One developer maintains parallel RISC-V kernel ports

Category: Engineering post
Status: discussion
Sources: The Register, HN discussion
Summary: The Register profiled a maintainer carrying two kernel codebases for RISC-V targets, detailing the duplication burden and the upstreaming friction behind keeping a less common architecture working. The piece is reporting and practitioner context rather than a kernel release.
Why it matters: It illustrates the maintenance cost of keeping non-mainstream architectures viable in the kernel, relevant as RISC-V support expands.