--- In Eddie Dawydiuk <> wrote:
> There are some engineers here at Technologic Systems who feel it would
> be wise for Technologic Systems to get our kernels in the mainline.
> While others would argue it is not beneficial from a business
standpoint
> as Technologic Systems will never change default shipping kernels, so
> why should we spend more time/money and take a bigger risk to get
> mainline support if we never plan to ship any of the new kernels.
>
I do think that it is beneficial from a business standpoint. You would
get a huge publicity boost and visibility by having mainline support.
This would for sure lead to more people buying your products. I do
agree that you cannot design your hardware based on what is supported
in the linux kernel. However, I do feel that there is a bunch of
people who choose hardware based on what is supported in the linux
kernel. NSLU2 and Thecus N2100 are good examples. Their success is
based on the visibility which comes with the support they have in debian.
Furthermore, I do think that having mainline support for TS-72xx at
least is not that big a deal. Most of the work has already been done.
All it needs is someone to coordinate the effort (for example set up
git, start accepting patches).
j
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