Re: New subsystem for acceleration devices

[Jiho Chu]

On Wed, 10 Aug 2022 00:42:24 +0300
Oded Gabbay <oded.gabbay@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:

> 
> Hi Jiho, Yuji.
> 
> I want to update that I'm currently in discussions with Dave to figure
> out what's the best way to move forward. We are writing it down to do
> a proper comparison between the two paths (new accel subsystem or
> using drm). I guess it will take a week or so.
> 
> In the meantime, I'm putting the accel code on hold. I have only
> managed to do the very basic infra and add a demo driver that shows
> how to register and unregister from it.
> You can check the code at:
> https://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/ogabbay/linux.git/log/?h=accel
> 
> It has two commits. The first adds the subsystem code and the second
> adds the demo driver.
> The subsystem code is basically drm code copied and renamed and
> slightly modified, but I really only worked on it for a couple of
> hours so take that into consideration.
> 
> The important thing is that the demo driver shows the basic steps are
> really simple. You need to add two function calls in your probe and
> one function call in your release. Of course you will need to supply
> some function callbacks, but I haven't got to fill that in the demo
> driver. Once you register, you get /dev/accel/ac0 and
> /dev/accel/ac_controlD64 (if you want a control device). If I were to
> continue this, the next step is to do the open and close part.
> 
> I will update once we know where things are heading. As I said, I
> imagine it can take a few weeks.
> 
> Thanks,
> Oded
> 

Hi Oded,
Thanks for sharing your code, it looks good start from basic drm code.
I hope the discussion makes better result.

Thanks,
Jiho Chu