Re: [dmidecode] Alternative arch support

[Jean Delvare]

Hi Petter,

Le Monday 06 October 2014 à 15:46 +0200, Petter Reinholdtsen a écrit :
> [Sam Kottler]
> > Greetings,
> >
> > I'm the maintainer of a few pieces of software in Fedora which rely quite
> > heavily on dmidecode to function properly. Would you all consider accepting
> > patches to support aarch64 & ppc64 (little endian)?
> 
> Hi.  The current issue at hand is lack of people with time and interest
> in maintaining the upstream project of dmidecode.

On which facts is this claim based, please?

Anton is maintaining dmidecode, and he is doing a great job. This is a
relatively low volume effort from my own experience, having maintained
the project for 7 years before Anton took over. And I am still around
too, replying on the list, contributing fixes and working on bug
reports. There are no bugs left open and as far as I can remember, all
questions on the mailing list were answered.

So I do not understand where you see any problem.

> Perhaps you can join the project and apply them yourself?

... which doesn't mean we do not welcome new contributors. We definitely
do :-)

-- 
Jean Delvare
SUSE L3 Support