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  • Intel Proposes Using Netlink For Linux Graphics Driver RAS & Telemetry

    Phoronix: Intel Proposes Using Netlink For Linux Graphics Driver RAS & Telemetry

    Intel Linux kernel graphics driver developers are looking at making use of Netlink for exposing RAS (reliability, availability, serviceability) and telemetry fwatures of kernel graphics drivers to user-space for their modern GPUs...

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  • #2
    Typo 2nd line:

    fwatures > Features ????

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    • #3
      FWIW, HERM (which feeds rasdaemon with RAS events) uses tracing infrastructure to report errors to userspace. This notion of "polling sysfs for error counters" is simply outdated. Sure netlink makes sense for telemetry though.

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      • #4
        Telemetry? Spyware on OSS drivers?

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        • #5
          Let's hope they get the netlink semantics right this time, multiple of their network related APIs really messed this up and simply used netlink as a transport mechanism without any regard to established semantic conventions.

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          • #6
            Originally posted by timofonic View Post
            Telemetry? Spyware on OSS drivers?
            no, telemetry is just readings from the hardware. You just happens to fooled by Microsoft that calls their spyware Telemetry.

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            • #7
              And luckily .. FreeBSD now supports netlink.

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              • #8
                Originally posted by F.Ultra View Post

                no, telemetry is just readings from the hardware. You just happens to fooled by Microsoft that calls their spyware Telemetry.
                Thanks, I was confused too. I was thinking does the hardware phone home if you are watching DRMed content or something?

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                • #9
                  The hardware and old drivers better not, because it would of been detected earlier.

                  But in this case, "telemetry" means "reporting the GPU usage, various temperatures, FPS at card level back to the PC".

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                  • #10
                    With OCCT 'halfway through' work on Linux support, it will be well for vendors to give them something to work with.

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