Re: [PATCH] MAINTAINERS: Add a TILE-Gx section

[Philippe Mathieu-Daudé]

On 10/12/19 2:40 PM, Aleksandar Markovic wrote:
> 12.10.2019. 09.12, "Philippe Mathieu-Daudé" <address@hidden 
> <mailto:address@hidden>> је написао/ла:
>  >
>  > The TILE-Gx architecture was missing its section, add it.
>  >
>  > Signed-off-by: Philippe Mathieu-Daudé <address@hidden 
> <mailto:address@hidden>>
>  > ---
>  >  MAINTAINERS | 5 +++++
>  >  1 file changed, 5 insertions(+)
>  >
>
> It is certainly good that there is a maintainer for each QEMU component. 
> But:
>
> - is Chen Gang available and willing to assume the role?

One month passed, so we can assume this architecture is orphan.
I'll prepare a patch.

> - sadly, tilegx arch support was recently removed from kernel upstream. 
> That does not mean (in my understanding) automatic removal from QEMU, 
> but certainly raises some eyebrows. Should we continue supporting 
> tilegx? Isthete any feedback from users, or the company that owns tilegx?

We should properly deprecate it, to give any users a chance to notice it 
and tell us. I'll prepare another patch.

> Sincerely,
> Aleksandar
>
>  > diff --git a/MAINTAINERS b/MAINTAINERS
>  > index 3ca814850e..a3be0a4a31 100644
>  > --- a/MAINTAINERS
>  > +++ b/MAINTAINERS
>  > @@ -299,6 +299,11 @@ F: hw/sparc64/
>  >  F: include/hw/sparc/sparc64.h
>  >  F: disas/sparc.c
>  >
>  > +TILE-Gx CPUs
>  > +M: Chen Gang <address@hidden 
> <mailto:address@hidden>>
>  > +S: Maintained
>  > +F: target/tilegx/
>  > +
>  >  UniCore32 TCG CPUs
>  >  M: Guan Xuetao <address@hidden <mailto:address@hidden>>
>  >  S: Maintained
>  > --
>  > 2.21.0
>  >
>  >