> Baikal processors are made specifically for russian military and have no civilian use
These are general purpose processors and there are plans to deploy them widely across Russian civil service and major state owned banks.
They are indeed sub-par compared to Intel or ARM however in the present situation Russia is faced with a choice between importing electronics through grey channels and developing its own national product even if it is subpar to what would have been normally available.
I personally very much hope the 2nd choice is taken, domestically designed processors take hold and the world gets a new choice of hardware to use.
While I agree that code and science should be separated from politics, isn't this the point of the sanction?
AFAIK the Linux Foundation is a US non-profit, and many core kernel developers, such as Linus Torvalds and Greg KH reside in the United States.
> We don't feel comfortable accepting patches from or relating to hardware produced by your organization.
Is the discomfort based on technical, or legal, or moral/political reasoning?
Suppose it's not everybody's cup of tea, but there are users on this planet who would love to be running a fully free and open source software on machines that provably have no Intel Management Engine or other comparable closed-source technologies.
What the community could be doing instead of refusing useful patches enhancing support for an IP-core licensed from a western company is working with Baikal developers to ensure that desktops/laptops built on their hardware include no closed source software blobs anywhere in the drivers or in EEPROM.
How often do we have an opportunity like this?
The context seem to be missing - is it just this specific maintainer's opinion or a result of consensus? Is this specific maintainer in position to make this decision on behalf of the team?
Redhat is also providing FLOSS to weapons manufacturers (Raytheon and Lockheed Martin):
http://techrights.org/2022/10/27/red-hat-lockheed-martin-ray...
A lot of opinions, but it's 200% true - LINUX IS NOT FREE. IT'S CONTROLLED BY US GOVERNMENT.
Does the copyright work in this case?
Because the patch was actually published already fully (in the mail list), if I understand it correctly.
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In case you didn't know that, Baikal processors are made specifically for russian military and have no civilian use.