Merging Allwinner support

Merging Allwinner support

I second this. I've also been lurking on debian-arm and know of Leighton only from his efforts on the EOMA/Rhombus project where he has indeed been putting a lot of long-term efforts towards a worthwhile goal.

Further, having done some significant business in Korea, I'm inclined to think that the "suggestion" Leighton is being ridiculed for in the article, namely

that he apologize on behalf of the Linux kernel community for "not consulting with you (allwinner) on the decision to only accept device tree" elicited both amazement and anger—for obvious reasons

in fact shows that he is in a position "on the ground" at Allwinner and knows how the local culture works. In Korea (and China, Taiwan, Japan, ...) there is an extremely strong culture of conflict avoidance and fear of "losing face". Leighton's suggestion would be exactly the kind of statement I would make to Allwinner senior management were I in a position to be negotiating a situation like this.

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