Re: DRM Accel BoF at Linux Plumbers

[Jeffrey Hugo]

On 5/21/2024 8:41 AM, Tomeu Vizoso wrote:
> On Tue, May 21, 2024 at 2:12 PM Daniel Vetter <daniel@xxxxxxxx> wrote:
> > On Sat, May 18, 2024 at 10:46:01AM +0200, Tomeu Vizoso wrote:
> > > Hi,
> > >
> > > I would like to use the chance at the next Plumbers to discuss the
> > > present challenges related to ML accelerators in mainline.
> > >
> > > I'm myself more oriented towards edge-oriented deployments, and don't
> > > know enough about how these accelerators are being used in the cloud
> > > (and maybe desktop?) to tell if there is enough overlap to warrant a
> > > common BoF.
> > >
> > > In any case, these are the topics I would like to discuss, some
> > > probably more relevant to the edge than to the cloud or desktop:
> > >
> > > * What is stopping vendors from mainlining their drivers?
> > >
> > > * How could we make it easier for them?
> > >
> > > * Userspace API: how close are we from a common API that we can ask
> > > userspace drivers to implement? What can be done to further this goal?
> > >
> > > * Automated testing: DRM CI can be used, but would be good to have a
> > > common test suite to run there. This is probably dependent on a common
> > > userspace API.
> > >
> > > * Other shared userspace infrastructure (compiler, execution,
> > > synchronization, virtualization, ...)
> > >
> > > * Firmware-mediated IP: what should we do about it, if anything?
> > >
> > > * Any standing issues in DRM infra (GEM, gpu scheduler, DMABuf, etc)
> > > that are hurting accel drivers?
> > >
> > > What do people think, should we have a drivers/accel-wide BoF at
> > > Plumbers? If so, what other topics should we have in the agenda?
> >
> > Yeah sounds good, and I'll try to at least attend lpc this year since it's
> > rather close ... Might be good to explicitly ping teams of merged and
> > in-flight drivers we have in accel already.
>
> Sounds like a good idea to me. Will check if the people that sent the
> previous aborted attempts are still interested in this

Looks like the Intel VPU folks are missing from this thread.

I like the idea of a BoF.  I suspect I will be remote but this list of 
topics looks good to me.  Nothing obvious missing from what I can tell.

-Jeff