linux-drivers/
drivers/video/fbdev/mmp/hw

Marvell MMP2 and PXA910 mobile SoC display controllers

The framebuffer hardware block found inside Marvell's older MMP-series mobile application processors, including the PXA910/PXA920 and the dual-core PXA688 (MMP2). These chips powered budget smartphones, tablets, and handheld devices around 2010–2013 before Marvell shifted its mobile line to the newer ARMADA PXA1908 family.

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recommendation

Worth keeping but flagging as legacy because the underlying Marvell mobile SoCs were already superseded by 2014 and any remaining users are on long-lived embedded gear. Upstream activity in 2024 amounted to small janitorial fixes rather than active development, and there is no removal discussion, so leaving it in place with a note about its narrow legacy scope is the right call.

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sources

  1. lore.kernel.org

    Recent upstream traffic exists for this driver family in 2024, but it is small-scale maintenance rather than feature work or removal.

  2. docs.kernel.org

    The supported SoC family is Marvell MMP/MMP2: specifically PXA910/PXA920 and PXA688 (MMP2), identifying this as an old Marvell mobile SoC display block.

  3. marvell.com

    Marvell had already moved its mobile SoC line to much newer ARMADA Mobile PXA1908-class parts by 2014, indicating PXA910/MMP2-era parts were already superseded long before 2025.

codex reasoning notes (technical)

Local exec_command inspection showed this subtree is a real fbdev driver module, not just helper code: Kconfig names 'Marvell MMP display hw controller support' for PXA910/MMP2 and mmp_ctrl.c has module_init. The lore URL came from mcp__lore_http__.lore_activity on mmp_ctrl.c; it shows recent but light janitorial maintenance and no obvious removal discussion. The docs.kernel.org and Marvell newsroom URLs were obtained via web search/open; together they place the hardware in Marvell's older MMP/PXA mobile SoC line, long superseded by newer mobile parts. Because deployments are likely only legacy/embedded and there is still some upstream fixup traffic, keep-annotate fits better than deprecate/remove.