Re: [MAINTAINER SUMMIT] User-space requirements for accelerator drivers

2021-09-14 Thread Arnd Bergmann
On Tue, Sep 14, 2021 at 11:23 AM Daniel Vetter wrote: > On Tue, Sep 14, 2021 at 11:09 AM Arnd Bergmann wrote: > > I can see two reasons why one would want to support a type (a) > > interface even with the more versatile devices: > > > > - It can be done in a generic

Re: [MAINTAINER SUMMIT] User-space requirements for accelerator drivers

2021-09-13 Thread Arnd Bergmann
>n Mon, Sep 13, 2021 at 3:54 PM Daniel Vetter wrote: > > One straightforward hardware independent low-level API would > > be the traditional BLAS GEMM call[1] for matrix multiplication > > and its variants (integer, float, bfloat16, ...). Most of the frameworks > > are able to use SGEMM to do th

Re: [MAINTAINER SUMMIT] User-space requirements for accelerator drivers

2021-09-13 Thread Arnd Bergmann
On Mon, Sep 13, 2021 at 12:51 AM Linus Walleij wrote: > On Sun, Sep 12, 2021 at 11:13 PM Dave Airlie wrote: > > > For userspace components as well these communities of experts need to > > exist for each domain, and we need to encourage upstream first > > processes across the board for these split