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Date:   Mon, 15 Aug 2022 10:40:26 +0300
From:   Laurent Pinchart <laurent.pinchart@ideasonboard.com>
To:     Sergey Senozhatsky <senozhatsky@chromium.org>
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On Mon, Aug 15, 2022 at 04:24:19PM +0900, Sergey Senozhatsky wrote:
> On (22/08/15 09:14), Greg KH wrote:
> > > Definitely not today. Someday, for sure :)
> > > 
> > > I don't want to promise any timelines. But we are certainly not
> > > talking "weeks", we are talking "months". Several months is a
> > > realistic timeline.
> > 
> > Ok, so getting this merged is a good year out at the best, realisticly 2
> > years given that once you submit the first version for review, the real
> > work will start happening.
> 
> Well, nothing is really set in stone here. We may revisit our strategy,
> say turn it upside down, and hit upstream mailing list as soon as possible
> instead.
> 
> > So I'll stick with my original statement, don't buy this hardware
>   ... if you plan on running vanilla kernel. Otherwise do buy :)

If you want to run a proprietary OS.

-- 
Regards,

Laurent Pinchart