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Date: Sun, 13 May 2007 17:26:13 -0700
From: "H. Peter Anvin" <hpa@zytor.com>
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To: Dave Jones <davej@redhat.com>, "H. Peter Anvin" <hpa@zytor.com>,
       Linux Kernel <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>,
       Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>,
       Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>, Riley@Williams.Name
Subject: Re: MAINTAINERS update.
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Dave Jones wrote:
> 
> That previous entry of MAINTAINERS raised an eyebrow too.
> You, Eric, Andi, and Zach seem to have done more work on 'i386 BOOT CODE'
> in the last few months than I recall Riley doing, well.. since ages.
> Not to belittle whatever work he did, but perhaps his entry belongs
> more in CREDITS than MAINTAINERS.  It felt a little cheeky to be
> messing with someone elses entry though.  Riley?
> 

Riley passed away about a month ago (traffic accident.)

Anyway I have a patch to take over maintainership of that as part of my
rewrite of said code:

http://git.kernel.org/?p=linux/kernel/git/hpa/linux-2.6-newsetup.git;a=summary

> Perhaps those two entries should just be merged together to become
> "i386 Architecture" too ?

That would not be a bad idea; overall, though, I think a lot more code
should be unified across the entire x86 architecture.

	-hpa
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