From: Arnd Bergmann <arnd@arndb.de>
To: Olof Johansson <olof@lixom.net>
Cc: "Linux Kernel Mailing List" <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>,
linux-accelerators@lists.ozlabs.org,
"Greg Kroah-Hartman" <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>,
"Frederic Barrat" <fbarrat@linux.ibm.com>,
"Andrew Donnellan" <andrew.donnellan@au1.ibm.com>,
ogabbay@habana.ai, "Dave Airlie" <airlied@redhat.com>,
"Jérôme Glisse" <jglisse@redhat.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH/RFC 0/5] HW accel subsystem
Date: Sat, 26 Jan 2019 22:11:46 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <CAK8P3a09qVNyCOMzuQgaivyWeOUY6d6kYGKFEAa7ertu-dUBdQ@mail.gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20190125181616.62609-1-olof@lixom.net>
On Fri, Jan 25, 2019 at 7:17 PM Olof Johansson <olof@lixom.net> wrote:
>
> Per discussion in on the Habana Labs driver submission
> (https://lore.kernel.org/lkml/20190123000057.31477-1-oded.gabbay@gmail.com/),
> there seems to be time to create a separate subsystem for hw accellerators
> instead of letting them proliferate around the tree (and/or in misc).
>
> There's difference in opinion on how stringent the requirements are for
> a fully open stack for these kind of drivers. I've documented the middle
> road approach in the first patch (requiring some sort of open low-level
> userspace for the kernel interaction, and a way to use/test it).
>
> Comments and suggestions for better approaches are definitely welcome.
We probably want to move drivers/misc/mic together with the others
as well. We could even move arch/powerpc/platforms/cell/spu*/
for another historic example.
Arnd
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2019-01-26 21:12 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 103+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2019-01-23 0:00 [PATCH 00/15] Habana Labs kernel driver Oded Gabbay
2019-01-23 0:00 ` [PATCH 01/15] habanalabs: add skeleton driver Oded Gabbay
2019-01-23 0:49 ` Joe Perches
2019-01-25 19:18 ` Oded Gabbay
2019-01-23 12:28 ` Mike Rapoport
2019-01-23 12:40 ` Greg KH
2019-01-23 12:55 ` Mike Rapoport
2019-01-25 20:09 ` Oded Gabbay
2019-01-25 20:05 ` Oded Gabbay
2019-01-26 16:05 ` Arnd Bergmann
2019-01-26 16:24 ` Oded Gabbay
2019-01-26 21:14 ` Arnd Bergmann
2019-01-26 21:48 ` Oded Gabbay
2019-01-27 8:32 ` gregkh
2019-01-29 22:49 ` Oded Gabbay
2019-01-23 0:00 ` [PATCH 03/15] habanalabs: add basic Goya support Oded Gabbay
2019-01-23 12:28 ` Mike Rapoport
2019-01-25 20:32 ` Oded Gabbay
2019-01-27 6:39 ` Mike Rapoport
2019-01-28 7:44 ` Oded Gabbay
2019-01-23 0:00 ` [PATCH 04/15] habanalabs: add context and ASID modules Oded Gabbay
2019-01-23 12:28 ` Mike Rapoport
2019-01-25 21:07 ` Oded Gabbay
2019-01-23 0:00 ` [PATCH 05/15] habanalabs: add command buffer module Oded Gabbay
2019-01-23 12:28 ` Mike Rapoport
2019-01-25 21:47 ` Oded Gabbay
2019-01-27 6:49 ` Mike Rapoport
2019-01-28 7:55 ` Oded Gabbay
2019-01-28 8:41 ` Mike Rapoport
2019-01-23 0:00 ` [PATCH 06/15] habanalabs: add basic Goya h/w initialization Oded Gabbay
2019-01-25 7:46 ` Mike Rapoport
2019-01-28 10:35 ` Oded Gabbay
2019-01-23 0:00 ` [PATCH 07/15] habanalabs: add h/w queues module Oded Gabbay
