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RobertCNelson / armv7-multiplatform

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[RFC] Add Arch Linux ARM patches #46

Open Megver83 opened 5 years ago

Megver83 commented 5 years ago

Arch Linux ARM has really good kernel patches for better ARM support which haven't been yet merged into mainline.

https://github.com/archlinuxarm/PKGBUILDs/tree/master/core/linux-armv7 (check the *.patch files)

They are really useful. The patches add new device trees, new/improved support for some u-boot implementations, some fixes and features that may be interesting to see in this project. A new folder (could be patches/alarm?) can be created for this, with the patch files inside.

Please note that they only support stable releases of Linux, so for LTS generations we should wait till the current stable branch becomes LTS.

RobertCNelson commented 5 years ago

Hi @Megver83! Thanks for the ping. While i'd love to add patches for all arm based boards, I do have a small rule with my patch-set. If i don't personally have the board installed in my build network, i don't include patches for it. However if it's tagged in mainline, i will back-port it. I'd rather not risk a regression on a board i can't test. ;)