[PATCH V3 11/11] accel/amdxdna: Add firmware debug buffer support

Lizhi Hou lizhi.hou at amd.com
Wed Oct 9 16:22:38 UTC 2024


On 10/4/24 11:33, Jeffrey Hugo wrote:
> On 9/11/2024 12:06 PM, Lizhi Hou wrote:
>> User application may allocate a debug buffer and attach it to an NPU
>> context through the driver. Then the NPU firmware prints its debug
>> information to this buffer for debugging.
>
> I feel like I must be missing something. It looks like this patch 
> accepts a buffer from the user, and stores it. However I don't see how 
> the NPU firmware ever learns that this special buffer exists to then 
> use it.

The debug function is incomplete while I was creating the patch. Thus, I 
put a line in TODO "Improve debug bo support".

We made progress on this feature. Should I add the code to V4 patch? Or 
I can add it within future patches.


Thanks,

Lizhi



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