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

From: Andy Shevchenko <andy.shevchenko@gmail.com>
To: Hans de Goede <hdegoede@redhat.com>
Cc: Patrik Jakobsson <patrik.r.jakobsson@gmail.com>,
	Andy Shevchenko <andriy.shevchenko@linux.intel.com>,
	Platform Driver <platform-driver-x86@vger.kernel.org>,
	Mark Gross <mgross@linux.intel.com>,
	dri-devel <dri-devel@lists.freedesktop.org>,
	Alessandro Zummo <a.zummo@towertech.it>,
	Alexandre Belloni <alexandre.belloni@bootlin.com>,
	"open list:REAL TIME CLOCK (RTC) SUBSYSTEM" 
	<linux-rtc@vger.kernel.org>,
	linux-watchdog@vger.kernel.org,
	Wim Van Sebroeck <wim@linux-watchdog.org>,
	Guenter Roeck <linux@roeck-us.net>,
	"open list:GPIO SUBSYSTEM" <linux-gpio@vger.kernel.org>,
	Linus Walleij <linus.walleij@linaro.org>,
	Bartosz Golaszewski <bgolaszewski@baylibre.com>
Subject: Re: [GIT PULL] ib-drm-gpio-pdx86-rtc-wdt-v5.12-1
Date: Tue, 26 Jan 2021 22:54:14 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <CAHp75VcEq4thOub+k5rDR61KZX4jCZj2zJr2OqsdedmpSB64KA@mail.gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <3b4c2f63-14e6-5041-3c15-c2d65b229269@redhat.com>

On Tue, Jan 26, 2021 at 8:33 PM Hans de Goede <hdegoede@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@gmail.com> wrote:
> >> On Tue, Jan 26, 2021 at 4:51 PM Andy Shevchenko
> >> <andy.shevchenko@gmail.com> wrote:
> >>> On Tue, Jan 26, 2021 at 5:25 PM Patrik Jakobsson
> >>> <patrik.r.jakobsson@gmail.com> wrote:
> >>>> On Tue, Jan 26, 2021 at 1:37 PM Andy Shevchenko
> >>>> <andriy.shevchenko@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 This is first part of Intel MID outdated platforms removal.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.

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

Is it possible to gather the CPU model number from them? (Or at least
the exact device/box name)

-- 
With Best Regards,
Andy Shevchenko