> Baikal processors are made specifically for russian military and have no civilian use<p>These are general purpose processors and there are plans to deploy them widely across Russian civil service and major state owned banks.<p>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.<p>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?<p>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.
<i>> We don't feel comfortable accepting patches from or relating
to hardware produced by your organization.</i><p>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.<p>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.<p>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):<p><a href="http://techrights.org/2022/10/27/red-hat-lockheed-martin-raytheon/" rel="nofollow">http://techrights.org/2022/10/27/red-hat-lockheed-martin-ray...</a>