Hi, On 21.05.2024 17:10, Jeffrey Hugo wrote: > On 5/21/2024 8:41 AM, Tomeu Vizoso wrote: >> 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 > > Looks like the Intel VPU folks are missing from this thread. Hi! > I like the idea of a BoF. I suspect I will be remote but this list of topics looks good to me. Nothing obvious missing from what I can tell. I like it too and I will try to attend. I would maybe add to the list GPU/accel interoperability. Regards, Jacek
