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The sad part about all of this is that generally the contributions for these kind of things do not come from the vendor, but from "volunteers". See for example
by denysvitali 3y ago
The sad part about all of this is that generally the contributions for these kind of things do not come from the vendor, but from "volunteers".
See for example the kernel patches done to support the Surface Pro X:
https://github.com/linux-surface/surface-pro-x https://github.com/linux-surface/surface-pro-x
Half of them are from Maximilian Luz (@qzed, student), the other half are from Bjorn Andersson (@andersson, Linaro).
All of the hard work is done by them, instead of Qualcomm / Microsoft. The same applies for the rest of the ARM ecosystem :(
Another great example is Asahi Linux: the port was only possible because someone decided to reverse engineer the work of Apple - not because Apple wanted it.
- ndsipa_pomu 3y agoIt's to be expected though. Companies are usually set up to only care about profit and there's very little profit to be made by providing for niche uses, so it's going to fall on the enthusiasts to do the work. I just wish that companies were more helpful when volunteers contact them.