Hi, John Doe from IRC here. I made this account just to reply to you.
The patch to the (already mainlined ages ago) device tree is not "on the manufacturer's website" because it is already on the Linux kernel's website. To which I linked. And it will be in Linux kernel 5.19.
Unlike Broadcom's fruit-themed tax evasion scheme, we strive to mainline support for the devices, so that you do not need manufacturer specific patches and mainline Linux just works out of the box.
The berries wrinkle their nose at this approach, as they'd rather use a proprietary boot chain with their own kernel fork and pre-made SD card images containing forks of Debian for maximum handholding.
Meanwhile, I'll be content booting fully open and auditable firmware with mainline bootloaders, kernels and userlands. We all have our own priorities.
The patch to the (already mainlined ages ago) device tree is not "on the manufacturer's website" because it is already on the Linux kernel's website. To which I linked. And it will be in Linux kernel 5.19.
Unlike Broadcom's fruit-themed tax evasion scheme, we strive to mainline support for the devices, so that you do not need manufacturer specific patches and mainline Linux just works out of the box.
The berries wrinkle their nose at this approach, as they'd rather use a proprietary boot chain with their own kernel fork and pre-made SD card images containing forks of Debian for maximum handholding.
Meanwhile, I'll be content booting fully open and auditable firmware with mainline bootloaders, kernels and userlands. We all have our own priorities.