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Re:Pine64 should re-evaluate their community priorities by MartijnBraam on Thursday January 20, 2022 @04:36PM (#30015412)
I'd like to point out that megi (the author of that site/kernel) refuses to upstream the improvements to the mainline linux tree, which is why it's still impossible to boot the PinePhone with a kernel.org kernel and have things working. This is not even just an issue for the PinePhone but all other Allwinner A64 based devices hit the same issues and now have to pick patches from that kernel.

The second megi decides the PinePhone or the A64 isn't interesting anymore (since the new one is Rockchip rk3399) that whole tree maintainership will collapse.

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Re:Pine64 should re-evaluate their community priorities by asojfdowgh on Thursday January 20, 2022 @05:28PM (#30016155)
that doesn't seem correct, https://patchwork.kernel.org/project/linux-usb/patch/2021110... e.g. megi submitting patches as late as november last year

Could you cite where they refuse to upstream?

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Re:Pine64 should re-evaluate their community priorities by MartijnBraam on Thursday January 20, 2022 @05:53PM (#30016512)
It's mentioned in the pine64 developer chats when discussing this with megi, that +4-1 patch is a joke compared to the amount of patched code in the megi tree.
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Re:Pine64 should re-evaluate their community priorities by tpxl on Thursday January 20, 2022 @05:17PM (#30015973)
Why doesn't he want to upstream the patches?
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Re:Pine64 should re-evaluate their community priorities by seba_dos1 on Friday January 21, 2022 @12:43AM (#30019631)
AFAIK some things that are (or were, I may not be up-to-date there) present in the megi's tree aren't even upstreamable at all, like the modem power manager driver. When you maintain your own tree, you can be much more liberal in what goes there compared to what mainline maintainers will accept.
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Re:Pine64 should re-evaluate their community priorities by MartijnBraam on Thursday January 20, 2022 @05:27PM (#30016143)
Because it isn't that much work to keep rebasing his tree according to megi.
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Re:Pine64 should re-evaluate their community priorities by zozbot234 on Thursday January 20, 2022 @06:41PM (#30017060)
Could the pmOS folks get involved and start submitting mainline patches themselves? The Mobian folks might also be interested since they probably want to minimize long-term deviations from Debian, which is based on the mainline.
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Re:Pine64 should re-evaluate their community priorities by MartijnBraam on Thursday January 20, 2022 @06:51PM (#30017152)
We're working together with the maintainers of various distros now to first of all avoid this mess on the pinephone pro, and then on the longer term fix up pinephone in mainline.
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