Intel XMM 7360/7560 M.2 PCIe WWAN modems (IOSM)
Host-side support for Intel's XMM 7360 and XMM 7560 LTE modems, sold as M.2 PCIe cards that plug into laptops and embedded devices to provide cellular data through a standard MBIM interface. These modules shipped in business laptops in the late 2010s and continue to appear in some Fibocom-branded M.2 cards still on sale today.
recommendation
Worth keeping but documenting its niche, because the modem family is on a legacy trajectory: Intel sold most of its smartphone modem business to Apple in 2019, so no new chips in this line are coming. That said, the driver is still listed as Maintained, has received fixes through 2024 and 2025, and the underlying M.2 modules remain available from third parties like Fibocom, so a working population of users still depends on it.
repository signals
sources
- kernel.org
Kernel MAINTAINERS lists `drivers/net/wwan/iosm/` as `INTEL WWAN IOSM DRIVER` with status `Maintained`.
- cateee.net
LKDDb shows CONFIG_IOSM still present through current kernel series and maps the driver to PCI IDs 8086:7360 and 8086:7560.
- docs.kernel.org
Current kernel documentation describes iosm as the host driver for Intel M.2 PCIe modems exposing MBIM WWAN interfaces.
- intc.com
Intel sold the majority of its smartphone modem business to Apple in 2019, indicating the supported Intel modem family is legacy rather than a growth line.
- fibocom.com
A current vendor product page for Fibocom L850-GL shows an actively marketed M.2 LTE module in this device class, implying some new-sales tail remains in 2025.
codex reasoning notes (technical)
Local shell inspection of `iosm_ipc_pcie.c` found PCI IDs 7360/7560, tying the driver to Intel XMM7360/XMM7560-class modems. `web.search_query` found no lore.kernel removal/deprecation hits for iosm, while a local `git -c safe.directory=... log` showed fixes/treewide touches in 2024-2025 and the prompt already reports a substantive touch on 2026-01-04, so this is not abandonment/removal territory. The cited URLs were obtained via `web.search_query`: MAINTAINERS for maintained status, LKDDb for ongoing kernel presence and PCI IDs, docs.kernel for current functionality, Intel's 2019 press release for legacy-family context, and Fibocom's product page for evidence of residual new-sales. Recommendation is `keep-annotate` because upstream activity is real, but deployments appear niche and declining rather than broad-growth.