From: Greg KH <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
To: Alison Wang <alison.wang@nxp.com>
Cc: "linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org" <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>,
"linux-arm-kernel@lists.infradead.org"
<linux-arm-kernel@lists.infradead.org>,
Leo Li <leoyang.li@nxp.com>, Forrest Shi <xuelin.shi@nxp.com>,
"X.F. Ren" <xiaofeng.ren@nxp.com>, Feng Guo <feng.guo@nxp.com>
Subject: Re: [EXT] Re: [PATCH 0/8] ethosu: Add Arm Ethos-U driver
Date: Fri, 16 Jun 2023 11:04:21 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <2023061646-coil-broadly-9efc@gregkh> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <AM9PR04MB89076472B9A29DDFFB2F958CF458A@AM9PR04MB8907.eurprd04.prod.outlook.com>
On Fri, Jun 16, 2023 at 08:26:28AM +0000, Alison Wang wrote:
>
> On Fri, Jun 16, 2023 at 01:59:05PM +0800, Alison Wang wrote:
> > This series contains Arm's NPU Ethos-U driver for NXP i.MX93 platform.
> >
> > Ethos-U Linux driver is to provide an example of how a rich operating
> > system like Linux can dispatch inferences to an Arm Cortex-M
> > subsystem, consisting of an Arm Cortex-M and an Arm Ethos-U NPU.
>
> What is an "inference"?
> [Alison Wang] The inference here means machine learning inference. It is the process of
> running data points into a machine learning model to calculate an output such as a single
> numerical score. For example, we use this driver, user space application and Cortex-M firmware
> to complete an inference about image classification.
Nice, so why isn't this under drivers/accel/ then? Does it not need
that framework?
> Where are the userspace tools (if any) that are needed for this driver to work properly?
> [Alison Wang] You could refer to https://github.com/nxp-imx/ethos-u-driver-stack-imx.git .
Please put that in the documentation for the commit.
thanks,
greg k-h
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Thread overview: 25+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2023-06-16 5:59 [PATCH 0/8] ethosu: Add Arm Ethos-U driver Alison Wang
2023-06-16 5:59 ` [PATCH 1/8] " Alison Wang
2023-06-16 6:25 ` Greg KH
2023-06-16 8:28 ` [EXT] " Alison Wang
2023-06-16 15:08 ` Andrew Lunn
2023-07-06 6:01 ` Alison Wang
2023-06-16 6:26 ` Greg KH
2023-06-16 8:28 ` [EXT] " Alison Wang
2023-06-16 10:42 ` kernel test robot
2023-06-16 15:49 ` Robin Murphy
2023-06-16 17:16 ` kernel test robot
2023-06-24 18:30 ` kernel test robot
2023-06-16 5:59 ` [PATCH 2/8] ethosu: Use RPMsg messaging protocol based on i.MX Rpmsg implementation Alison Wang
2023-06-16 5:59 ` [PATCH 3/8] ethosu: Add inference type option for model and op Alison Wang
2023-06-16 5:59 ` [PATCH 4/8] ethosu: Add suspend/resume power management Alison Wang
2023-06-16 5:59 ` [PATCH 5/8] ethosu: Use ids for identifying messages sent to Ethos-U firmware Alison Wang
2023-06-16 5:59 ` [PATCH 6/8] ethosu: Add core message about network info Alison Wang
2023-06-16 5:59 ` [PATCH 7/8] ethosu: Add core message about inference cancellation Alison Wang
2023-06-16 16:13 ` kernel test robot
2023-06-16 5:59 ` [PATCH 8/8] ethosu: Add rwlock when alloc and remove msg id Alison Wang
2023-06-16 6:22 ` [PATCH 0/8] ethosu: Add Arm Ethos-U driver Greg KH
2023-06-16 8:26 ` [EXT] " Alison Wang
2023-06-16 9:04 ` Greg KH [this message]
2023-06-16 10:47 ` Alison Wang
2023-06-16 11:11 ` Greg KH
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