On Tue, May 21, 2024 at 2:12 PM Daniel Vetter <daniel@xxxxxxxx> wrote: > > On Sat, May 18, 2024 at 10:46:01AM +0200, Tomeu Vizoso wrote: > > Hi, > > > > I would like to use the chance at the next Plumbers to discuss the > > present challenges related to ML accelerators in mainline. > > > > I'm myself more oriented towards edge-oriented deployments, and don't > > know enough about how these accelerators are being used in the cloud > > (and maybe desktop?) to tell if there is enough overlap to warrant a > > common BoF. > > > > In any case, these are the topics I would like to discuss, some > > probably more relevant to the edge than to the cloud or desktop: > > > > * What is stopping vendors from mainlining their drivers? > > > > * How could we make it easier for them? > > > > * Userspace API: how close are we from a common API that we can ask > > userspace drivers to implement? What can be done to further this goal? > > > > * Automated testing: DRM CI can be used, but would be good to have a > > common test suite to run there. This is probably dependent on a common > > userspace API. > > > > * Other shared userspace infrastructure (compiler, execution, > > synchronization, virtualization, ...) > > > > * Firmware-mediated IP: what should we do about it, if anything? > > > > * Any standing issues in DRM infra (GEM, gpu scheduler, DMABuf, etc) > > that are hurting accel drivers? > > > > What do people think, should we have a drivers/accel-wide BoF at > > Plumbers? If so, what other topics should we have in the agenda? > > Yeah sounds good, and I'll try to at least attend lpc this year since it's > rather close ... Might be good to explicitly ping teams of merged and > in-flight drivers we have in accel already. Sounds like a good idea to me. Will check if the people that sent the previous aborted attempts are still interested in this. Cheers, Tomeu > I think the topic list is at least a good starting point. > > Cheers, Sima > -- > Daniel Vetter > Software Engineer, Intel Corporation > http://blog.ffwll.ch
