Re: [Qemu-devel] [PATCH] MAINTAINERS: Adopt the Gumstix computers-on-module machines

[Thomas Huth <thuth@redhat.com>]

On 22.06.2018 15:30, Philippe Mathieu-Daudé wrote:
> Hi Peter,
> 
> On 06/06/2018 12:02 PM, Philippe Mathieu-Daudé wrote:
>> On 06/06/2018 11:53 AM, Thomas Huth wrote:
>>> On 06.06.2018 16:47, Philippe Mathieu-Daudé wrote:
>>>> These COMs are hard to find, and the companie dropped the support
>>
>> "company" :/
>>
>>>> few years ago.
>>>>
>>>> Per the "Gumstix Product Changes, Known Issues, and EOL" pdf:
>>>>
>>>> - Phasing out: PXA270-based Verdex product line
>>>>   September 2012
>>>>
>>>> - Phasing out: PXA255-based Basix & Connex
>>>>   September 2009
>>>>
>>>> However there are still booting SD card image availables, very
>>>> convenient to stress test the QEMU SD card implementation.
>>>> Therefore I volunteer to keep an eye on this file, while it
>>>> is useful for testing.
>>>>
>>>> Signed-off-by: Philippe Mathieu-Daudé <f4bug@amsat.org>
>>>> ---
>>>>  MAINTAINERS | 3 ++-
>>>>  1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)
>>>>
>>>> diff --git a/MAINTAINERS b/MAINTAINERS
>>>> index 41cd3736a9..1825deb762 100644
>>>> --- a/MAINTAINERS
>>>> +++ b/MAINTAINERS
>>>> @@ -491,9 +491,10 @@ F: include/hw/arm/digic.h
>>>>  F: hw/*/digic*
>>>>  
>>>>  Gumstix
>>>> +M: Philippe Mathieu-Daudé <f4bug@amsat.org>
>>>>  L: qemu-devel@nongnu.org
>>>>  L: qemu-arm@nongnu.org
>>>> -S: Orphan
>>>> +S: Odd Fixes
>>>>  F: hw/arm/gumstix.c
>>>
>>> Great! So we can also remove the Gumstix entries from
>>> https://wiki.qemu.org/Features/LegacyRemoval ?
>>
>> I'll remove these now, eventually adding a new Gumstix COMs
>> wiki entry when Avocados tests are merged, although reading
>> the tests should be enough.
> 
> Do you agree with this patch?

FWIW:

Reviewed-by: Thomas Huth <thuth@redhat.com>

> This is mostly to avoid removing these 2 boards in 2 releases from now.

As long as they are not listed in the "deprecation" chapter of
qemu-doc.texi, they are *not* officially marked as deprecated and thus
won't get removed in two releases.

> I already removed them from the "Future deprecated candidates" entry in
> the Wiki.

Ok, thanks!

 Thomas