[RFC PATCH v2 1/3] drivers/accel: define kconfig and register a new major

[Oded Gabbay]

On Thu, Nov 3, 2022 at 12:58 AM Randy Dunlap <rdunlap at infradead.org> wrote:
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> On 11/2/22 13:34, Oded Gabbay wrote:
> > diff --git a/drivers/accel/Kconfig b/drivers/accel/Kconfig
> > new file mode 100644
> > index 000000000000..282ea24f90c5
> > --- /dev/null
> > +++ b/drivers/accel/Kconfig
> > @@ -0,0 +1,24 @@
> > +# SPDX-License-Identifier: GPL-2.0-only
> > +#
> > +# Compute Acceleration device configuration
> > +#
> > +# This framework provides support for compute acceleration devices, such
> > +# as, but not limited to, Machine-Learning and Deep-Learning acceleration
> > +# devices
> > +#
> > +menuconfig ACCEL
> > +     tristate "Compute Acceleration Framework"
> > +     depends on DRM
> > +     help
> > +       Framework for device drivers of compute acceleration devices, such
> > +       as, but not limited to, Machine-Learning and Deep-Learning
> > +       acceleration devices.
> > +       If you say Y here, you need to select the module that's right for
> > +       your acceleration device from the list below.
> > +       This framework is integrated with the DRM subsystem as compute
> > +       accelerators and GPUs share a lot in common and can use almost the
> > +       same infrastructure code.
> > +       Having said that, acceleration devices will have a different
> > +       major number than GPUs, and will be exposed to user-space using
> > +       different device files, called accel/accel* (in /dev, sysfs
> > +       and debugfs)
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> Please add a period at the end of the help text.
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> +         and debugfs).
sure, thx.
Oded
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> ~Randy