Intel GMA500/600/3600 (Poulsbo, Oak Trail, Cedar Trail) Atom graphics
The integrated graphics found on Intel's first generations of Atom processors for netbooks, mobile internet devices, and low-power embedded boards, sold roughly 2008 through 2013. Unlike most Intel graphics of the era these used licensed PowerVR SGX cores rather than Intel's own design, covering the Poulsbo (GMA500), Moorestown/Oak Trail (GMA600), and Cedar Trail (GMA3600/3650) platforms.
recommendation
Worth keeping but flagging as legacy hardware, because the chips it drives (Poulsbo, Moorestown/Oak Trail, and Cedar Trail Atom integrated graphics from roughly 2008 to 2013) are long discontinued by Intel and now ship in very few running systems. Upstream is still applying treewide cleanups to it as recently as 2026, so the code is not abandoned, but its user base is small enough that documenting its niche status would help future maintenance decisions.
repository signals
sources
- lore.kernel.org
The driver was still being touched upstream in 2026, indicating it is maintained rather than abandoned.
- intel.com
One supported Cedar Trail SKU (Atom N2800, tied to GMA3600/3650-class hardware) is marked Discontinued and launched in Q4 2011.
- intel.com
Intel states the Atom Z500 series with Intel Graphics Media Accelerator 500 has been discontinued and moved to legacy/self-help support only.
- en.wikichip.org
Oak Trail Atom Z670, another family covered by this driver, shows last order in May 2013 and last shipment in November 2013, supporting a circa-2013 end of broad new-market availability.
- intel.com
Cedar Trail was an Intel Atom platform for netbooks/entry desktops, confirming this driver targets old Atom-era client/embedded designs rather than current products.
codex reasoning notes (technical)
Local shell inspection (`rg`, `sed`) in the source tree identified supported chipsets: GMA500/Poulsbo, GMA600/Moorestown-Oak Trail, and GMA3600/3650/Cedar Trail. `lore_file_timeline` on `drivers/gpu/drm/gma500/psb_drv.c` produced the lore URL and showed recent 2026 traffic; I found no concrete removal series in the limited lore/search budget, so I did not escalate to remove. Web search/open/find produced the Intel and WikiChip URLs: Intel ARK/support pages show the hardware families are discontinued legacy products, and the Z670 EOL dates support using 2013 as the last widely available year. Conclusion: hardware is obsolete and low-deployment, but upstream still carries active fixes/treewide upkeep, so annotate rather than deprecate/remove.