Let's start with the good news: yes, someone is looking at that. The bad news: The patches are a joke and the submitter doesn't seem to understand the objections raised.

Koen is referring to http://patches.openembedded.org/patch/82875/

Obviously, we're actively working on keeping metal-linaro layer a small delta as possible.

We're regularly sending patches *and* test them on our autobuilders for the architectures that we care about.