Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> writes: > On Thu, May 13, 2021 at 01:00:26PM +0200, Maciej Kwapulinski wrote: >> Dear kernel maintainers, >> >> This submission is a kernel driver to support Intel(R) Gaussian & Neural >> Accelerator (Intel(R) GNA). Intel(R) GNA is a PCI-based neural co-processor >> available on multiple Intel platforms. AI developers and users can offload >> continuous inference workloads to an Intel(R) GNA device in order to free >> processor resources and save power. Noise reduction and speech recognition >> are the examples of the workloads Intel(R) GNA deals with while its usage >> is not limited to the two. > > How does this compare with the "nnpi" driver being proposed here: > https://lore.kernel.org/r/20210513085725.45528-1-guy.zadicario@xxxxxxxxx > > Please work with those developers to share code and userspace api and > tools. Having the community review two totally different apis and > drivers for the same type of functionality from the same company is > totally wasteful of our time and energy. > > thanks, > > greg k-h after consulting, we will try to share api and some kernel code between the two drivers. Following is the reference for more information: https://lore.kernel.org/lkml/20210615145755.GA25911@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx/ regards, Maciej
