[PATCH v7 00/10] New DRM accel driver for Rockchip's RKNN NPU

[Tomeu Vizoso]

On Fri, Jun 20, 2025 at 11:28 AM Heiko Stuebner <heiko at sntech.de> wrote:
>
> Am Freitag, 6. Juni 2025, 08:28:20 Mitteleuropäische Sommerzeit schrieb Tomeu Vizoso:
> > This series adds a new driver for the NPU that Rockchip includes in its
> > newer SoCs, developed by them on the NVDLA base.
> >
> > In its current form, it supports the specific NPU in the RK3588 SoC.
> >
> > The userspace driver is part of Mesa and an initial draft can be found at:
> >
> > https://gitlab.freedesktop.org/mesa/mesa/-/merge_requests/29698
> >
> > Signed-off-by: Tomeu Vizoso <tomeu at tomeuvizoso.net>
>
> > ---
> > Nicolas Frattaroli (2):
> >       arm64: dts: rockchip: add pd_npu label for RK3588 power domains
> >       arm64: dts: rockchip: enable NPU on ROCK 5B
> >
> > Tomeu Vizoso (8):
> >       accel/rocket: Add registers header
> >       accel/rocket: Add a new driver for Rockchip's NPU
> >       accel/rocket: Add IOCTL for BO creation
> >       accel/rocket: Add job submission IOCTL
> >       accel/rocket: Add IOCTLs for synchronizing memory accesses
> >       dt-bindings: npu: rockchip,rknn: Add bindings
> >       arm64: dts: rockchip: Add nodes for NPU and its MMU to rk3588-base
> >       arm64: dts: rockchip: Enable the NPU on quartzpro64
>
> from a handling point of view, I would expect patch 1 - 6
> (driver code + dt-binding patch) to go through some driver tree
> but have not clue which one that is.

I think Jeff Hugo would be pulling it into drm-misc? We still need a
R-b for the job submission patch, and also have the userspace driver
ready for merging.

> And afterwards, I would pick up the arm64 devicetree additions
> patches 7 - 10 .

Sounds great.

Thanks!

Tomeu