[PATCH v6 0/7] New DRM accel driver for Intel VPU
Jacek Lawrynowicz
jacek.lawrynowicz at linux.intel.com
Thu Jan 19 11:57:55 UTC 2023
Hi,
On 19.01.2023 12:11, Daniel Vetter wrote:
> On Tue, Jan 17, 2023 at 10:27:16AM +0100, Jacek Lawrynowicz wrote:
>> Hi,
>>
>> This patchset contains a new Linux* Kernel Driver for Intel® VPUs.
>>
>> VPU stands for Versatile Processing Unit and it is an AI inference accelerator
>> integrated with Intel non-server CPUs starting from 14th generation.
>> VPU enables efficient execution of Deep Learning applications
>> like object detection, classification etc.
>>
>> The whole driver is licensed under GPL-2.0-only except for two headers imported
>> from the firmware that are MIT licensed.
>>
>> User space stack is open source and available at:
>> - UMD driver: https://github.com/intel/linux-vpu-driver
>> - Compiler and OpenVINO plugin: https://github.com/openvinotoolkit/vpux-plugin
>>
>> The firmware for the VPU will be distributed as a closed source binary in
>> the UMD driver repo.
>>
>> This is hopefully the last revision of the patchset with minor changes outlined
>> below.
> Entire series pushed to drm-misc-next, thanks a lot and apologies that
> this all got hold up for longer than usual with the drivers/accel
> transition. But hopefully bright future ahead!
Sure. Thanks for guidance and support.
The driver got definitely a lot better because of the upstreaming process.
Regards,
Jacek
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