16 Jan
2023
16 Jan
'23
8:14 a.m.
On Fri, Jan 13, 2023 at 09:26:23AM +0100, Geert Uytterhoeven wrote:
Indeed. The main issue is not the lack of people sending patches and fixes, but those patches never being applied by the maintainers. Perhaps someone is willing to stand up to take over maintainership?
The other problem is that it hasn't a DT conversion, and there are lot of crufty platforms, and crufty hooks in various drivers and core code.
It's been mentioned a few times that it might be time to go to a minimal DT only port and then regrow what people are actually using, but for that we need indiciations of what people are actually using.
And yes, it does need a proper maintainer, and some actual maintainer option like cutting down unused machine support.