Post Syndicated from original https://lwn.net/Articles/904776/

There was a time when care had to be taking when buying hardware if the
goal was to run Linux on it. The situation has improved considerably in
recent decades, and unsupported hardware is more the exception than the
rule. That has, for many years, been especially true of Intel hardware;
that company has made a point of ensuring that its offerings work with
Linux. So it is a bit surprising that the IPU6 image processor shipped
with Alder Lake CPUs
lacks support in Linux, and is unlikely to get it anytime soon. The
problem highlighted here goes beyond just Intel, though.