Interest in adding Surface images?

[castrojo]

(This is labelled as a concept, which is an inprogress idea or proposal, it is not resourced or scoped so mostly just a collection of ideas. Over time it might move to a proposal)

I noticed that the surface-linux repository has specific instructions for silverblue: https://github.com/linux-surface/linux-surface/wiki/Installation-and-Setup

And then I started thinking, swapping out a kernel isn't too hard, and the post installation stuff is just config and scripts and we generally know how to do that already. So I'm seeing if there's any interest in the community for an image for Microsoft Surface devices. I don't have one of these but I am looking for an excuse to get one, I'm hoping that some of you out there might have these, it could be something cool and useful.

After making the cinnamon and budgie repos though I've also starting to feel the pain amplification of having too many repos and having to sync all the github actions, etc. So I am also wondering if people have ideas on adding a surface/ directory with the specific changes and just have the stuff in main or if it's worth the cognitive load of doing yet-another-repo.

[Zindswini]

I have a Surface Book 3, and have been looking for an excuse to ditch windows on it. I would be happy to do testing and contribute where I can.

The Surface Book 3 in particular has quite a few edge-case quirks that traditional installations struggle with supporting, mainly the hotpluggable (nvidia) gpu, the pen+touchscreen, and the IR camera.

[KE0VVT]

I would be interested in seeing your work, as an example of how to add a custom kernel. I have a custom kernel I'd like to use. (GNU linux-libre).