Re: [PATCH v5 0/2] RTC support for QEMU RISC-V virt machine

[Alistair Francis <alistair23@gmail.com>]

On Sat, Nov 2, 2019 at 3:37 AM Peter Maydell <peter.maydell@linaro.org> wrote:
>
> On Tue, 29 Oct 2019 at 13:25, Alistair Francis <alistair23@gmail.com> wrote:
> >
> > On Fri, Oct 25, 2019 at 6:28 AM Anup Patel <Anup.Patel@wdc.com> wrote:
> > >
> > > This series adds RTC device to QEMU RISC-V virt machine. We have
> > > selected Goldfish RTC device model for this. It's a pretty simple
> > > synthetic device with few MMIO registers and no dependency external
> > > clock. The driver for Goldfish RTC is already available in Linux so
> > > we just need to enable it in Kconfig for RISCV and also update Linux
> > > defconfigs.
> > >
> > > We have tested this series with Linux-5.4-rc4 plus defconfig changes
> > > available in 'goldfish_rtc_v2' branch of:
> > > https://github.com/avpatel/linux.git
> >
> > @Peter Maydell this has been reviewed, do you mind taking this in you
> > next PR? I don't see a maintainer for hw/rtc.
>
> Generally devices used by a single architecture should
> go via the tree of the maintainer who handles that
> architecture -- in this case that's riscv. (The reason
> is that it's only riscv folks who can test whether the
> device works in the machine model, and only riscv
> folks who can reasonably review whether the device
> is the right way of implementing the functionality for
> them.)

Makes sense

Alistair

>
> thanks
> -- PMM