[EXT] Re: [PATCH 0/8] ethosu: Add Arm Ethos-U driver

[Alison Wang]

On Fri, Jun 16, 2023 at 08:26:28AM +0000, Alison Wang wrote:
>
> On Fri, Jun 16, 2023 at 01:59:05PM +0800, Alison Wang wrote:
> > This series contains Arm's NPU Ethos-U driver for NXP i.MX93 platform.
> >
> > Ethos-U Linux driver is to provide an example of how a rich
> > operating system like Linux can dispatch inferences to an Arm
> > Cortex-M subsystem, consisting of an Arm Cortex-M and an Arm Ethos-U NPU.
>
> What is an "inference"?
> [Alison Wang] The inference here means machine learning inference. It
> is the process of running data points into a machine learning model to
> calculate an output such as a single numerical score. For example, we
> use this driver, user space application and Cortex-M firmware to complete an inference about image classification.

Nice, so why isn't this under drivers/accel/ then?  Does it not need that framework?
[Alison Wang] This driver doesn't need that framework.

> Where are the userspace tools (if any) that are needed for this driver to work properly?
> [Alison Wang] You could refer to https://github.com/nxp-imx/ethos-u-driver-stack-imx.git .

Please put that in the documentation for the commit.
[Alison Wang] Sure, I will.

thanks,

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