Re: [PATCH] MAINTAINERS: Mark the Nios II CPU as orphan

[Richard Henderson]

On 3/13/23 11:33, Thomas Huth wrote:
> Marek and Chris haven't been active for Nios II since years
> (the last time seems to have been in 2017), and we've got
> unhandled severe Nios II bug tickets in the bug tracker since
> a long time, so to avoid wrong expectations of people who are
> looking at the MAINTAINERS file, it's maybe best to mark the
> Nios II entry as orphan nowadays.
>
> Suggested-by: Richard Henderson <richard.henderson@linaro.org>
> Signed-off-by: Thomas Huth <thuth@redhat.com>

Reviewed-by: Richard Henderson <richard.henderson@linaro.org>


r~

> ---
>   Suggested by Richard here:
>   
> https://lore.kernel.org/qemu-devel/cb2e92b7-40bb-4975-290d-6321c5574365@linaro.org/
>   
>   And bugs like this sound like the linux-user target is in a bad shape, too:
>   https://gitlab.com/qemu-project/qemu/-/issues/261
>
>   See also:
>   https://bugs.launchpad.net/qemu/+bug/1791796 (comment 3)
>
>   ... nobody tried to fix nios2 linux-user in years, maybe we should
>   deprecate it?
>
>   MAINTAINERS | 6 +++---
>   1 file changed, 3 insertions(+), 3 deletions(-)
>
> diff --git a/MAINTAINERS b/MAINTAINERS
> index 95c957d587..9780430626 100644
> --- a/MAINTAINERS
> +++ b/MAINTAINERS
> @@ -257,9 +257,9 @@ F: docs/system/cpu-models-mips.rst.inc
>   F: tests/tcg/mips/
>   
>   NiosII TCG CPUs
> -M: Chris Wulff <crwulff@gmail.com>
> -M: Marek Vasut <marex@denx.de>
> -S: Maintained
> +R: Chris Wulff <crwulff@gmail.com>
> +R: Marek Vasut <marex@denx.de>
> +S: Orphan
>   F: target/nios2/
>   F: hw/nios2/
>   F: disas/nios2.c