Re: [PATCH] arm64: dts: microchip: add missing cache properties

[Nicolas Ferre]

On 17/05/2023 at 14:58, Conor Dooley wrote:
> On Wed, May 17, 2023 at 02:46:38PM +0200, Steen Hegelund wrote:
> > On Wed, 2023-05-17 at 13:37 +0100, Conor Dooley wrote:
> > > On Wed, May 17, 2023 at 02:10:53PM +0200, Krzysztof Kozlowski wrote:
>
> > > > For future (and all previous patches), please think what do you
> > > > (you=Microchip) want to do with it. If you do not handle the patches,
> > > > then someone should or the platform should be marked as "Odd fixes".
> > >
> > > If noone is set up to actually be the maintainer of the tree, and the
> > > patch volume is low, it might be a good idea to combine its maintenance
> > > with some of the other microchip trees.
> > >
> > > I've added Nicolas to CC here, since he is the main maintainer for the
> > > 32-bit ARM Microchip stuff. For some context, I maintain the RISC-V
> > > Microchip bits and a few other things like dt-bindings and some
> > > non-microchip RISC-V platforms.
> > >
> > > If you like, I could easily pick up patches for
> > > arch/arm64/boot/dts/microchip/* as I am already sending PRs to Arnd for
> > > other trees and another branch would not be much overhead!
> > >
> > > Clearly I do not know the hardware at all, and reviewing the patches
> > > would still be up to you, but I could handle the "administrative" side
> > > of things (applying the patches & sending PRs) if that would be helpful?
> > >
> > > Otherwise, Nicolas & I could probably help you through setting things up
> > > to send PRs without taking up Krzysztof's time?
> > >
> > > Either works for me!
> >
> > It would be preferable for me if you (Conor) would handle the
> > arch/arm64/boot/dts/microchip/* tree as you suggested.  It is not often we
> > update it, so it will hopefully be low overhead for you.
>
> Okay. I will send a patch for MAINTAINERS then - although I'll give
> Nicolas a change to look at it this thread first ;)

Yes, sure thing that I can be added as maintainer of the arm64 part of 
Microchip, you can add me to a MAINTAINERS entry taking care of this and 
use our group git tree for this purpose, we'll add branches for that.

> If the mpu32 guys ever decide to become mpu64 then we can perhaps
> re-visit things.
>
> > Thanks to both of you for the assistance.
>
> No worries chief.

Thanks Conor for the heads-up. Best regards,
  Nicolas

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Nicolas Ferre