Policy question: criteria for submission to mainline for a new SoC?

Jassi Brar jassisinghbrar at gmail.com
Mon Aug 23 11:54:51 EDT 2010


On Tue, Aug 24, 2010 at 12:20 AM, Jason McMullan
<jason.mcmullan at netronome.com> wrote:

> B) What is the general policy for '# of units sold' for whether
>   a SoC should be added to the Linux ARM mainline?

I guess no policy as such, just a tacit understanding that there
does/will exist sufficient
'users' of the device that would be interested in keeping the support
up-to-date and
test any changes. If you push the code just for the sake of it, it'll
only add to the crowd.
Or so do I think.



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