Habana Labs Goya AI Processor Support Queued For Linux 5.1

[phoronix]

Phoronix: Habana Labs Goya AI Processor Support Queued For Linux 5.1

Published back in January were initial open-source kernel driver patches for Habana Labs' Goya processor intended for accelerating deep learning workloads. This new Habana Labs kernel driver will debut with the mainline Linux 5.1 kernel...

http://www.phoronix.com/scan.php?page=news_item&px=Goya-AI-Accelerator-Linux-5.1

[creative]

Strange names for unsettling hardware.

[microcode]

Waiting for the Gaudi, and I hope they have public pricing and availability at least for that.

[andrei_me]

What the "char" means in the tree? Misc is for miscellaneous, but the "char" I can't figure it out

[DrYak]

What the "char" means in the tree? Misc is for miscellaneous, but the "char" I can't figure it out

...as opposed to a Linux block device. This one isn't accessed in dicrete blocks (isn't accessed by sector), it just gets a stream of GPU (-like) commands sent to it.
i.e.: it accepts stream of bytes (= "char" in C/C++).
hence the "char" name of that family in the linux kernel.