[PATCH v3 0/3] Add support for XeLink device

Lucas De Marchi lucas.demarchi at intel.com
Fri Dec 15 16:37:32 UTC 2023


On Fri, Dec 15, 2023 at 02:50:25PM +0000, Ruhl, Michael J wrote:
>>-----Original Message-----
>>From: Kershner, David <david.kershner at intel.com>
>>Sent: Wednesday, December 13, 2023 4:45 PM
>>To: Kershner, David <david.kershner at intel.com>; intel-
>>xe at lists.freedesktop.org; Ruhl, Michael J <michael.j.ruhl at intel.com>; Fleck,
>>John <john.fleck at intel.com>; De Marchi, Lucas <lucas.demarchi at intel.com>;
>>Vivi, Rodrigo <rodrigo.vivi at intel.com>; Roper, Matthew D
>><matthew.d.roper at intel.com>
>>Subject: [PATCH v3 0/3] Add support for XeLink device
>>
>>First patch set introduce the needed Xe infrastructure to support
>>XeLink device.
>>
>>The XeLink device is a glue-less module attached to a GPU device that
>>provides connectivity between different GPUs on the same system.
>>
>>The XeLink is part of the GPU (the register space is part of the GPU
>>PCIe BAR), so it cannot be a completely separate device driver.
>>
>>The Linux kernel provides an interface for handling this type of
>>device, the Auxiliary Bus API.
>>
>>The Xe and XeLink will use the auxiliary bus to enable the XeLink
>>and the Xe to probe and communicate.
>>
>>A followup series will include the XeLink driver code to provide
>>full functionality for the device.
>>
>>Changes from version 1:
>>	- Fix kernel-doc error
>>Changes from version 2:
>>	- Fix up rebase conflicts
>
>For the series:
>
>Reviewed-by: Michael J. Ruhl <michael.j.ruhl at intel.com>

Hold on on merging this as it touches the uapi and we are in the
final phase of uapi cleanup for upstream submission. We don't want
last minute additions there.

Lucas De Marchi


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