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> Quite the opposite, somebody at AMD wanted to play along with the openness of the Linux kerne

Oh please.

No, the boss said "merge this" and the code has been developed "corporate style" (with a HAL, etc) now the "mean" kernel developers won't approve this

But the Kernel people are right, because the other option would be to introduce code that breaks every now and then and is unmaintainable. See all the ACPI issues for example, that only stopped when Linus said "no changes can break existing functionality anymore"