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

[Sebastian Huber <sebastian.huber@embedded-brains.de>]

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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