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Krzysztof Kozlowski

@kwilczynski No vendors stepped in to provide hardware for testing by Linux maintainers? No surprise...

There is somehow quite a big disconnection between big corporations making millions of products and Linux, and us - people actually developing Linux. Knowing enormous expenses in the marketing of big corporations, one could imagine what it is to donate a few boards to real Linux maintainers, right?

Nope.

I had a similar problem some time ago - till I gave up - with Samsung. I am the maintainer of Samsung SoC in Linux kernel, but all the boards were either purchased by me, donated by a friend in Germany, donated by a friend from Google or donated unofficially by a few good folks from Samsung R&D Poland.
When I asked Samsung Open-source or Samsung LSI (the one making SoCs I maintain) the answer was either silence or "no boards". One more board might now come from Samsung thanks to a project between Linaro and Samsung, but it is an exception.

And that makes me every time very rough in reviewing big-corporations code. Sorry guys, you do not play fair.
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Krzysztof Kozlowski

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@kwilczynski Although when I asked Sony to provide me with a Sony RC-S380 NFC card reader (for NFC maintenance), they send me a device immediately without questioning. Kudos to Sony. :)
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Krzysztof Kozlowski

@kwilczynski The sales trick is neat! Let's suck out of maintainers even money, not only their time!

RE: https://fosstodon.org/users/kwilczynski/statuses/110864258072128850
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