It's not the kernel maintainer's job to care about unsupported hardware any more than they need to worry about upstreaming the Linux fork designed to run on iPh

It's not the kernel maintainer's job to care about unsupported hardware any more than they need to worry about upstreaming the Linux fork designed to run on iPhones. This is the problem with trying to maintain community-sourced patches for complex hardware architectures; getting Linux to run on Mac is not a priority. It's not a machine designed for Linux, and Apple makes no effort to cooperate with the maintainers of the Linux kernel. If Apple (the company with ~$200,000,000,000 in cash reserves) worked with the community here, there wouldn't be any issues here.