From: Thomas Zimmermann <tzimmermann@suse.de>
To: Daniel Vetter <daniel.vetter@ffwll.ch>
Cc: Alex Deucher <alexdeucher@gmail.com>,
Arnd Bergmann <arnd@arndb.de>, Jonathan Corbet <corbet@lwn.net>,
Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>,
Dragan Cvetic <dragan.cvetic@xilinx.com>,
"open list:DOCUMENTATION" <linux-doc@vger.kernel.org>,
Linux Kernel Mailing List <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>,
DRI Development <dri-devel@lists.freedesktop.org>,
Maciej Kwapulinski <maciej.kwapulinski@linux.intel.com>,
Andy Shevchenko <andy.shevchenko@gmail.com>,
Derek Kiernan <derek.kiernan@xilinx.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH v3 00/14] Driver of Intel(R) Gaussian & Neural Accelerator
Date: Mon, 17 May 2021 22:15:48 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <c28703a4-6936-15f2-730f-c3d96e1326a5@suse.de> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <CAKMK7uFyTM9NQzhtOv-ABemYThLE2CnA=OYRiJwe7YwgotfLPA@mail.gmail.com>
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Hi
Am 17.05.21 um 22:00 schrieb Daniel Vetter:
>> Sharing common code among subsystems is not a problem. Many of our
>> more-sophisticated helpers are located in DRM because no other
>> subsystems have the requirements yet. Maybe AI now has and we can move
>> the rsp shareable code to a common location. But AI is still no GPU. To
>> give a bad analogy: GPUs transmit audio these days. Yet we don't treat
>> them as sound cards.
>
> We actually do, there are full blown sound drivers for them over in
> sound/ (ok I think they're all in sound/hda for pci gpus or in
> sound/soc actually). There's some glue to tie it together because it
> requires coordination between the gpu and sound side of things, but
> that's it.
I know. But we don't merge both subsystems, just because the devices
have some overlap in functionality.
Best regards
Thomas
>
> Also I think it would be extremely silly to remove all the drm_ stuff
> just because it's originated from GPUs, and therefore absolutely
> cannot be used by other accelarators. I'm not seeing the point in
> that, but if someone has convincing technical argument for this we
> could do it. A tree wide s/drm_/xpu_ might make some sense perhaps if
> that makes people more comfortable with the idea of reusing code from
> gpu origins for accelerators in general.
> -Daniel
>
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Thomas Zimmermann
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Thread overview: 54+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2021-05-13 11:00 [PATCH v3 00/14] Driver of Intel(R) Gaussian & Neural Accelerator Maciej Kwapulinski
2021-05-13 11:00 ` [PATCH v3 01/14] intel_gna: add driver module Maciej Kwapulinski
2021-05-13 11:13 ` Greg Kroah-Hartman
2021-05-13 11:00 ` [PATCH v3 02/14] intel_gna: add component of hardware operation Maciej Kwapulinski
2021-05-13 11:15 ` Greg Kroah-Hartman
2021-05-13 11:00 ` [PATCH v3 03/14] intel_gna: read hardware info in the driver Maciej Kwapulinski
2021-05-13 11:00 ` [PATCH v3 04/14] intel_gna: add memory handling Maciej Kwapulinski
2021-05-13 11:00 ` [PATCH v3 05/14] intel_gna: initialize mmu Maciej Kwapulinski
2021-05-13 11:00 ` [PATCH v3 06/14] intel_gna: add hardware ids Maciej Kwapulinski
2021-05-13 11:00 ` [PATCH v3 07/14] intel_gna: add request component Maciej Kwapulinski
2021-05-13 11:00 ` [PATCH v3 08/14] intel_gna: implement scoring Maciej Kwapulinski
2021-05-13 11:00 ` [PATCH v3 09/14] intel_gna: add a work queue to process scoring requests Maciej Kwapulinski
2021-05-13 11:00 ` [PATCH v3 10/14] intel_gna: add interrupt handler Maciej Kwapulinski
2021-05-13 11:00 ` [PATCH v3 11/14] intel_gna: add ioctl handler Maciej Kwapulinski
2021-05-13 11:24 ` Greg Kroah-Hartman
2021-05-14 8:20 ` Maciej Kwapulinski
2021-05-14 8:32 ` Greg Kroah-Hartman
2021-05-24 10:43 ` Maciej Kwapulinski
2021-05-24 10:49 ` Greg Kroah-Hartman
2021-05-25 7:50 ` Maciej Kwapulinski
2021-05-13 14:16 ` Matthew Wilcox
[not found] ` <20210514101253.1037-1-hdanton@sina.com>
2021-05-14 15:06 ` Maciej Kwapulinski
2021-05-13 11:00 ` [PATCH v3 12/14] intel_gna: add a 'misc' device Maciej Kwapulinski
2021-05-13 11:18 ` Greg Kroah-Hartman
2021-05-13 17:06 ` Maciej Kwapulinski
2021-05-13 17:15 ` Greg Kroah-Hartman
2021-05-13 11:00 ` [PATCH v3 13/14] intel_gna: add file operations to " Maciej Kwapulinski
2021-05-13 11:19 ` Greg Kroah-Hartman
2021-05-13 11:00 ` [PATCH v3 14/14] intel_gna: add power management Maciej Kwapulinski
2021-05-14 8:34 ` [PATCH v3 00/14] Driver of Intel(R) Gaussian & Neural Accelerator Greg Kroah-Hartman
2021-05-14 9:00 ` Arnd Bergmann
2021-05-17 7:40 ` Daniel Vetter
2021-05-17 8:00 ` Greg Kroah-Hartman
2021-05-17 8:49 ` Daniel Vetter
2021-05-17 8:55 ` Greg Kroah-Hartman
2021-05-17 9:12 ` Daniel Vetter
2021-05-17 18:04 ` Dave Airlie
2021-05-17 19:12 ` Thomas Zimmermann
2021-05-17 19:23 ` Alex Deucher
2021-05-17 19:39 ` Daniel Vetter
2021-05-17 19:49 ` Thomas Zimmermann
2021-05-17 20:00 ` Daniel Vetter
2021-05-17 20:15 ` Thomas Zimmermann [this message]
2021-05-17 19:32 ` Daniel Stone
2021-05-17 20:10 ` Thomas Zimmermann
2021-05-17 21:24 ` Daniel Vetter
2021-05-17 21:36 ` Dave Airlie
2021-06-16 7:38 ` Maciej Kwapulinski
2022-06-20 9:49 ` maciej.kwapulinski
2022-06-20 9:56 ` Greg KH
2022-06-20 10:08 ` Maciej Kwapulinski
2022-06-20 10:26 ` Greg KH
2022-06-25 17:25 ` Daniel Vetter
2021-05-20 11:58 ` Linus Walleij
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