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

[Hans de Goede]

Hi,

On 1/26/21 6:14 PM, Andy Shevchenko wrote:
> On Tue, Jan 26, 2021 at 6:55 PM Patrik Jakobsson
> <patrik.r.jakobsson at gmail.com> wrote:
>> 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 This is first part of Intel MID outdated platforms removal.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.
> 
> Actually Moorestown had to be removed a few years ago (kernel won't
> boot on them anyway from that date when Alan removed support under
> arch/x86 for it).
> 
> I'm talking about Merrifield and Moorefield that can utilize it and
> also some other platforms that are not SFI based (Cedar something...
> IIRC).

Yes at least there are some 64 bit capable SoCs with GMA500 which were
used in NAS like devices. These NAS-es actually have a VGA output
(and maybe also DVI?) which is attached to the GMA500.

I know people are running Fedora on these, so we should at least keep
these supported.

Regards,

Hans