Is hardware board required if hope to upstream a new arm/arm64 soc?

[Li Chen]

Hi, all
 
I wonder if a soc design vendor try to get their new socs upstreamed, do maintainers need to get hardware/boards from vendors to
verify bootable or other issues?
 
Regards,
Li

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