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I hope so too! But, I was trying to think of if I've ever seen the Linutronix folks working on the Intel graphics code. I don't think I have:

https://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/torvalds/lin...

For very selfish reasons, I'm hoping that this acquisition will give the Linutronix folks even more of an opportunity to contribute to the core kernel and especially arch/x86.

Disclaimer: I work on Linux at Intel.

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There's a series currently under discussion which failed CI:

https://lore.kernel.org/intel-gfx/20211214140301.520464-1-bi...

Plus 13 patches over the past years (not counting merges and SPDX commits):

https://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/torvalds/lin...

Unfortunately, a lot of the PREEMPT_RT patches follow the "disable stuff for now, fix up for real later" anti-pattern. :-(

Case in point:

https://lore.kernel.org/intel-gfx/YgqmfKhwU5spS069@linutroni...

They don't necessarily have to directly do it. As far as I remember Linutronix is rather invested in training (I enjoyed a Linux training from them around 2010), and so they might just help out other intel engineers in landing those patches.

Thanks for your hard work!

Echoing this. Intel has by far the best working out of the box graphics drivers. I usually go Intel APUs for this reason, and am excited by the move into discrete.

Intel is doing the best to support Linux ecosystem. I wish other growing chip manufacturer follow them.

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