Are dev boards / academic FPGA implementations going to care about being able to brand themselves as Linux-2022 compliant?  And should we let the tail wag the dog in defining a platform spec for production systems?  They could just disable the software watchdog functionality (along with whatever other disables for other shortcuts that were made).

 

Or does there need to be a "Minimal" platform spec with even fewer requirements than the Base spec - just for the above sort of designs.  It seems like watering down the Base spec is a disservice to industrial-class production embedded Linux systems.

Greg