Re: [RFC PATCH 0/8] Qualcomm Cloud AI 100 driver

Jeffrey Hugo
2020-05-19T14:16:55Z

On 5/19/2020 12:57 AM, Manivannan Sadhasivam wrote:
> Hi Jeff,
>
> On Thu, May 14, 2020 at 08:07:38AM -0600, Jeffrey Hugo wrote:
>> Introduction:
>> Qualcomm Cloud AI 100 is a PCIe adapter card which contains a dedicated
>> SoC ASIC for the purpose of efficently running Deep Learning inference
>> workloads in a data center environment.
>>
>> The offical press release can be found at -
>> https://www.qualcomm.com/news/releases/2019/04/09/qualcomm-brings-power-efficient-artificial-intelligence-inference
>>
>> The offical product website is -
>> https://www.qualcomm.com/products/datacenter-artificial-intelligence
>>
>> At the time of the offical press release, numerious technology news sites
>> also covered the product. Doing a search of your favorite site is likely
>> to find their coverage of it.
>>
>> It is our goal to have the kernel driver for the product fully upstream.
>> The purpose of this RFC is to start that process. We are still doing
>> development (see below), and thus not quite looking to gain acceptance quite
>> yet, but now that we have a working driver we beleive we are at the stage
>> where meaningful conversation with the community can occur.
>>
>> Design:
>
> Can you add documentation in next revision with all this information (or more)?
> In restructured text ofc. Eventhough it is an RFC series, adding documentation
> doesn't hurt and it will help reviewers to understand the hardware better.

Sorry, saw this hit my inbox as I was sending out the next rev. There
will be another rev.

Sure. I'm open to doing that. Hmm, Documentation/misc-devices seem good?

Do you have specific additional information you think would be good?

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Jeffrey Hugo