Intel MID

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Note This page is documenting some initial research regarding the Intel MID platform

The Intel Mobile Internet Devices are a discontinued series of SoCs made by Intel. The SoFIA platform was made together with Rockchip.

Mainline support

There seems to be support for Moorefield, Moorestown, Medfield, Merrifield, in /arch/x86/platform/intel-mid. Menlow seems to be based on classic ACPI. SoFIA is unsupported on mainline, but Asus has published a downstream kernel with SoFIA support.

Firmware

Most (if not all) seem to be using the Simple Firmware Interface, which contains some elements of ACPI but is not ACPI compatible. At least Merrifield and Moorefield use SFI according to this config option (because these CPU cores are only used in Merrifield and Moorefield). SFI has been marked obsolete in the Linux kernel due to missing maintainers, but is not yet dropped. SFI was written for Moorestown, but the Linux kernel later renamed Moorestown to Intel MID which includes different SoC series, see https://lkml.org/lkml/2013/10/10/81.

SFI is similar to ACPI and it can be replaced by device tree but a lot of x86 bootloader dont support device tree.Therefore, the second stage bootloader Petitboot is neeeded to boot newer kernels with devicetree.(See Motorola RAZR i (XT890) (motorola-smi)'s device package)

Graphics

Merrifield and Moorefield make use of a PowerVR GPU, SoFIA uses a Mali GPU. The Lima driver has not yet been tested on x86, as Mali is normally used on ARM platforms.

Platforms that use PowerVR could benefit from the openpvrsgx project which is upstreaming the kernel modules so the proprietary userspace software can be used on the mainline kernel.

Devices

Note This list tries to be exhaustive, but probably isn't

Bonnell microarchitecture

Menlow platform (Silverthorne processor)

Note Menlow devices *should* be supported because it uses regular ACPI. There might be missing drivers for peripherals.
Intel Menlow
Manufacturer Intel
Name Menlow
Architecture x86
CPU Intel Menlow
GPU Mali/PowerVR
Year 2008
Process 45nm
Mainline ?
Components
CPU
UART
Storage
USB
Display
GPU
Pinctrl
I²C
SPI
Audio
Video
Thermal
WiFi
Bluetooth
Modem
GPS
Camera
NPU
Suspend
Ethernet


Device that in the Wiki

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Device that isn't in the Wiki

Moorestown platform (Lincroft processor)

Intel Moorestown
Manufacturer Intel
Name Moorestown
Architecture x86
CPU Intel Moorestown
GPU Mali/PowerVR
Year 2011
Process 45nm
Mainline ?
Components
CPU
UART
Storage
USB
Display
GPU
Pinctrl
I²C
SPI
Audio
Video
Thermal
WiFi
Bluetooth
Modem
GPS
Camera
NPU
Suspend
Ethernet


Device that in the Wiki

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Device that isn't in the Wiki
  • Cisco Cius
  • Samsung Sliding PC 7
  • HP Slate 2: Ubuntu works, but slow due to PowerVR
  • Wortmann Terra Mobile Pad 1051
  • Wortmann Terra Mobile Pad 1080
  • Fujitsu Stylistic Q550 (Z670, product sheet lists also Z690 but is probably a typo as it does not have an Intel Ark entry). Some Gentoo user noted that there are some problems with power management: the backlight doesn't turn off and the tablets runs quite hot: https://forums.gentoo.org/viewtopic-p-7056608.html
  • ViewSonic ViewPad 10Pro

Medfield platform (Penwell processor)

Intel Medfield
Manufacturer Intel
Name Medfield
Architecture x86_64
CPU Intel Medfield
GPU PowerVR SGX540
Year 2013
Process 32nm
Mainline ?
Components
CPU
UART
Storage
USB
Display
GPU
Pinctrl
I²C
SPI
Audio
Video
Thermal
WiFi
Bluetooth
Modem
GPS
Camera
NPU
Suspend
Ethernet


Device that in the Wiki
Device Codename Chipset Mainline Booting Category
Motorola RAZR i motorola-smi Intel Medfield Z2460 Y Yes testing
Device that isn't in the Wiki
  • Intel ECS TM75A
  • Intel ECS TM105A
  • Asus FonePad

