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Re:Lanai, the mystery CPU architecture in LLVM by rstat1 on Monday March 21, 2022 @04:15PM (#30759142)
Given how ridiculously strict the Linux folks are being with the DXGKRNL stuff that MS is working on (which is public as part of WSLg), I would say definitely not.
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Re:Lanai, the mystery CPU architecture in LLVM by monocasa on Monday March 21, 2022 @05:26PM (#30759904)
I think that has more to do with DXGKRNL coming from Microsoft than any policy that would be applied to other contributers.
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Re:Lanai, the mystery CPU architecture in LLVM by detaro on Monday March 21, 2022 @06:03PM (#30760301)
Other Microsoft contributions got into the kernel just fine.
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Re:Lanai, the mystery CPU architecture in LLVM by monocasa on Monday March 21, 2022 @06:30PM (#30760586)
And other thin veneers over closed source paravirtualized VM graphics acceleration pipes get in as well, even from companies that flagrantly violate Linux's license.

I think that it's a difference of subtree maintainer as to why some Microsoft code gets in and some is fought tooth and nail; you can't treat Linux developers as a monolith, and the graphics side is significantly more Microsoft adverse.

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