[GIT PULL] ib-drm-gpio-pdx86-rtc-wdt-v5.12-1

Patrik Jakobsson patrik.r.jakobsson at gmail.com
Tue Jan 26 16:55:47 UTC 2021


On Tue, Jan 26, 2021 at 4:51 PM Andy Shevchenko
<andy.shevchenko at gmail.com> wrote:
>
> On Tue, Jan 26, 2021 at 5:25 PM Patrik Jakobsson
> <patrik.r.jakobsson at gmail.com> wrote:
> > On Tue, Jan 26, 2021 at 1:37 PM Andy Shevchenko
> > <andriy.shevchenko at linux.intel.com> wrote:
> > >
> > > Hi guys,
> > >
> > > This is first part of Intel MID outdated platforms removal. It's collected into
> > > immutable branch with a given tag, please pull to yours subsystems.
> >
> > Hi Andy,
> > Do you plan on eventually removing X86_INTEL_MID completely? If so,
> > then I should probably start looking at removing the corresponding
> > parts in GMA500.
>
> Nope. It is related to only Medfield / Clovertrail platforms.
>
> There are other (MID) platforms that may / might utilize this driver
> in the future.

Right, there's still Oaktrail / Moorestown with hardware in the wild.

>
> I.o.w. we probably can remove the oldest stuff in the driver WRT above
> mentioned platforms, but leave the driver for the rest.
> I wouldn't be in a hurry with this though, display drivers are easy to
> remove, but really hard to get back on velocity after that.

Ok, I'll have a look at removing Medfield. That code should have been
removed a long time ago.

-Patrik


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