Re: MAINTAINERS: macOS host support (was: MAINTAINERS: take edk2)

[Christian Schoenebeck]

On Mittwoch, 9. März 2022 11:05:02 CET Philippe Mathieu-Daudé wrote:
> On 9/3/22 09:16, Gerd Hoffmann wrote:
> > On Tue, Mar 08, 2022 at 04:08:40PM +0100, Philippe Mathieu-Daudé wrote:
> >>> diff --git a/MAINTAINERS b/MAINTAINERS
> >>> index 68adaac373c7..ad1c9a7ea133 100644
> >>> --- a/MAINTAINERS
> >>> +++ b/MAINTAINERS
> >>> @@ -3144,7 +3144,7 @@ F: docs/interop/firmware.json
> >>> 
> >>>    EDK2 Firmware
> >>>    M: Philippe Mathieu-Daudé <f4bug@amsat.org>
> >>> 
> >>> -R: Gerd Hoffmann <kraxel@redhat.com>
> >>> +M: Gerd Hoffmann <kraxel@redhat.com>
> >> 
> >> Thanks :)
> > 
> > Any chance you can take over the macos support bits in return?
> 
> I suppose you mean the "Core Audio framework backend" section?
> 
> There is indeed a need for macOS host support maintenance, as patches
> hang on the list until Peter finally takes them via the arm tree.

Most of them are macOS UI patches I think. There are not many CoreAudio 
patches coming in.

> Not sure what you have in mind. I'm totally new to the macOS/Darwin
> world, and have no choice but to use it as primary workstation and
> for CI builds, so I can help with overall testing / maintenance.
> 
> Peter, since you take some macOS patches, would you like to maintain
> this officially? Since I doubt you want to take yet another
> responsibility, what about having a co-maintained section, including
> technical expertise from Akihiko / Joelle / Christian? (Cc'ed)
> 
> Regards,

Also CCing Cameron on this, just in case someone at Apple could spend some 
slices on QEMU macOS patches in general as well.

As for my part: I try to help out more on the macOS front. As there's now 
macOS host support for 9p I have to start QEMU testing on macOS locally 
anyway. Too bad that macOS CI tests on Github are no longer available BTW.

Best regards,
Christian Schoenebeck