Amlogic Meson SoC power-domain controllers
Controls the on-chip power domains (which blocks of silicon are powered up or gated off) on Amlogic's Meson family of ARM SoCs, covering everything from the older Meson8 and GXBB through G12A, SM1, T7 and the newer A4, A5, C3, S6, S7 and S7D parts found in Android TV boxes, smart TVs, and AIoT devices from the mid-2010s through today.
recommendation
It should stay because Amlogic engineers are still actively upstreaming new code here, with S6/S7/S7D SoC support landing in August 2025 and a T7 fix in March 2025. Amlogic continues to sell these chips for set-top boxes, TVs, and AIoT devices, and the only recent removal in this directory was an obsolete VPU sub-driver that the remaining code already replaces.
repository signals
sources
- lore.kernel.org
Upstream added S6/S7/S7D power-domain support in August 2025, indicating active enablement rather than retirement.
- lore.kernel.org
A T7 functional fix was merged in March 2025, showing current bug-fix traffic on supported hardware.
- lore.kernel.org
The only recent removal in this area was an obsolete superseded VPU subdriver; the remaining amlogic pmdomain drivers were kept as the active replacement.
- amlogic.com
Amlogic's current product catalog still lists active TV/STB/AIoT SoCs, supporting the conclusion that this SoC family remains in new-product use.
- amlogic.com
Amlogic news items in 2025-2026 still announce new set-top-box products around current SoCs, supporting ongoing commercial deployment.
codex reasoning notes (technical)
Local file inspection via shell showed real platform drivers for Amlogic generic power domains, not helper code. The three lore URLs were obtained from `git log` on this directory, which exposed their lore.kernel.org links in commit metadata; they show active 2025 feature work/fixes and only removal of an older superseded subdriver. The two amlogic.com URLs were obtained by web search and indicate the vendor still markets and ships relevant SoC families. No natural replacement exists for the current directory as a whole; this is the in-tree implementation for these PM domains.