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SubjectRe: [PATCH v3 1/3] staging: zynpu: Add driver support for ARM(China) ZHOUYI AI accelerator
On 26 11月 21 07:43:34, Greg Kroah-Hartman wrote:
> On Fri, Nov 26, 2021 at 10:18:59AM +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 standard linux style, there are some clean up works,
> > 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.
> > So add this driver to linux-staging
>
> Sorry, but no, I can not take this driver into the kernel tree until
> there is an open source user of the new api that you are creating with
> this driver. This was discussed many times on the linux-kernel mailing
> list and at the Linux kernel summit a few months ago (see the summary at
> lwn.net about it.)
>
> So please work on that first, and then we will be glad to revisit taking
> this kernel driver into the tree.
OK, I will do that.
And after doing some clean up, try to take this code to the "real" linux tree.

Thanks,
Cai
>
> Also, it is much simpler just to take a few hours and clean up the
> coding style issues yourself rather than relying on the community to do
> it for you over a few months.
>
> thanks,
>
> greg k-h

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