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

From: Andy Shevchenko <andy.shevchenko@gmail.com>
To: Patrik Jakobsson <patrik.r.jakobsson@gmail.com>
Cc: Andy Shevchenko <andriy.shevchenko@linux.intel.com>,
	Platform Driver <platform-driver-x86@vger.kernel.org>,
	Hans de Goede <hdegoede@redhat.com>,
	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 19:14:35 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <CAHp75VdKxARQAyyTd=ZcaoER1iF6Mk4AS1Dn6U9VCjt_D_+q8A@mail.gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <CAMeQTsY6k64LUg3DYbi67W6-Gx6znOeJbDfKUhzGt-BxF2BgKA@mail.gmail.com>

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 This is first part of Intel MID outdated platforms removal.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).

> > 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.

-- 
With Best Regards,
Andy Shevchenko