An Open-Source Driver Effort Has Begun For Rockchip's NPU

[phoronix]

Phoronix: An Open-Source Driver Effort Has Begun For Rockchip's NPU

Tomeu Vizoso who recently has been working on extending the Etnaviv open-source graphics driver to also support the Vivante NPU IP has made great progress on that with competitive performance to the proprietary NPU driver and upstreaming the Teflon framework into Mesa for handling the Neural Processing Unit. Tomeu Vizoso has now shifted his attention to working on an open-source, reverse-engineered NPU driver for the AI hardware found in various Rockchip SoCs...

https://www.phoronix.com/news/Open-Source-NPU-Rockchip-Starts

[aviallon]

That was fast.

[Lycanthropist]

Nice! This will be useful for Frigate.

[schmidtbag]

Pretty cool work. Not sure if I can make use of an NPU in my RK3588 but nice to know there's real progress here in the event I want to use it.

[miskol]

Are there any standard APIs for NPU ? (Something like opengl, Vulkan for 3d gfx)