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

[Jeffrey Hugo]

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
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