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Your title is misleading.

They’re not expanding 1000 drivers, but their own Linux distribution with over 1000 drivers, i.e. they’re adding drivers to their own distribution.

> Analog Devices Expands Linux Distribution with Over 1000 Device Drivers to Support the Development of High-Performance Solutions

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Isn't their own best commercial interest to get their drivers accepted into the mainline Linux kernel? Why they would just release a random distribution??

Yes - we attempt to push all drivers upstream, but there are many people who want to just try something out, and don't want to compile kernel and userspace from source.

The Kuiper distribution is about convenience for those people who want to be users, not developers.

[Disclaimer - I work at ADI]

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