Purism and Linux 5.12



Following up on our report for Linux 5.11 this summarizes the progress on mainline support for the Librem 5 phone and its development kit during the 5.12 development cycle.
In order to maintain support for the devkit and the phone, we continuously update the mainline hardware description and default configuration. This category even forms the bulk of our contributions during the latest development cycle. The following changes also finally make it possible to run the mainline arm64 default kernel on the devkit with the display working. Running an unmodified upstream kernel is not only incredibly powerful for kernel development as it removes various uncertainties and reviews overhead. It’s also a big step towards ensuring long-term support of the hardware. Working on our changes together with the community is far more pleasant than being on our own. We keep working on reaching the same point for the Librem 5 phone...
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