Re: [PATCH v2 1/3] staging: zynpu: Add driver support for ARM(China) ZHOUYI AI accelerator

Cai Huoqing
2021-11-24T09:10:00Z

On 24 11月 21 09:52:50, Greg Kroah-Hartman wrote:
> On Wed, Nov 24, 2021 at 04:46:15PM +0800, Cai Huoqing wrote:
> > ZHOUYI NPU is an AI accelerator chip which is integrated into ARM SOC,
> > such as Allwinner R329 SOC.
> > Add driver support for this AI accelerator here.
> >
> > This driver is not tandard linux style, there are some clean up works,
>
> "standard"?
will fix it
>
> > fixing code style, refactorring.
> > And it only works with a closed source usermode driver, so need to
> > reverse the libraries, and impelement it, then open source
> > the usermode driver.
>
> Who will be doing the "reversing" of the usermode driver?
I will provide the library binary, also try to implement usermode code:)
>
> We can't take this now if there's no actual users of this code that
> anyone can test. Why not just change the license of the usermode code
> now to make this simpler?
Allwinner R329 board includes this ip core, I have one to test this
driver.
The usermode code is close, I just got an library.

Thanks

Cai

>
> thanks,
>
> greg k-h