On 26 October 2026 16:19:20 GMT, Vincent Jardin <[email protected]> wrote: >Hi, > >> Isn't that a double edged sword? >> >> I mean, since PowerPC is SO inactive that like nobody will respond, and >> it'll be limbo limbo limbo, just to merge say 24 removals and a >> maintainers patch, especially the maintainers patch, that has nothing >to do with the removals and that'll get all stuck up with the removals I >think unless you have other plans, which is annoyance, because it is "oh >so inactive" >> >> And I also made a additional maintainers patch that IDK where it will >go!! >> Either to my custodian tree (p,s: maintainers patch isn't merged yet!!) >> >> Or to another tree, yeah, odd, hm? >> >> (Sorry, I had a small vent, :c) > >I would not drop PPCs so quickly ; there are still many systems running >PPCs >even if folks are more in "don't touch things that work", I feel it'll >change >withint the upcoming months because of the scale of CVEs of those old >systems >and some new regulations in EU. Let's wait/watch, maybe one more year, >before dropping. > >It seems long, but looking backward EU regulations will start to be >effective only >by end of 2027 and LLM -> explode of new CVEs are just starting... >so the mindset of "don't touch, it works", it'll have to change.
Yeah, I removed so many systems because it was 1: EOL, 2: Old, unmaintained rubbish (well, some of them) But my concern is the one patch that has nothing to do with it. 26/26, the maintainers patch, I already got a tree and stuff, but I wouldn't know if like it'll A: get merged when they merge your fixes Or B: Merge when the removals get merged :( I'd prefer A personally, because of the fact that the patch has nothing to do with it. If that makes sense. Id personally think a cleanup is more than due for this, I have millads more cleanups to do when my maintainers patch gets merged, PowerPC as I see it at the moment is in a slight disarray, well, it works, but it needs to be cleaned and organised a bit. Id say 19+ more patches would be required in order to make this actually clean ISH. Because for 1: power(8,9,10) isn't even implemented yet! What!? Well, I'm not sure about that being a priority because for 1: it can be booted thru LPAR. Which, is odd. (Thanks IBM! :c) Personally, PowerPC needs a nice dustpan and brush across before it could be classed as an actually clean architecture subsystem! And god forbid the bugs. Somebody with a AI will be having a field day covering their ears going "la la la la bugs", because I can see bugs all over the place! But thank god people still use ppc on u-boot, and for anybody reading this using u-boot on their PowerPC as we speak, thank you so much for using it, and me, as a maintainer(tm) and the whole community sends our unreserved thanks for your use of it. > >my 2 cents, > Vincent --- Thanks!
