The affected drivers: gud, mi0283qt, panel-mipi-dbi and repaper, plus the FBTFT frame-buffer drivers.
So this does not affect the drivers for mainstream PC graphics cards, but drivers for embedded devices. However, that also means that the drivers are inherently more niche and harder to find maintainers for. I hope they will find a new maintainer.
Well, mainly this will need a person sufficiently experienced with kernel development to take maintainership duties. And I do not know how much work beyond routine maintenance is needed on those drivers. If people are missing some features in the driver that the hardware supports, someone needs to work on implementing those. But I do not know whether there are any such missing features here. And obviously, whenever new hardware based on the same technologies comes out, the driver will need to be updated for that hardware.
Uh, no? Most things on your typical Linux desktop are not developed on GitHub. The Linux kernel doesn't use GitHub. GNU doesn't use GitHub. FreeDesktop doesn't use GitHub. GNOME doesn't use GitHub. KDE doesn't use GitHub.
And in any case, there’s nothing wrong with something coming from GitHub, it’s quite literally a place where you can publish your software and all of the revisions it has gone through
It's sad to see people suffer from these kinds of health issues to be honest...
What does usually go on the process of maintaining such drivers like these?
Someone that also, for some reason, have the same skillset that the guy start submitting patches and updates and that is it. Considering he was a lone wolf for so long i doubt we will find someone to take his place that fast. There is a chance that this project just goes unmaintained for years until someone comes.
Wish him the best. It's so odd to me that the entire Open Source infrastructure, used by so many, is often maintained by lone enthusiasts. The Linux Foundation should step in and do something about this (unless they already are).
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