linux.ibm.com>
>>>       R: Glenn Miles<milesg@linux.ibm.com>
>>>       L:qemu-ppc@nongnu.org
>>>       S: Odd Fixes
>>
>> Harsh, Glenn, Caleb, Gautam,
>>
>> Could you please propose a maintainer for XIVE ? I can still act
>> as backup as a last resort but I'd rather not.
> Cedric,
> 
> I spoke to Glenn and he'll take on the role of maintainer of XIVE. He'll be submitting a patch set shortly.

Thanks to Glenn for taking care of it!

> 
> Thanks,
> Caleb

Re: MAINTAINERS entries that aren't S: Orphan but maybe should be

[Mark Kanda]

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On 5/6/26 7:26 AM, Cédric Le Goater wrote:
>>      MAINTAINERS:3165: CheckPoint and Restart (CPR)
>>      R: Peter Xu <peterx@redhat.com>
>>      R: Fabiano Rosas <farosas@suse.de>
>>      R: Mark Kanda <mark.kanda@oracle.com>
>>      R: Ben Chaney <bchaney@akamai.com>
>>      S: Supported
>
> Since Steve has retired, I believe Mark has taken over and should
> be promoted Maintainer. Correct ?

Maciej Szmigiero (cc'd) will take over as CPR maintainer (thanks Maciej!).
I will remain as a reviewer.

Thanks/regards,
-Mark

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Re: MAINTAINERS entries that aren't S: Orphan but maybe should be

[Markus Armbruster]

Mark Kanda <mark.kanda@oracle.com> writes:

> On 5/6/26 7:26 AM, Cédric Le Goater wrote:
>>>      MAINTAINERS:3165: CheckPoint and Restart (CPR)
>>>      R: Peter Xu <peterx@redhat.com>
>>>      R: Fabiano Rosas <farosas@suse.de>
>>>      R: Mark Kanda <mark.kanda@oracle.com>
>>>      R: Ben Chaney <bchaney@akamai.com>
>>>      S: Supported
>>
>> Since Steve has retired, I believe Mark has taken over and should
>> be promoted Maintainer. Correct ?
>
> Maciej Szmigiero (cc'd) will take over as CPR maintainer (thanks Maciej!).
> I will remain as a reviewer.
>
> Thanks/regards,
> -Mark

Can one of you post a patch to update MAINTAINERS?

Thanks!

Re: MAINTAINERS entries that aren't S: Orphan but maybe should be

[Maciej S. Szmigiero]

On 13.05.2026 07:58, Markus Armbruster wrote:
> Mark Kanda <mark.kanda@oracle.com> writes:
> 
>> On 5/6/26 7:26 AM, Cédric Le Goater wrote:
>>>>       MAINTAINERS:3165: CheckPoint and Restart (CPR)
>>>>       R: Peter Xu <peterx@redhat.com>
>>>>       R: Fabiano Rosas <farosas@suse.de>
>>>>       R: Mark Kanda <mark.kanda@oracle.com>
>>>>       R: Ben Chaney <bchaney@akamai.com>
>>>>       S: Supported
>>>
>>> Since Steve has retired, I believe Mark has taken over and should
>>> be promoted Maintainer. Correct ?
>>
>> Maciej Szmigiero (cc'd) will take over as CPR maintainer (thanks Maciej!).
>> I will remain as a reviewer.
>>
>> Thanks/regards,
>> -Mark
> 
> Can one of you post a patch to update MAINTAINERS?

I have now submitted an update to MAINTAINERS:
https://lore.kernel.org/qemu-devel/ebe67053f4bdf92eedab1e5839603b7137e36970.1778687091.git.maciej.szmigiero@oracle.com/
  
> Thanks!
> 

Thanks,
Maciej

Re: MAINTAINERS entries that aren't S: Orphan but maybe should be

[Philippe Mathieu-Daudé]

On 6/5/26 14:01, Markus Armbruster wrote:
> I'm cc'ing reviewers and lists mentioned below, and frequent
> contributors to MAINTAINERS.
> 
> There are a number of MAINTAINERS entries with S: other than "Orphan"
> without M:


> Some of these have R:


>      MAINTAINERS:2022: Machine core
>      R: Philippe Mathieu-Daudé <philmd@linaro.org>
>      R: Zhao Liu <zhao1.liu@intel.com>
>      S: Supported

See:
https://lore.kernel.org/qemu-devel/20260422080406.62638-5-philmd@linaro.org/

Re: MAINTAINERS entries that aren't S: Orphan but maybe should be

[Thomas Huth]

On 06/05/2026 14.01, Markus Armbruster wrote:
> I'm cc'ing reviewers and lists mentioned below, and frequent
> contributors to MAINTAINERS.
> 
> There are a number of MAINTAINERS entries with S: other than "Orphan"
> without M:
...
>      MAINTAINERS:4238: GLUSTER
>      L: qemu-block@nongnu.org
>      L: integration@gluster.org
>      S: Odd Fixes
The Gluster backend has been marked as deprecated in QEMU since v9.2 
already, and as far as I know, there was nobody complaining, so it's likely 
time to remove the code now?

