On 5/28/20 12:55 AM, John Paul Adrian Glaubitz wrote: > On 5/28/20 7:46 AM, Christoph Hellwig wrote: >> [adding Linus] >> >> On Thu, May 07, 2020 at 07:35:52AM -0700, Christoph Hellwig wrote: >>> Any progress on this? I plan to resend the sh dma-mapping I've been >>> trying to get upstream for a year again, and they would conflict, >>> so I could look into rebasing them first. >> >> So for years now it has been close to and in the end impossible to >> provoke sh maintainer action. At the same point hardware is pretty much >> long gone for the real commercial variants, and never took off for the >> open hardware nommu variant. >> >> Linus, would you ok with a 5.8 pull request to just kill off arch/sh/? > > We're maintaining SH in Debian so I'm interested in keeping arch/sh, but > I'm also let down that SH maintainers aren't that active at the moment. > > I do know that Yoshinori Sato has a tree where he takes patches and sends > PRs from time to time, but I have no idea what is going on.
There are still people who care about the architecture and try to get fixes in: https://www.spinics.net/lists/linux-sh/msg56844.html Alas, I haven't had better luck getting Rich's attention, and I say that as someone who has his phone number. It met Sato-san for lunch once years ago, but he lives in Tokyo and english is not his first language. I was under the impression he became co-maintainer to show Rich the ropes of maintainership and to answer obscure architectural questions, not because he was volunteering for significantly more work. Rich was supposed to be load bearing. I don't really have the domain expertise to do it myself... :( Rob