Matrox Millennium, Mystique, and G-Series framebuffer driver
Framebuffer support for Matrox's late-1990s and early-2000s PCI/AGP graphics cards, covering the Millennium, Millennium II, Mystique and Mystique 220, plus the G100, G200, G400, G450 and G550 chips that powered both consumer desktops and Matrox's professional 2D workstation cards.
recommendation
Worth keeping but documenting its niche: the hardware dates from roughly 1996 to the early 2000s and Matrox itself now treats the G550 as a historical milestone, but the code still received reviewed maintenance in mid-2025 and a newer DRM driver (mgag200) only replaces the G200 server variants, not the rest of the family. Legacy desktops, industrial systems, and embedded boxes still depend on it, so removal would be premature even though new deployments are vanishingly rare.
repository signals
sources
- lore.kernel.org
The driver still sees upstream maintenance in 2025; recent work touched matroxfb_base.c as part of a reviewed fbdev series rather than a removal series.
- cateee.net
The fbdev driver is for Matrox Millennium, Millennium II, Mystique, Mystique 220, G100, G200, G400, G450 and G550 cards.
- cateee.net
An upstream DRM/KMS driver exists for Matrox G200 chips, including original desktop G200 and server variants, but it does not replace the full older Matrox fbdev card set.
- en.wikipedia.org
The G400 family dates to 1999, and the G450/G550 generation belongs to the early-2000s Matrox desktop lineup.
- video.matrox.com
Matrox treats G550 PCIe as a historical milestone ('introduced the world's first PCIe x1 graphics cards'), indicating the family is long legacy rather than a current mainstream product line.
- video.matrox.com
Matrox still published Windows driver packages covering G550 PCIe as late as 2018, which suggests lingering legacy/embedded deployments rather than active mainstream sales.
codex reasoning notes (technical)
Not an early-exit case: this directory contains real fbdev driver code. Local `exec_command` inspection of `matroxfb_base.c` shows supported boards spanning Millennium, Mystique, G100, G200, G400, G450 and G550, so the chipset family is Matrox MGA/Millennium-Mystique/Gx00. `lore_activity` on `drivers/video/fbdev/matrox/matroxfb_base.c` produced the cited 2025 lore URL and shows ongoing upstream maintenance, but the visible work is compatibility/header churn with review, not removal. `lore_file_timeline` on the directory path returned no matches, so I did not treat that as evidence of inactivity. Web `search_query` produced the LKDDb pages and Matrox/Wikipedia pages; taken together they show very old hardware generations, a partial modern replacement only for G200 via `mgag200`, and vendor evidence of legacy support/downloads rather than current mainstream product marketing. I infer `hardware_still_sold_new_in_2025=false` and `deployments_today=low`: the hardware appears limited to legacy desktops/industrial boxes and some long-tail embedded/server uses, but active kernel maintenance argues against deprecation or removal right now, so `keep-annotate` is the defensible recommendation.