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by samueldr 1823 days ago
Hi, author/lead dev here, I'll be glad to answer questions if any, but please ask at the root and not directly to this comment.
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Do you know more details how much the efforts are progressing regarding mainline support for those mobile devices?

I've only observed some of the discussions over at pmOS (and some at ArchLinuxARM for that matter), but to me it's very unclear what the "workflow" should look like if I would have, say, a patch ready for my pinephone's drivers.

A lot of different efforts seem to be somehow widespread across the interwebz, with varying degrees of stability, and seem to be very uncoordinated or isolated efforts.

I'm asking this, because I've seen that the nix file builds from megous' fork [1] so I'm a bit unsure on how "official" it is in regards to whether or not pull requests/patches submitted there will be integrated upstream.

(Sorry if I misunderstood it, but I'm a bit cautious having developed on dozens of abandoned forks of Linux kernels for Android/AOSP before - as most of them were a waste of development years due to no patron available or willing to merge fixes upstream)

[1] https://github.com/megous/linux