Re: [RFC PATCH v2 0/4] Add support for Asymmetric AArch32 systems

Catalin Marinas
2020-10-21T14:36:45Z

On Wed, Oct 21, 2020 at 03:31:05PM +0200, Greg Kroah-Hartman wrote:
> On Wed, Oct 21, 2020 at 02:15:04PM +0100, Qais Yousef wrote:
> > > Without even looking at the patch set, this is not ok...
> >
> > Sorry about that. Please keep in mind we're still debating if we want to
> > support this upstream.
>
> What do you mean by this?
>
> Do you mean you will keep an out-of-tree patchset for all time for all
> future kernel versions for everyone to pull from and you will support
> for all chips that end up with this type of functionality?
>
> That's a huge task to do, you all must have a lot of money to burn!

From a maintainer perspective (and not as an Arm employee), hopefully
the high cost would be a deterrent to other such hardware combinations
in the future ;). Even if it will (likely) end up in mainline, we
shouldn't make it straightforward.

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Catalin