Simon Glass removed from U-Boot community

From one thread[0]:

> I'm clearly against using AI for any of development or review work as it can't be fully trusted and will monopolize precious reviewers time reviewing AI code instead of reviewing legitimate contributions from individual and companies.

This attitude seems especially weird since a lot of u-boot drivers are derived from their Linux counterparts and Linux developers are making rather heavy use of AI for review[2] and development. Then again there are still a lot of kernel developers that seem to be extremely resistant to using AI for coding/review work. If anything u-boot should probably be moving closer to following Linux kernel review workflows due to the significant amount of shared code and subsystem maintainers.

I've used AI for writing both u-boot and kernel patches myself with good results and it's only going to get better over time so I think most will come around in the near future as it's clear AI tools can massively improve productivity and reduce bugs.

Funny enough I actually have at least one fairly large yet to be merged u-boot patch series where Simon Glass and some of the maintainers signing the OP were reviewing my changes in the last few weeks.[3]

[0] https://lore.kernel.org/u-boot/6c21c8d8-74c0-43bc-9249-6cc1d...

[1] https://lore.kernel.org/u-boot/6d0f3078-2ba8-474c-9a1f-481ee...

[2] https://github.com/sashiko-dev/sashiko

[3] https://lore.kernel.org/all/20261016-submit-ce-series-v2-v9-...

He "owns" it, and clearly does not want to hand it over. I paraphrase but he's not "holding the domain hostage" if he pays for it. Sounds like they are forcing him to hand it over lol.