On Tue, Jan 26, 2021 at 6:55 PM Patrik Jakobsson <patrik.r.jakobsson@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: > On Tue, Jan 26, 2021 at 4:51 PM Andy Shevchenko > <andy.shevchenko@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: > > > > On Tue, Jan 26, 2021 at 5:25 PM Patrik Jakobsson > > <patrik.r.jakobsson@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: > > > On Tue, Jan 26, 2021 at 1:37 PM Andy Shevchenko > > > <andriy.shevchenko@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> 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 This is first part of Intel MID outdated platforms removal.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
