Backporting is so 1993

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Argues that cherry‑picking fixes and long LTS forks don’t scale, shows concrete pain: 1900 commits per release in Zephyr that are impossible to backport cleanly, and real incidents like a meltdown backport bricked many systems. Recommends staying near upstream tip, running CI that runs sanitycheck on hardware and sample apps, taking small batches of commits, using containerized isolation for components, and coordinating via kernel‑CI / upstream testing so fixes land faster and regression bisection stays tractable.

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1. 0:00Start
2. 2:11Traditional Embedded Approach
3. 3:00Traditional Product Maintenance
4. 4:14Embedded Linux Development
5. 5:32Meltdown/Spectre?
6. 6:35Stable Maintenance Is Not Easy
7. 10:15And now for something not Linux The Zephyr Project
8. 12:42Latest Software
9. 12:59Working with Latest Zephyr
10. 16:04Working with Latest: Linux

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