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Subject: Re: [GIT PULL] sh updates for v6.5
From:   John Paul Adrian Glaubitz <glaubitz@physik.fu-berlin.de>
To:     Christoph Hellwig <hch@infradead.org>
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Date:   Thu, 06 Jul 2023 17:23:32 +0200
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Hi Christoph!

On Thu, 2023-07-06 at 08:16 -0700, Christoph Hellwig wrote:
> thanks for taking up the sh maintainership!

You're welcome.

> Any chance you could do an inventoy on which arch/sh/ platforms are
> currently working and maintained and which are just bitrot?
> 
> sh still has a lot of platform specific code that feels іt is rotting,
> but some of that might just have been due to the lack of active
> maintainance.

I am slowly working towards getting everything back into shape. In particular,
there is a patch set by Yoshinori Sato to convert arch/sh to device tree which
I would like to eventually get upstreamed.

However, since I am still new to kernel development, it will certainly take
me a little more time until we're there. However, there is some interest
in the community such as the J-Core people and Artur Rojek, so there are people
who are willing to help me.

> Once platform that I'm particulary interested in is dreamcast, which has
> a rather oddball block driver (gdrom) and some very odd interaction with
> the dma-mapping code.

OK, thanks for the heads-up. I cannot comment on this yet, but I have a Dreamcast
myself which I can use for testing in this case.

Adrian

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