  Thomas

Re: MAINTAINERS entries that aren't S: Orphan but maybe should be

[Peter Xu]

On Wed, May 06, 2026 at 02:01:46PM +0200, Markus Armbruster wrote:
>     MAINTAINERS:3746: RDMA Migration
>     R: Li Zhijian <lizhijian@fujitsu.com>
>     R: Peter Xu <peterx@redhat.com>
>     S: Odd Fixes

For this one, "Odd Fixes" should still be proper. Initially, Juan was the
M: listed and it was gone only because Juan's left..

Zhijian, do you want to be M: here?  I think you're the most suitable.
Otherwise I can switch to M:, just to say I'm still collecting patches.

-- 
Peter Xu

Re: MAINTAINERS entries that aren't S: Orphan but maybe should be

[Zhijian Li (Fujitsu)]

On 06/05/2026 21:40, Peter Xu wrote:
> On Wed, May 06, 2026 at 02:01:46PM +0200, Markus Armbruster wrote:
>>      MAINTAINERS:3746: RDMA Migration
>>      R: Li Zhijian <lizhijian@fujitsu.com>
>>      R: Peter Xu <peterx@redhat.com>
>>      S: Odd Fixes
> 
> For this one, "Odd Fixes" should still be proper. Initially, Juan was the
> M: listed and it was gone only because Juan's left..
> 
> Zhijian, do you want to be M: here?  I think you're the most suitable.


Thanks for offering, Peter. I'd prefer not to be the maintainer, but I'm happy to
continue reviewing patches.


> Otherwise I can switch to M:, just to say I'm still collecting patches.
> 


It would be great if you could take the M: role :)


Thanks
Zhijian

Re: MAINTAINERS entries that aren't S: Orphan but maybe should be

[Alistair Francis]

On Wed, May 6, 2026 at 10:03 PM Markus Armbruster <armbru@redhat.com> wrote:
>
> I'm cc'ing reviewers and lists mentioned below, and frequent
> contributors to MAINTAINERS.
>
> There are a number of MAINTAINERS entries with S: other than "Orphan"
> without M:
>
>     $ awk '/^M: / { m++ } /^S: / { s=$2 } /^$/ && s { if (!m && s != "Orphan") print t; m=0; s=""; getline; t=FILENAME ":" FNR ": " $0; next }' MAINTAINERS
>     MAINTAINERS:1736: Microchip PolarFire SoC Icicle Kit

Conor, Sebastian and Guenter, are you still using the Microchip
PolarFire SoC Icicle Kit? We currently don't have a maintainer for it.
I'm tempted to deprecate it, as I thought it didn't really work
anyway, but I wasn't sure.

So is anyone using it and is anyone willing to maintain it?

>     MAINTAINERS:1792: SH4 Machines
>     MAINTAINERS:2022: Machine core
>     MAINTAINERS:2226: ACPI/HEST/GHES/ARM processor CPER
>     MAINTAINERS:2555: vhost-user-scmi
>     MAINTAINERS:2862: XIVE
>     MAINTAINERS:2872: Renesas peripherals
>     MAINTAINERS:3165: CheckPoint and Restart (CPR)
>     MAINTAINERS:3719: Checkpatch
>     MAINTAINERS:3746: RDMA Migration
>     MAINTAINERS:3894: Record/replay
>     MAINTAINERS:4029: OpenSBI Firmware

I'll pickup this one

Alistair

Re: MAINTAINERS entries that aren't S: Orphan but maybe should be

[Sebastian Huber]

Dear Alistair,

----- Am 7. Mai 2026 um 1:40 schrieb Alistair Francis alistair23@gmail.com:

> On Wed, May 6, 2026 at 10:03 PM Markus Armbruster <armbru@redhat.com> wrote:
>>
>> I'm cc'ing reviewers and lists mentioned below, and frequent
>> contributors to MAINTAINERS.
>>
>> There are a number of MAINTAINERS entries with S: other than "Orphan"
>> without M:
>>
>>     $ awk '/^M: / { m++ } /^S: / { s=$2 } /^$/ && s { if (!m && s != "Orphan") print
>>     t; m=0; s=""; getline; t=FILENAME ":" FNR ": " $0; next }' MAINTAINERS
>>     MAINTAINERS:1736: Microchip PolarFire SoC Icicle Kit
> 
> Conor, Sebastian and Guenter, are you still using the Microchip
> PolarFire SoC Icicle Kit? We currently don't have a maintainer for it.
> I'm tempted to deprecate it, as I thought it didn't really work
> anyway, but I wasn't sure.

the Microchip PolarFire SoC Icicle Kit machine works great for running bare metal / simple OS test suites.

