Dear Debian Kernel Team, I am a developer at CIX technology company, an ARM chip manufacturer. We are actively using Debian as our default development system internally and are committed to ensuring our chipset is well-supported in the Linux ecosystem.
We have been working on patches to add support for our chipset in the Linux kernel and are in the process of upstreaming these changes to the mainline kernel. However, as upstreaming can take time, we would like to inquire whether Debian would be open to accepting these patches into the Debian kernel in the interim. Our goal is to: Submit our chip support patches to the Debian kernel, ensuring better out-of-the-box compatibility for users. Continue working to get these patches merged into the mainline Linux kernel. Once the patches are accepted upstream, remove the redundant patches from the Debian kernel to align with the mainline code. We believe this approach would benefit both our internal development workflow and Debian users who may use our hardware. Please let us know if this is something Debian would consider. Thank you for your time and consideration. We greatly appreciate the work the Debian community does and would be happy to collaborate further to ensure smooth integration. Looking forward to your response. Best regards,
