Re: [PATCH RFC 12/12] MAINTAINERS: Add Bouffalo Lab BL808 support

[Conor Dooley]

On Fri, Oct 30, 2026 at 07:44:36AM -0400, Kwanghoon Son wrote:
> On Thu, Oct 29, 2026 at 07:20:41PM +0000, Conor Dooley wrote:
> > On Thu, Oct 29, 2026 at 07:08:56PM +0000, Conor Dooley wrote:
> > > On Thu, Oct 29, 2026 at 01:05:53AM -0400, Kwanghoon Son wrote:
> > > > Add a MAINTAINERS entry for the Bouffalo Lab BL808 platform, device trees
> > > > and Rust serial driver and abstractions.
> > > > 
> > > > Signed-off-by: Kwanghoon Son <asdfkwang@xxxxxxxxx>
> > > > ---
> > > >  MAINTAINERS | 13 +++++++++++++
> > > >  1 file changed, 13 insertions(+)
> > > > 
> > > > diff --git a/MAINTAINERS b/MAINTAINERS
> > > > index 801f964899ba790a8f71fe61f9b3777a494dabd5..b76d3e168468bf6139c958a81b626c73b422c0d4 100644
> > > > --- a/MAINTAINERS
> > > > +++ b/MAINTAINERS
> > > > @@ -4926,6 +4926,19 @@ S:	Maintained
> > > >  F:	Documentation/devicetree/bindings/iio/imu/bosch,bmi323.yaml
> > > >  F:	drivers/iio/imu/bmi323/
> > > >  
> > > > +BOUFFALO LAB BL808 SUPPORT
> > > > +M:	Kwanghoon Son <asdfkwang@xxxxxxxxx>
> > > > +L:	linux-riscv@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
> > > > +L:	linux-serial@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
> > > > +S:	Maintained
> > > 
> > > Missing git tree, unless you're expecting me to apply patches for the
> > > platform for you?
> 
> I added this entry after seeing checkpatch's MAINTAINERS warning,
> but made its scope too broad. I'll separate the BL808 platform support
> from the generic Rust serial abstractions in MAINTAINERS.

Okay, that's good - but that's more of a response to my comment down
below about splitting the entry, not a response to what I was asking
here about the lack of a git tree. Are you going to send the SoC
maintainers PRs for this platform or were you expecting someone else to
apply the patches for this platform (IOW, me).

> 
> > 
> > Additionally, are you actually going to add wider scale support for this
> > device? Like a clock-controller driver and the various other
> > peripherals, or is this really just a vehicle to support your rust
> > serial driver work?
> > 
> 
> Yes, I'd like to extend BL808 support beyond serial. I have local work
> on peripheral clock/reset support, pinctrl/GPIO, SPI and PWM, including
> an SPI display on the M1s Dock.
> 
> I'd like to bring those pieces upstream incrementally as they are ready!

Cool!

> 
> > > 
> > > > +F:	Documentation/devicetree/bindings/riscv/bflb.yaml
> > > > +F:	Documentation/devicetree/bindings/serial/bflb,uart.yaml
> > > > +F:	arch/riscv/boot/dts/bouffalolab/
> > > > +F:	drivers/tty/serial/bflb_uart.rs
> > > 
> > > > +F:	rust/helpers/serial.c
> > > > +F:	rust/kernel/serial.rs
> > > > +F:	rust/kernel/serial/
> > > 
> > > These should probably not be maintained under the arch support since
> > > they're not platform specific.
> > > 
> > > > +
> > > >  BPF JIT for ARC
> > > >  M:	Shahab Vahedi <list+bpf@xxxxxxxxxx>
> > > >  L:	bpf@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
> > > > 
> > > > -- 
> > > > 2.47.3
> > > > 
> > 
> > 
> 
> Thanks for review!
> 
> Best regards,
> Kwang.

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