WarpDrive Proposed For The Linux Kernel: A Generic Accelerator Framework

[phoronix]

Phoronix: WarpDrive Proposed For The Linux Kernel: A Generic Accelerator Framework

HiSilicon is looking to add WarpDrive to the Linux kernel. Not to be confused with anything from Star Trek, WarpDrive is a generic accelerator framework they have been developing...

http://www.phoronix.com/scan.php?page=news_item&px=Linux-WarpDrive-Proposal

[Venemo]

What kind of accelerator is it? Is this some sort of stuff for GPUs, or other kind of accelerators?

[phred14]

Is this something like GGI / KGI / libGGI - many years later?

[wizard69]

What kind of accelerator is it? Is this some sort of stuff for GPUs, or other kind of accelerators?

It is a mystery!

however a quick trip to the HiSilicon web site would have me guessing that we are talking high performance 8k video hardware.

[halo9en]

Documentation: http://lkml.iu.edu/hypermail/linux/k...8.0/00306.html

[agd5f]

Seems similar to HSA (http://www.hsafoundation.com/).

[TheOne]

Isn't this for accelerometer hardware like that found on smartphones?

[duby229]

Probably any type of integer processor is my guess. Basically what used to be NEC's bread and butter.

[Jumbotron]

HiSilicon is basically Huawei's in-house SoC designer. Think Apple and their A-series SoC or if Google owned Qualcomm. This sounds like a generic version of HSA.

[r1348]

Accelerator... of what?