AMDXDNA Driver For Ryzen AI Now Ready To Appear In The Linux Kernel

[phoronix]

Phoronix: AMDXDNA Driver For Ryzen AI Now Ready To Appear In The Linux kernel

The AMDXDNA kernel driver for Linux systems that was made open-source in January for supporting the Ryzen AI NPU on laptop SoCs going back to the Ryzen 7040 "Phoenix" series is now one step away from appearing in the mainline Linux kernel in the near future...

https://www.phoronix.com/news/AMDXDNA-DRM-Misc-Next

[Adarion]

A bit peculiar to put this under DRM, but anyway, nice to have. Not that I have one of these CPUs, yet. And yes, it would have been nice at launch day, but hopefully people will now have a nicely reviewed driver. Now it would of course be fine if we had means to see what calculations could be offloaded to this ASIC and software that would be using it once available.

[Michael]

A bit peculiar to put this under DRM, but anyway, nice to have. Not that I have one of these CPUs, yet. And yes, it would have been nice at launch day, but hopefully people will now have a nicely reviewed driver. Now it would of course be fine if we had means to see what calculations could be offloaded to this ASIC and software that would be using it once available.

It's under DRM because the accelerator "accel" subsystem is under the DRM umbrella due to commonality with GPUs/drivers.

[euduvda]

And yes, it would have been nice at launch day, but hopefully people will now have a nicely reviewed driver. Now it would of course be fine if we had means to see what calculations could be offloaded to this ASIC and software that would be using it once available.

I have one of these and I'm curious for what uses it will really have!

[oleid]

Sadly, llama.cpp doesn't support NPUs, yet, AFAIK.

[Errinwright]

Will video upscaling be supported for media use-cases?

[loganj]

is there even an app that use this (or any AI) on linux? something similar to windows at least.

[David Huang]

Sadly, llama.cpp doesn't support NPUs, yet, AFAIK.

There's a Xilinx fork of llama.cpp in the RyzenAI-SW repo that supports running on NPU. Unfortunately its rather PoC-style rather than a mature implementation, and its device kernel was not open source, so it's hard to contribute to the project and improve the quality.

[Ferrum Master]

is there even an app that use this (or any AI) on linux? something similar to windows at least.

You can use tensorflow libs for PhotoPrism as pretty basic thing, if you manage it get them working. I kinda avoid some piece of software that haven't managed to put delete all buttons where they should be, basically everywhere.

[nuetzel]

Maybe Zen 6 comes with NPU.
It's time.