Why not Meson T7 with direct Mainline Kernel support at launch?

@Frank They use a version of the lts kernel that has already been worked on and they don’t have to update since the hardware is closed, right? I mean, you can’t change the Ethernet or Wifi chipset, you can’t change the GPU either, it is given by the concept of SOC. I also see that many meson apis that are used in 5.4 are already broken in 5.8 so the code has to be rewritten…why do kernel devs break apis so much? it would be much easier to bring the socs to new lts versions of the kernel if they didn’t break them every 2x3