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Subject: Re: [PATCH v3] sparc: Use shared font data
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On 11/4/23 01:53, John Paul Adrian Glaubitz wrote:
> Hi Dave,
> 
> On Sat, 2023-11-04 at 01:21 +0000, Dr. David Alan Gilbert wrote:
>> The PowerPC version of this just got merged (0ebc7feae79ac, thanks
>> Michael!), but I've not had any interest from anyone to merge
>> this SPARC version; I'd be happy to rebase and text on current
>> head if someone has an idea how to get it merged.
> 
> Since both Debian and Gentoo are still maintaining their SPARC ports, we're
> naturally interested in getting such improvements merged. However, the SPARC
> maintainer, David Miller, has been inactive for some time and I currently don't
> know what the state of his role as the maintainer is.
> 
> I will try to reach out to him to find out what the state of things is.
> 
> Thanks for your continued interest in getting this improvement in.

Hi,
I have a couple of SPARC patches that I would like to see merged also,
if you have any success:

https://lore.kernel.org/lkml/20230703230153.19421-1-rdunlap@infradead.org/
https://lore.kernel.org/lkml/20230703230202.19844-1-rdunlap@infradead.org/

thanks.
-- 
~Randy