linux-kernel - [PATCH/RFC 0/5] HW accel subsystem

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Date:   Fri, 25 Jan 2019 10:16:11 -0800
From:   Olof Johansson <olof@...om.net>
To:     linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Cc:     linux-accelerators@...ts.ozlabs.org,
        Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@...uxfoundation.org>,
        Frederic Barrat <fbarrat@...ux.ibm.com>,
        Andrew Donnellan <andrew.donnellan@....ibm.com>,
        ogabbay@...ana.ai, airlied@...hat.com, jglisse@...hat.com
Subject: [PATCH/RFC 0/5] HW accel subsystem

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.