On Thu, Nov 21, 2013 at 07:26:02PM +0100, Arnd Bergmann wrote:

> + A number of subsystems that Intel needs to handle on embedded systems
>   should really not be described in detail on servers on any architecture
>   but instead be handled in AML or SMBIOS (e.g. pinctrl or phy).

Are we 100% sure about this assumption?  We're saying "server" here but
how much of that is really "distro" - if it is distro then you start to
get things like laptops coming into play which do have a lot more of the
fun stuff that we see on embedded devices in active use.