Fwd: Re: [03: PATCH 0/5] The remaining stuff

Russell King - ARM Linux linux at arm.linux.org.uk
Mon Dec 19 05:25:20 EST 2011


On Mon, Nov 28, 2011 at 11:45:55AM +0100, Hans J. Koch wrote:
> On Thu, Nov 24, 2011 at 08:44:47PM +0000, Russell King - ARM Linux wrote:
> > As I've already implied, I'm quite prepared to break these platforms at
> > the next merge window for the greater good if there's no sign of
> > maintainers willing to help sort them out - which will then ultimately
> > result in them being deleted from mainline.
> 
> For the past 12 months, nobody was interested in Telechips (plat-tcc).
> No community, no customers, no support from Telechips. Under these
> circumstances, I am not willing to maintain this forever.
> 
> However, Harry Sievers, European distributor of Telechips, told me
> that there are persons at Telechips who are interested in having
> their stuff in mainline. He will tell them it is threatened with
> being deleted from mainline, and ask for support.
> 
> I am willing to wait until christmas for any news from Harry, and
> will then send a patch. Either one that fixes the arch as requested in
> the mail above, or one that removes the whole platform from mainline.
> My feeling is that the latter is more likely.
> 
> Russell, if that is too late for you, please let us know.

We're now less than a week away from Christmas - any news on this?
If it's going to be deleted, could I have a patch to do so please?
(You probably know better than me whether anything has been touched
outside of arch/arm for it.)

Thanks.



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