Cloverview

Note It seems to have regular ACPI, but the same debugging capabilities as MID platforms: https://www.spinics.net/lists/platform-driver-x86/msg03871.html
Intel Cloverview
Manufacturer Intel
Name Cloverview
Architecture x86
CPU Intel Cloverview
GPU Mali/PowerVR
Year 2013
Process 32nm
Mainline ?
Components
CPU
UART
Storage
USB
Display
GPU
Pinctrl
I²C
SPI
Audio
Video
Thermal
WiFi
Bluetooth
Modem
GPS
Camera
NPU
Suspend
Ethernet


Device that in the Wiki
Device Codename Chipset Mainline Booting Category
Acer Iconia W511 acer-iconia-w511 Intel Cloverview Z2760 No testing
Asus MeMO Pad 7 (ME70C) asus-k01a Intel Cloverview Z2520 No testing
Asus MeMO Pad FHD 10 (ME302C) asus-redhookbay Intel Cloverview Z2560 No testing
Asus Zenfone 5 asus-t00f Intel Cloverview Z2580 / Z2560 Yes testing
Geeksphone Revolution gp-revolution Intel Cloverview Z2560 No testing
Samsung Galaxy Tab 3 10.1 3G samsung-santos103g Intel Cloverview Z2560 Yes testing
Samsung Galaxy Tab 3 10.1 Wi-Fi samsung-santos10wifi Intel Cloverview Z2560 Yes testing
Teclast P89 Mini teclast-p89mini Intel Cloverview Z2580 No testing
Device that isn't in the Wiki

Silvermont microarchitecture

Merrifield platform (Tangier processor)

Intel Merrifield
Manufacturer Intel
Name Merrifield
Architecture x86_64
CPU Intel Merrifield
GPU PowerVR G6400
Year 2014
Process 22nm
Mainline ?
Components
CPU
UART
Storage
USB
Display
GPU
Pinctrl
I²C
SPI
Audio
Video
Thermal
WiFi
Bluetooth
Modem
GPS
Camera
NPU
Suspend
Ethernet


Device that in the Wiki

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Device that isn't in the Wiki
  • Dell Venue 7 (Z3460, some sources claim a different core, I'm not really sure)
  • Dell Venue 3840 8 (Intel Z3480, different from Moorfield platform version)

Moorefield platform (Anniedale processor)

Intel Moorefield
Manufacturer Intel
Name Moorefield
Architecture x86_64
CPU Intel Moorefield
GPU PowerVR G6430
Year 2014
Process 22nm
Mainline ?
Components
CPU
UART
Storage
USB
Display
GPU
Pinctrl
I²C
SPI
Audio
Video
Thermal
WiFi
Bluetooth
Modem
GPS
Camera
NPU
Suspend
Ethernet


Device that in the Wiki
Device Codename Chipset Mainline Booting Category
Asus Zenfone Zoom asus-z00xs Intel Moorefield Z3590 No testing
Device that isn't in the Wiki
  • Asus ZenPad S 8.0 (Z580C)
  • Asus Fonepad 7 (FE375CXG)
  • Asus Zenfone 2 (ZE551ML, Z3560)
  • Asus Memo Pad 7 (ME572C) (which is a different model from the other Memo Pad 7 listed on this wiki)
  • Asus Memo Pad 8 (ME581C)
  • Asus ZenPad 10 (Z300CNL)
  • Nokia N1
  • Dell Venue 8 (Intel Z3580, different from Merrifield platform version)

SoFIA platform (x3-C3xxx processor)

Intel SoFIA
Manufacturer Intel
Name SoFIA
Architecture x86_64
CPU Intel SoFIA
GPU Mali
Year 2015
Process 28nm
Mainline ?
Components
CPU
UART
Storage
USB
Display
GPU
Pinctrl
I²C
SPI
Audio
Video
Thermal
Bluetooth
Modem
GPS
Camera
NPU
Suspend
Ethernet


Device that in the Wiki
Device Codename Chipset Mainline Booting Category
Alco RCA Voyager III sofiaboard Intel SoFIA x3-C3200RK N Yes testing
Asus ZenPad C 7.0 (Z170C) asus-p01z Intel SoFIA x3-C3200RK No testing
Device that isn't in the Wiki
  • Asus ZenPad 10 (Z300CG)
  • Asus ZenPad 8.0 (Z380C)
  • TrekStor SurfTab Theatre 13.3
  • TrekStor SurfTab breeze 9.6 quad
  • TrekStor SurfTab xintron i 10.1 3G
  • eSTAR GO!

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