Finding SPARC patches worth upstreaming in the UEK kernel

[John Paul Adrian Glaubitz <glaubitz@physik.fu-berlin.de>]

Hi,

as many of you may know, Oracle's UEK kernel for SPARC contains a number of improvements
that never made it upstream into the Linux kernel. Since it would be a waste to not pick
those up, I have started creating issues in the sparclinux issue tracker on GitHub [1]
to collect these. Since I can't do this all on my own, I invite everyone interested to
help with this effort.

To do so, just take a look at the commit history of the arch/sparc directory of the
UEK kernel [2] and scroll through the commits. If you spot a commit that might be
worth upstreaming such as [3] ("sparc64: Add missing hardware capabilities for M7"),
create a new issue like I have done for this commit in [4].

Some notes:

- Please include links with the commit title to the commits in the UEK sources; this
  can be achieved by selecting the text of the commit message in the commit overview
  in [2], then right-click and copy. This will automatically copy a URL with the commit
  title into the clipboard using the correct "[]()" template.

- Before opening an issue, please make sure that the issue doesn't exist yet.

- Use GitHub labels such as "patch", "kernel", "bug" and "enhancement" to tag the issue
  similar to the existing issue.

There might also be interesting commits in the drivers directory [5], so please look there
as well. Oracle stopped working on SPARC support for Linux around 2017, so you will most
likely find the interesting commits starting at the end of 2017 going backwards.

Adrian

> [1] https://github.com/sparclinux/issues/issues
> [2] https://github.com/sparclinux/linux-uek/commits/uek4/qu7/arch/sparc
> [3] https://github.com/sparclinux/linux-uek/commit/efcafbab1b123d615c1f2683c98fccc5ccee1527
> [4] https://github.com/sparclinux/issues/issues/17
> [5] https://github.com/sparclinux/linux-uek/commits/uek4/qu7/drivers

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