On Mon, 16 Sep 2019, Rhys Kidd wrote: > The Myriad ma24xx in USB Intel Neural Compute Stick and Intel Neural > Compute Stick 2 provides an API to accelerate AI inference calculations > on the dedicated SHAVE VLIW vector co-processors, which are orchestrated > by one or more LEON SPARC v8 real time cores. > > However, they need firmware to be loaded beforehand. An uninitialised > Myriad ma24xx presents with a distinctive USB ID. After firmware > loading, the device detaches from the USB bus and reattaches with a new > device ID. It can then be claimed by the usermode driver. Is there any particular reason you need to have a kernel driver load the firmware? Why can't a user program take care of it? The usb_modeswitch program does that sort of thing all the time. Alan Stern
