[hansendc]

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.

[l1k]

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...

[Matthias247]

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.

[zmk5]

Thanks for your hard work!

[silisili]

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.

[fomine3]

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