Re: Backports of asahi-scripts, asahi-audio, triforce-lv2

Nicholas D Steeves <[email protected]> Sat, 06 Dec 2025 15:33:24 -0500

Newsgroups	gmane.linux.debian.backports.general
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Hi André,

André Wolski <[email protected]> writes:

> I'm an interested observer of the project, not using or contributing to it.
>
> Marcan, Lina, and Alyssa have left the project. Afaik Alyssa is working for
> a GPU vendor now.
>
> Sven Peter has stepped up as maintainer and is regularly upstreaming to the
> Linux kernel; current focus is on the USB drivers. He'll give a talk this
> month at 39c3.
> Afaik Janne Grunau is now maintaining the graphics stack, but I don't know
> how they split their work and if there are other maintainers.
> They also started porting some of the critical parts of the m1n1 bootloader
> to Rust.
>
> The project is regularly posting status updates:
> https://social.treehouse.systems/@AsahiLinux

Thank you for taking the time to write this update, and I appreciate
learning a bit more about the people involved (now I see I had
previously read news about Alyssa), and how the project is still moving
forward.  A healthy upstream is another thing I think the backport
ftpmasters look for, because we a backport to be useful and relevant for
the full stable-backport lifecycle.  Oh, and to be clear, I'm not a
backport ftpmaster, 'just someone who wants to see other people's work
accepted and made available to others rather than rejected.

Cheers,
Nicholas

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