2019-01-25 7:50 ` Mike Rapoport
2019-01-28 10:50 ` Oded Gabbay
2019-01-23 0:00 ` [PATCH 08/15] habanalabs: add event queue and interrupts Oded Gabbay
2019-01-25 7:51 ` Mike Rapoport
2019-01-28 11:14 ` Oded Gabbay
2019-01-23 0:00 ` [PATCH 09/15] habanalabs: add sysfs and hwmon support Oded Gabbay
2019-01-25 7:54 ` Mike Rapoport
2019-01-28 11:26 ` Oded Gabbay
2019-01-23 0:00 ` [PATCH 10/15] habanalabs: add device reset support Oded Gabbay
2019-01-27 7:51 ` Mike Rapoport
2019-01-28 12:53 ` Oded Gabbay
2019-01-23 0:00 ` [PATCH 11/15] habanalabs: add command submission module Oded Gabbay
2019-01-27 15:11 ` Mike Rapoport
2019-01-28 13:51 ` Oded Gabbay
2019-01-23 0:00 ` [PATCH 12/15] habanalabs: add virtual memory and MMU modules Oded Gabbay
2019-01-27 16:13 ` Mike Rapoport
2019-01-30 10:34 ` Oded Gabbay
2019-01-23 0:00 ` [PATCH 13/15] habanalabs: implement INFO IOCTL Oded Gabbay
2019-01-23 0:00 ` [PATCH 14/15] habanalabs: add debugfs support Oded Gabbay
2019-01-23 0:00 ` [PATCH 15/15] Update MAINTAINERS and CREDITS with habanalabs info Oded Gabbay
2019-01-23 12:27 ` [PATCH 00/15] Habana Labs kernel driver Mike Rapoport
2019-01-23 22:43 ` Oded Gabbay
2019-01-23 21:52 ` Olof Johansson
2019-01-23 22:40 ` Oded Gabbay
2019-01-23 23:16 ` Olof Johansson
2019-01-24 1:03 ` Andrew Donnellan
2019-01-24 11:59 ` Jonathan Cameron
2019-01-25 17:13 ` Olof Johansson
2019-02-24 22:23 ` Pavel Machek
2019-01-23 21:57 ` Dave Airlie
2019-01-23 22:02 ` Dave Airlie
2019-01-23 22:31 ` Oded Gabbay
2019-01-23 22:45 ` Dave Airlie
2019-01-23 23:04 ` Olof Johansson
2019-01-23 23:20 ` Jerome Glisse
2019-01-23 23:35 ` Oded Gabbay
2019-01-23 23:41 ` Olof Johansson
2019-01-23 23:40 ` Olof Johansson
2019-01-23 23:48 ` Jerome Glisse
2019-01-24 7:35 ` Daniel Vetter
2019-01-24 9:50 ` Oded Gabbay
2019-01-24 10:22 ` Dave Airlie
2019-01-25 0:13 ` Olof Johansson
2019-01-25 7:43 ` Daniel Vetter
2019-01-25 15:02 ` Olof Johansson
2019-01-25 16:00 ` Daniel Vetter
2019-01-24 23:51 ` Olof Johansson
2019-01-23 23:23 ` Oded Gabbay
2019-01-25 7:37 ` Greg Kroah-Hartman
2019-01-25 15:33 ` Olof Johansson
2019-01-25 16:06 ` Greg Kroah-Hartman
2019-01-25 17:12 ` Olof Johansson
2019-01-25 18:16 ` [PATCH/RFC 0/5] HW accel subsystem Olof Johansson
2019-01-25 18:16 ` [PATCH 1/5] drivers/accel: Introduce subsystem Olof Johansson
2019-01-25 21:13 ` [PATCH v2 " Olof Johansson
2019-01-26 17:09 ` Randy Dunlap
2019-01-27 4:31 ` Andrew Donnellan
2019-01-28 19:36 ` Frederic Barrat
2019-01-25 22:23 ` [PATCH " Daniel Vetter
2019-01-27 16:31 ` Daniel Vetter
2019-01-25 18:16 ` [PATCH 2/5] cxl: Move to drivers/accel Olof Johansson
2019-01-25 18:16 ` [PATCH 3/5] drivers/accel: cxl: Move non-uapi include files Olof Johansson
2019-01-25 18:16 ` [PATCH 4/5] ocxl: Move to drivers/accel Olof Johansson
2019-01-25 18:16 ` [PATCH 5/5] drivers/accel: ocxl: Move non-uapi include files Olof Johansson
2019-01-26 13:51 ` Greg Kroah-Hartman
2019-01-26 21:11 ` Arnd Bergmann [this message]
2019-02-01 9:10 ` [PATCH/RFC 0/5] HW accel subsystem Kenneth Lee
2019-02-01 10:07 ` Greg Kroah-Hartman
2019-02-01 12:09 ` Kenneth Lee
2019-01-26 13:52 ` [PATCH 00/15] Habana Labs kernel driver Greg Kroah-Hartman
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