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

[Hans de Goede]

Hi,

On 1/26/21 9:54 PM, Andy Shevchenko wrote:
> On Tue, Jan 26, 2021 at 8:33 PM Hans de Goede <hdegoede at redhat.com> wrote:
>> 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 This is first part of Intel MID outdated platforms removal.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.
> 
> Since you are talking about 64-bit, definitely they are *not*
> Moorestown, Medfield, Clovertrail since the mentioned never were
> 64-bit. But it would be nice to see the CPU model number to be sure.

My info on this comes from this bugreport:
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1665766

And the machine that bugreport is about is a "Thecus N5550 NAS box (Intel Atom D2550/Cedarview platform)"

Regards,

Hans