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From: Anthony Liguori <anthony@codemonkey.ws>
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Subject: Re: [Qemu-devel] Unclear committer situation
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To: Blue Swirl <blauwirbel@gmail.com>
Cc: Alexander Graf <agraf@suse.de>, qemu-devel@nongnu.org

Blue Swirl wrote:
>>> Of course, my main unclear subsystems are PPC and S390.
>>>
>>> I'd recommend the following committers:
>>>
>>> PPC: Blue Swirl
>>> S390: Aurelien
>>>
>>> If you have other subsystems you feel uncertain on responsibilities,
>>> please add them to the list incl. committer recommendation.
>>>       
>> PPC is tough because we lost our previous maintainer.  It's generally in
>> pretty bad shape.  No one really has stepped up to seriously improve it
>> either.
>>     
>
> The design approach was often different from other architectures,
> which makes things like qdev conversion less trivial (see macio.c).
> Otherwise IMHO the situation has improved a lot, we even have a
> working BIOS. Only PREP has rotten.
>   
Oh, no doubt.  I didn't mean to minimize the work that's gone into it.  
It's much better than it was a year ago.

Regards,

Anthony Liguori