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-Please do not submit a Pull Request via github.  Our project makes use of
-mailing lists for patch submission and review.  For more details please see
-https://xilinx-wiki.atlassian.net/wiki/spaces/A/pages/18842172/Create+and+Submit+a+Patch
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+This file identifies the origin of this branch for the vendor kernel port to
+Sokol Flex OS. This kernel was fetched from
+
+repo: https://github.com/Xilinx/linux-xlnx.git
+branch: xlnx_rebase_v6.1_LTS
+hash: a19da02cf5b44420ec6afb1eef348c21d9e8cda2
+
+The kernel version at the time of this fork was: 6.1.30