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

From: Hans de Goede <hdegoede@redhat.com>
To: Andy Shevchenko <andy.shevchenko@gmail.com>,
	Patrik Jakobsson <patrik.r.jakobsson@gmail.com>
Cc: 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 19:33:26 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <3b4c2f63-14e6-5041-3c15-c2d65b229269@redhat.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <CAHp75VdKxARQAyyTd=ZcaoER1iF6Mk4AS1Dn6U9VCjt_D_+q8A@mail.gmail.com>

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 This is first part of Intel MID outdated platforms removal.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

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

Regards,

Hans