Forgot to add dri-devel. On Fri, Sep 10, 2021 at 6:09 PM Daniel Vetter <daniel.vetter@xxxxxxxx> wrote: > > On Fri, Sep 10, 2021 at 9:58 AM Greg Kroah-Hartman > <gregkh@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > > On Fri, Sep 10, 2021 at 10:26:56AM +0300, Oded Gabbay wrote: > > > Hi Greg, > > > > > > Following our conversations a couple of months ago, I'm happy to tell you that > > > Habanalabs has open-sourced its TPC (Tensor Processing Core) LLVM compiler, > > > which is a fork of the LLVM open-source project. > > > > > > The project can be found on Habanalabs GitHub website at: > > > https://github.com/HabanaAI/tpc_llvm > > > > > > There is a companion guide on how to write TPC kernels at: > > > https://docs.habana.ai/en/latest/TPC_User_Guide/TPC_User_Guide.html > > > > That's great news, thanks for pushing for this and releasing it all! > > Yeah this is neat. > > There's still the problem that we spent the past 2.5 years pissing off > a lot of people for an imo questionable political project, bypassing > all the technical review and expertise. Now that the political > nonsense is resolved I think we need to look at at least the technical > cleanup. The angered people are much harder to fix, so let's maybe > ignore that (or perhaps a ks topic, no idea, I'm honestly not super > motivated to rehash this entire story again). Here's what I think we > should do: > > - move drivers/misc/habanalabs under drivers/gpu/habanalabs and > review/discussions on dri-devel > - grandfather the entire current situation in as-is, it's not the only > driver we have with a funny uapi of its own (but the other driver did > manage to get their compiler into upstream llvm even, and not like 2 > years late) > - review the dma-buf stuff on dri-devel and then land it through > standard flows, not the gregk-misc bypass > - close drivers/misc backdoor for further accel driver submissions, > I'd like to focus on technical stuff in this area going forward and > not pointless exercises in bypassing due process and all that > > I expect we'll have a proper discussion what the stack should look > like with the next submission (from a different vendor maybe), that > ship kinda sailed with habanalabs. > > Cheers, Daniel > -- > Daniel Vetter > Software Engineer, Intel Corporation > http://blog.ffwll.ch -- Daniel Vetter Software Engineer, Intel Corporation http://blog.ffwll.ch
