From: Icenowy Zheng <zhengxingda@iscas.ac.cn>
To: Jianmin Lv <lvjianmin@loongson.cn>,
Thomas Zimmermann <tzimmermann@suse.de>,
David Airlie <airlied@gmail.com>,
Simona Vetter <simona@ffwll.ch>,
Maarten Lankhorst <maarten.lankhorst@linux.intel.com>,
Maxime Ripard <mripard@kernel.org>,
Qianhai Wu <wuqianhai@loongson.cn>,
Mingcong Bai <jeffbai@aosc.io>, Xi Ruoyao <xry111@xry111.site>,
Huacai Chen <chenhuacai@kernel.org>
Cc: Xuefeng Li <lixuefeng@loongson.cn>,
dri-devel@lists.freedesktop.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH v2] MAINTAINERS: Update GPU driver maintainer information
Date: Thu, 19 Mar 2026 21:55:00 +0800 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <2c40f4c40da3a5bdf66bb22f75e41b8ca1ab4934.camel@iscas.ac.cn> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <8c04428b-dd00-c3d2-b3b1-56fd94b26b04@loongson.cn>
在 2026-03-19四的 21:08 +0800,Jianmin Lv写道:
>
>
> On 2026/3/19 下午4:51, Icenowy Zheng wrote:
> > 在 2026-03-19四的 08:54 +0100,Thomas Zimmermann写道:
> > > Hi
> > >
> > > Am 18.03.26 um 10:23 schrieb Jianmin Lv:
> > > > I and Qianhai are GPU R&D engineers at Loongson, specializing
> > > > in kernel driver development. We understand that the current
> > > > Loongson GPU driver lacks dedicated maintenance resources
> > > > because of some reasons.
> > > >
> > > > As Loongson GPU driver developers, we have both the capability
> > > > and the responsibility to continuously maintain the Loongson
> > > > GPU driver, ensuring minimal impact on its users. After
> > > > internal
> > > > discussions, our team has decided to recommend me and Qianhai
> > > > to take over the maintenance responsibilities, and recommend
> > > > Huacai, Mingcong and Ruoyao to help to review.
> > > >
> > > > And We'll continue to maintain it for current supported chips
> > > > and drive future updates according to chip support plan.
> > >
> > > Welcome and thanks for helping out.
> > >
> > > Yesterday, Icenowy Zheng also volunteered to help with the
> > > driver. If
> > > she's still interested, I think you should both co-maintain the
> > > driver.
> >
> > I am still interested, especially for MIPS-based Loongson systems.
> > I'm
> > okay to act either as a co-maintainer or a reviewer, and let
> > Loongson
> > folks to decide it.
>
> Hi,Icenowy
>
> Thanks for willing to join us co-working the driver,and I'll add you
> as
> reviewer in v3 patch, expecting a pleasant cooperation.
>
> BTW, it will help me to look into and reply your patch if you can CC
> me,
> thanks.
Well I will send a respin of this patch in this weekend.
Thanks,
Icenowy
>
> https://lore.kernel.org/dri-devel/c6013f25-fce0-41ba-a275-96188a6647c1@suse.de/T/#t
>
> >
> > > Icenowy is already active in the maintenance of other DRM drivers
> > > and
> > > can certainly do good work here as well.
> > >
> > > Best regards
> > > Thomas
> > >
> > > >
> > > > Signed-off-by: Jianmin Lv <lvjianmin@loongson.cn>
> > > >
> > > > diff --git a/MAINTAINERS b/MAINTAINERS
> > > > index 96ea84948d76..4232039b7282 100644
> > > > --- a/MAINTAINERS
> > > > +++ b/MAINTAINERS
> > > > @@ -8626,8 +8626,13 @@ F: drivers/gpu/drm/lima/
> > > > F: include/uapi/drm/lima_drm.h
> > > >
> > > > DRM DRIVERS FOR LOONGSON
> > > > +M: Jianmin Lv <lvjianmin@loongson.cn>
> > > > +M: Qianhai Wu <wuqianhai@loongson.cn>
> > > > +R: Huacai Chen <chenhuacai@kernel.org>
> > > > +R: Mingcong Bai <jeffbai@aosc.io>
> > > > +R: Xi Ruoyao <xry111@xry111.site>
> > > > L: dri-devel@lists.freedesktop.org
> > > > -S: Orphan
> > > > +S: Maintained
> >
> > By the way, previously when Sui Jingfeng is in charge of this
> > driver,
> > the status is "Supported" instead of "Maintained". Does this change
> > show any difference on Loongson's attitude towards this driver?
> >
> > Thanks,
> > Icenowy
> >
> > > > T: git https://gitlab.freedesktop.org/drm/misc/kernel.git
> > > > F: drivers/gpu/drm/loongson/
> > > >
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2026-03-19 13:55 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 10+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2026-03-18 9:23 Jianmin Lv
2026-03-18 9:35 ` Mingcong Bai
2026-03-18 9:42 ` Huacai Chen
2026-03-19 1:58 ` Jianmin Lv
2026-03-19 2:05 ` wuqianhai
2026-03-19 7:54 ` Thomas Zimmermann
2026-03-19 8:51 ` Icenowy Zheng
2026-03-19 13:08 ` Jianmin Lv
2026-03-19 13:55 ` Icenowy Zheng [this message]
2026-03-19 13:02 ` Jianmin Lv
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