linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH v3 00/14] Driver of Intel(R) Gaussian & Neural Accelerator

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Date:   Mon, 17 May 2021 22:15:48 +0200
From:   Thomas Zimmermann <tzimmermann@...e.de>
To:     Daniel Vetter <daniel.vetter@...ll.ch>
Cc:     Alex Deucher <alexdeucher@...il.com>,
        Arnd Bergmann <arnd@...db.de>,
        Jonathan Corbet <corbet@....net>,
        Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@...uxfoundation.org>,
        Dragan Cvetic <dragan.cvetic@...inx.com>,
        "open list:DOCUMENTATION" <linux-doc@...r.kernel.org>,
        Linux Kernel Mailing List <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>,
        DRI Development <dri-devel@...ts.freedesktop.org>,
        Maciej Kwapulinski <maciej.kwapulinski@...ux.intel.com>,
        Andy Shevchenko <andy.shevchenko@...il.com>,
        Derek Kiernan <derek.kiernan@...inx.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH v3 00/14] Driver of Intel(R) Gaussian & Neural Accelerator

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
> 

-- 
Thomas Zimmermann
Graphics Driver Developer
SUSE Software Solutions Germany GmbH
Maxfeldstr. 5, 90409 Nürnberg, Germany
(HRB 36809, AG Nürnberg)
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