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NXP Neutron NPU Kernel Driver Blocked For Now By A Closed-Source User-Space Blob
news.movim.eu / Phoronix • 10:19
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Last month NXP posted open-source Linux kernel driver patches for their Neutron NPU accelerator. The NXP Neutron NPU aims to help with edge AI applications and this neural processing unit is found in their different SoCs. Unfortunately, their GitHub repository for the user-space software ends up containing a binary-only blob that will end up delaying plans on getting this driver into the mainline Linux kernel...
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