Source: linux Version: 6.10.4-1 Severity: wishlist Tags: patch X-Debbugs-Cc: jair.gonza...@linux.intel.com, miguel.bernal.ma...@linux.intel.com
Dear Maintainer, Please enable the HabanaLabs AI accelerators (DRM_ACCEL_HABANALABS) and the Intel NPU (Neural Processing Unit) (DRM_ACCEL_IVPU) drivers. They both depend on the Compute Acceleration Framework (DRM_ACCEL). Habana's AI Processors (AIP) are designed to accelerate Deep Learning inference and training workloads. The driver manages the PCIe devices and provides the IOCTL interface for the user to submit workloads to the devices. The module is defined in drivers/accel/habanalabs/Kconfig, while the user-space interface is described in include/uapi/drm/habanalabs_accel.h Intel NPU (formerly called Intel VPU) is a CPU-integrated inference accelerator for Computer Vision and Deep Learning applications. This option is useful for systems with a 14th generation Intel CPU (Meteor Lake) or newer. The module is defined in drivers/accel/ivpu/Kconfig. The Compute Accelerator Framework targets device drivers of compute acceleration devices, such as, but not limited to, Machine-Learning and Deep-Learning acceleration devices. 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). A MR was created with this proposal at: https://salsa.debian.org/kernel-team/linux/-/merge_requests/1165 Thanks, Jair Gonzalez
