On Fri, Jan 25, 2019 at 7:17 PM Olof Johansson <olof@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: > > Per discussion in on the Habana Labs driver submission > (https://lore.kernel.org/lkml/20190123000057.31477-1-oded.gabbay@xxxxxxxxx/), > there seems to be time to create a separate subsystem for hw accellerators > instead of letting them proliferate around the tree (and/or in misc). > > There's difference in opinion on how stringent the requirements are for > a fully open stack for these kind of drivers. I've documented the middle > road approach in the first patch (requiring some sort of open low-level > userspace for the kernel interaction, and a way to use/test it). > > Comments and suggestions for better approaches are definitely welcome. We probably want to move drivers/misc/mic together with the others as well. We could even move arch/powerpc/platforms/cell/spu*/ for another historic example. Arnd
