Amlogic Meson SoC reset controllers
Handles the on-chip reset controllers in Amlogic's Meson ARM SoCs, which power many Android TV boxes, smart speakers, and AIoT devices from the Meson8b and GXBB era through current AXG, A1, S4, C3, and T7 chips. It also covers the audio arbiter on A113 and SM1, letting the kernel bring hardware blocks in and out of reset.
recommendation
It should stay because Amlogic is still actively shipping Meson-family chips in 2025-era smart TVs, set-top boxes, smart speakers, and AIoT devices, and upstream developers are still adding support for newer variants (A4/A5, A1, T7) as recently as 2024-2026. There is no sign of deprecation; if anything, reset logic from related drivers is being consolidated here.
repository signals
sources
- spinics.net
A July 15, 2024 patch series added A4/A5 reset-driver support, showing active upstream feature work in this driver area rather than deprecation/removal.
- spinics.net
The July 24, 2024 discussion around auxiliary reset-driver support states it is intended to replace reset logic embedded in a related clock driver, indicating ongoing consolidation into this driver directory.
- lwn.net
An April 10, 2026 patch series adds A1 and T7 support in another Amlogic subsystem, showing those SoC families are still receiving new upstream enablement in 2026.
- amlogic.com
Amlogic's current product catalog remains active in 2026 and lists multiple contemporary SoC lines, supporting that Amlogic SoCs are still sold into new products.
- amlogic.com
Amlogic's product pages show ongoing smart-TV, set-top-box, smart-audio, and AIoT SoC offerings, matching the deployment niches covered by Meson-family reset controllers.
codex reasoning notes (technical)
Local shell inspection (`rg`, `sed`, `git -c safe.directory ... log`) confirmed this is real reset-controller driver code with recent commits through 2025-01-15 and support for newer compatibles including A1/S4/C3/T7. Lore-style evidence was obtained via web search results landing on spinics/LWN mirrors: 2024 patch traffic adds/resetworks on this directory and related reset support, with no removal-thread evidence found in the allotted search budget. Deployment evidence came from Amlogic product pages found via web search, which show the vendor still marketing current SoCs in 2026. Because the hardware family is still shipping and upstream work is active, deprecate/remove is not justified.