> Few maintainers care about the platform in question (to whom it's more a curiosity [...]) and don't have the hardware to test any submitted patches.
Yeah, from some very brief research I could only find a singular Linux kernel developer/maintainer/creator who said[0] "I'd absolutely love to have [the new 2020 Air], if it just ran Linux".
Who knows if that one person has even used Apple hardware before or has access to the necessary hardware to put toward a practical use such as a "development platform" while travelling, or, "doing test builds and boots and now the actual [Linux kernel] release tagging"[1][2], let alone be supportive of experimenting with Rust in the Linux kernel[3].
The history of Linux demonstrates the project doesn't have the resources to go chasing support for a hardware platform just because Linus cares about the platform in question...
...even if at least "173 people, and many more" "contributed both to the Linux kernel side but also to the upstream Rust side to support the kernel's needs" in the initial merge[3].
Yeah, from some very brief research I could only find a singular Linux kernel developer/maintainer/creator who said[0] "I'd absolutely love to have [the new 2020 Air], if it just ran Linux".
Who knows if that one person has even used Apple hardware before or has access to the necessary hardware to put toward a practical use such as a "development platform" while travelling, or, "doing test builds and boots and now the actual [Linux kernel] release tagging"[1][2], let alone be supportive of experimenting with Rust in the Linux kernel[3].
The history of Linux demonstrates the project doesn't have the resources to go chasing support for a hardware platform just because Linus cares about the platform in question...
...even if at least "173 people, and many more" "contributed both to the Linux kernel side but also to the upstream Rust side to support the kernel's needs" in the initial merge[3].
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[0] https://www.realworldtech.com/forum/?threadid=196533&curpost...
[1] https://lore.kernel.org/lkml/CAHk-=wgrz5BBk=rCz7W28Fj_o02s0X...
[2] via: https://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2022/08/linus-torvalds-uses-...
[3] https://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/torvalds/lin...