On Tue, Nov 30, 2021 at 12:58:10PM +0100, Paul Menzel wrote: > If GPUs are that much better, are people already working on a FLOSS solution > for the Linux kernel, so people can “just” plug in a graphics card to > increase the speed? > > Does the Linux kernel already have an API to offload calculations to > accelerator cards, so it’s basically plug and play (with AMD graphics cards > for example using HSA/KFD)? Entropy sources, like the ChaosKey [3], work > like that. If not, would the implementation go under `lib/raid6`? I'm not very familiar with the subsystem, but I think these types of operation APIs are implemented under crypto/async_tx/.
