[$] The growing image-processor unpleasantness

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