> 
> So is anyone using it and is anyone willing to maintain it?

I follow the Qemu development. If something breaks the machine, I would try to fix it. However, I have am quite busy with all sorts of things so getting any kind of service and timing guarantees from my side is not possible. For example, I was still not able to have a look at the Linux command line regression.

Kind regards,
Sebastian

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Re: MAINTAINERS entries that aren't S: Orphan but maybe should be

[Guenter Roeck]

On 5/6/26 16:40, Alistair Francis wrote:
> On Wed, May 6, 2026 at 10:03 PM Markus Armbruster <armbru@redhat.com> wrote:
>>
>> I'm cc'ing reviewers and lists mentioned below, and frequent
>> contributors to MAINTAINERS.
>>
>> There are a number of MAINTAINERS entries with S: other than "Orphan"
>> without M:
>>
>>      $ awk '/^M: / { m++ } /^S: / { s=$2 } /^$/ && s { if (!m && s != "Orphan") print t; m=0; s=""; getline; t=FILENAME ":" FNR ": " $0; next }' MAINTAINERS
>>      MAINTAINERS:1736: Microchip PolarFire SoC Icicle Kit
> 
> Conor, Sebastian and Guenter, are you still using the Microchip
> PolarFire SoC Icicle Kit? We currently don't have a maintainer for it.
> I'm tempted to deprecate it, as I thought it didn't really work
> anyway, but I wasn't sure.
> 
All I do is to run a couple of Linux kernel boot tests with it.
The idea is to test the Linux kernel, not the qemu emulation.
I neither have time to maintain this, nor the hardware to
cross-check it. It is ok with me to deprecate it, even more so
if it doesn't work well.

Oh, and I just noticed that I carry a downstream patch to make it
boot with Linux without backtraces. Ultimately that suggests that
no one but me is really using it. Another reason to deprecate it.

Thanks,
Guenter

> So is anyone using it and is anyone willing to maintain it?
> 
>>      MAINTAINERS:1792: SH4 Machines
>>      MAINTAINERS:2022: Machine core
>>      MAINTAINERS:2226: ACPI/HEST/GHES/ARM processor CPER
>>      MAINTAINERS:2555: vhost-user-scmi
>>      MAINTAINERS:2862: XIVE
>>      MAINTAINERS:2872: Renesas peripherals
>>      MAINTAINERS:3165: CheckPoint and Restart (CPR)
>>      MAINTAINERS:3719: Checkpatch
>>      MAINTAINERS:3746: RDMA Migration
>>      MAINTAINERS:3894: Record/replay
>>      MAINTAINERS:4029: OpenSBI Firmware
> 
> I'll pickup this one
> 
> Alistair

Re: MAINTAINERS entries that aren't S: Orphan but maybe should be

[Conor Dooley]

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On Thu, May 07, 2026 at 09:40:55AM +1000, Alistair Francis wrote:
> On Wed, May 6, 2026 at 10:03 PM Markus Armbruster <armbru@redhat.com> wrote:
> >
> > I'm cc'ing reviewers and lists mentioned below, and frequent
> > contributors to MAINTAINERS.
> >
> > There are a number of MAINTAINERS entries with S: other than "Orphan"
> > without M:
> >
> >     $ awk '/^M: / { m++ } /^S: / { s=$2 } /^$/ && s { if (!m && s != "Orphan") print t; m=0; s=""; getline; t=FILENAME ":" FNR ": " $0; next }' MAINTAINERS
> >     MAINTAINERS:1736: Microchip PolarFire SoC Icicle Kit
> 
> Conor, Sebastian and Guenter, are you still using the Microchip
> PolarFire SoC Icicle Kit? We currently don't have a maintainer for it.
> I'm tempted to deprecate it, as I thought it didn't really work
> anyway, but I wasn't sure.

I use it occasionally, and if it was to actually break to the point that
it cannot boot a kernel I would fix it. You're right that it doesn't
work properly though, the board's actual boot flow cannot be run on the
emulation available in qemu.

