Messages in this thread | | | Date | Sat, 14 Nov 2020 11:23:20 +0100 | From | Greg KH <> | Subject | Re: Re: [PATCH] drivers: rtc: retire RTC_DRV_GOLDFISH |
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On Sat, Nov 14, 2020 at 05:47:47PM +0800, Jiaxun Yang wrote: > > > 在 2020/11/14 下午4:15, Greg KH 写道: > > + qemu-riscv list and QEMU device maintainers of goldfish_rtc > > > On Sat, Nov 14, 2020 at 04:06:24PM +0800, 陈华才 wrote: > > > Hi, All, > > > > > > Goldfish RTC works well on MIPS, and QEMU RISC-V emulator use Goldfish > > > as well, so I think we should keep it in kernel. > > But does anyone actually use it for anything? Having something in qemu > > is nice, but not required if it doesn't provide something that is > > already there for other virtual devices, right? > > Hi all, > > Both QEMU MIPS loongson3-virt and riscv virt machine are using goldfish_rtc > as sole RTC > device, it have been hardcoded in QEMU for a long while and sudden drop in > kernel would > break these machines. > RTC is essential for virt machines to keep time synchronized with host. > > Given that it is the simplest RTC implementation for now, it won't give us > much maintenance > overhead. > > Thus I do think it shouldn't be retired as for now. If nobody comes in I'd > also willing to maintain > it.
Ok, can someone submit a patch to update the MAINTAINERS file for this so we know who to route issues to over time?
thanks,
greg k-h
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