Date: Thu, 30 Apr 2020 16:37:18 +0200
From: Natanael Copa <ncopa@alpinelinux.org>
To: Ariadne Conill <ariadne@dereferenced.org>
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Subject: Re: alpine is not support mips64el platform on apk packages source
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On Wed, 29 Apr 2020 21:55:03 -0600
Ariadne Conill <ariadne@dereferenced.org> wrote:

> Hi,
>=20
> On Sunday, April 26, 2020 1:59:21 AM MDT *** wrote:
> > Hi Ariadne,
> >=20
> > I have notified your requirements to our kernel team, but there are some
> > issues as follows: * Can you accept patches that we have not submitted =
to
> > the Linux community yet? Or only accept patches from upstream? * We do =
have
> > difficulties to provide kernel version 4.9, alternative kernel version =
4.19
> > and 5.4 are OK? =20
>=20
> We would prefer patches for 5.4, and we can probably carry them in our li=
nux-
> lts package, but we should make sure that Natanael is okay with that as h=
e=20
> leads kernel maintenance in Alpine.  Otherwise, we can provide a patched=
=20
> kernel as we do with linux-octeon.

Depends a bit on how intrusive they are and how much they get in the
way when upstream kernel is updated. I don't want spend hours of
rebasing kernel patches on every kernel update.

-nc