I could be an Odd fixes reviewer, but I have never found the time to
actually go fix that problem or add any of the peripherals that are not
mandatory to boot a kernel, so anything more than that isn't realistic.

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Re: MAINTAINERS entries that aren't S: Orphan but maybe should be

[Chao Liu]

Hi Markus,

On Wed, May 06, 2026 at 02:01:46PM +0200, Markus Armbruster wrote:
> I'm cc'ing reviewers and lists mentioned below, and frequent
> contributors to MAINTAINERS.
> 
[...]
> Likewise.  Volunteers?
> 
> These have neither:
> 
>     MAINTAINERS:3719: Checkpatch
>     S: Odd Fixes
I'm interested in this module and have experience in the area. Happy to
help review. checkpatch.pl is already quite stable, so it won't add much
overhead.

Thanks,
Chao
> 
>     MAINTAINERS:4153: SPARC TCG target
>     S: Odd Fixes
> 
> Unless somebody steps up to server as M: or at least R:, we should
> downgrade to S: Orphan.  Volunteers?
> 
> 

Re: MAINTAINERS entries that aren't S: Orphan but maybe should be

[Markus Armbruster]

I'm going to collect MAINTAINERS patches.  So far:

MAINTAINERS: Add myself as maintainer for replication
MAINTAINERS: Rename Replication -> COLO block replication
MAINTAINERS: add self as reviewer for PowerNV and PPC TCG
MAINTAINERS: Add Doru Blânzeanu as MSHV reviewer
MAINTAINERS: update HEST maintainership entries
MAINTAINERS: Maintain OpenSBI Firmware

Re: MAINTAINERS entries that aren't S: Orphan but maybe should be

[Philippe Mathieu-Daudé]

On 6/5/26 14:01, Markus Armbruster wrote:
> I'm cc'ing reviewers and lists mentioned below, and frequent
> contributors to MAINTAINERS.
> 
> There are a number of MAINTAINERS entries with S: other than "Orphan"
> without M:

...

> Unless somebody steps up to server as M: or at least R:, we should
> downgrade to S: Orphan.  Volunteers?

'Network device backends' (net/), 'eBPF' (ebpf/) and 'Network devices'
(hw/net/) patches are left unattented on the list since 6 weeks, all
maintained by Jason (first 2 listed as 'Maintained', last one as 'Odd
Fixes'). These sections don't have co-maintainers. Shoud we be worried?

Re: MAINTAINERS entries that aren't S: Orphan but maybe should be

[Jason Wang]

On Wed, May 13, 2026 at 3:11 PM Philippe Mathieu-Daudé
<philmd@linaro.org> wrote:
>
> On 6/5/26 14:01, Markus Armbruster wrote:
> > I'm cc'ing reviewers and lists mentioned below, and frequent
> > contributors to MAINTAINERS.
> >
> > There are a number of MAINTAINERS entries with S: other than "Orphan"
> > without M:
>
> ...
>
> > Unless somebody steps up to server as M: or at least R:, we should
> > downgrade to S: Orphan.  Volunteers?
>
> 'Network device backends' (net/), 'eBPF' (ebpf/) and 'Network devices'
> (hw/net/) patches are left unattented on the list since 6 weeks, all
> maintained by Jason (first 2 listed as 'Maintained', last one as 'Odd
> Fixes'). These sections don't have co-maintainers. Shoud we be worried?

It should not be. I will wrap things up soon and will continue the
role as maintainer.

Apologies for the late reply.

Thanks

>

Re: MAINTAINERS entries that aren't S: Orphan but maybe should be

[Philippe Mathieu-Daudé]

On 13/5/26 10:38, Jason Wang wrote:
> On Wed, May 13, 2026 at 3:11 PM Philippe Mathieu-Daudé
> <philmd@linaro.org> wrote:
>>
>> On 6/5/26 14:01, Markus Armbruster wrote:
>>> I'm cc'ing reviewers and lists mentioned below, and frequent
>>> contributors to MAINTAINERS.
>>>
>>> There are a number of MAINTAINERS entries with S: other than "Orphan"
>>> without M:
>>
>> ...
>>
>>> Unless somebody steps up to server as M: or at least R:, we should
>>> downgrade to S: Orphan.  Volunteers?
>>
>> 'Network device backends' (net/), 'eBPF' (ebpf/) and 'Network devices'
>> (hw/net/) patches are left unattented on the list since 6 weeks, all
>> maintained by Jason (first 2 listed as 'Maintained', last one as 'Odd
>> Fixes'). These sections don't have co-maintainers. Shoud we be worried?
> 
> It should not be. I will wrap things up soon and will continue the
> role as maintainer.

Nice to hear you are well Jason! I'm reassured :)