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Re:Initial M1 support merged into Linux SoC tree by kelnos on Friday April 09, 2021 @05:30AM (#26748423)
I noticed that too. If you scroll through the entire diff, it looks like most of it is the removal of those seemingly unrelated things.

I also see some changes to what looks like common arm64 code, which isn't guarded to check for Apple or non-Apple; it seemed strange to me that those changes would be ok.

I wonder if both of those things are just changes from an unrelated merge that are showing up in this diff for no reason.

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Re:Initial M1 support merged into Linux SoC tree by jychang on Friday April 09, 2021 @10:29AM (#26751007)
See here https://asahilinux.org/2021/03/progress-report-january-febru...

Mostly the section on IRQ.

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Re:Initial M1 support merged into Linux SoC tree by Ericson2314 on Friday April 09, 2021 @11:01AM (#26751390)
Yeah all this is good not bad. This is an extremely high quality port in that general-purpose yak shaves were taking as necessary.

This is the exact opposite of your e.g. android phone "fork and abandon" where someone does the absolute minimal and ugliest hacks that upstream would never accept.

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