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  • Re: Inquiry About Submitting Chip Support Patches for Debian Kernel

    From Bastian Blank@21:1/5 to whoami on Wed Jun 4 10:50:01 2025
    Hi

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    On Sun, May 18, 2025 at 02:47:31AM +0800, whoami wrote:
    We believe this approach would benefit both our internal development
    workflow and Debian users who may use our hardware. Please let us know
    if this is something Debian would consider.

    Our normal policy is: patches needs to be in
    - linus tree,
    - linux-next, or
    - similar.

    We talked about this and came to the conclusion that we can not accept especially larger in development patch sets for inclusion into the main
    Debian kernel. So no, we won't consider doing that.

    Thank you for your time and consideration. We greatly appreciate the
    work the Debian community does and would be happy to collaborate
    further to ensure smooth integration.

    What we might be able to do give you guidance how to build your own
    kernels semi-automatically using the existing tooling the Debian kernel provides.

    Bastian

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  • From whoami@1:229/2 to All on Sat May 17 21:10:01 2025
    From: herelyym@gmail.com

    Dear Debian Kernel Team,

    I am a developer at CIX technology company, an ARM chip manufacturer.
    We are actively using Debian as our default development system
    internally and are committed to ensuring our chipset is well-supported
    in the Linux ecosystem.

    We have been working on patches to add support for our chipset in the
    Linux kernel and are in the process of upstreaming these changes to
    the mainline kernel. However, as upstreaming can take time, we would
    like to inquire whether Debian would be open to accepting these
    patches into the Debian kernel in the interim.

    Our goal is to:

    Submit our chip support patches to the Debian kernel, ensuring better out-of-the-box compatibility for users.

    Continue working to get these patches merged into the mainline Linux kernel.

    Once the patches are accepted upstream, remove the redundant patches
    from the Debian kernel to align with the mainline code.

    We believe this approach would benefit both our internal development
    workflow and Debian users who may use our hardware. Please let us know
    if this is something Debian would consider.

    Thank you for your time and consideration. We greatly appreciate the
    work the Debian community does and would be happy to collaborate
    further to ensure smooth integration.

    Looking forward to your response.

    Best regards,

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