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Intel Habana Labs & Xe Linux Driver Maintainer Steps Down
Coming as a surprise, longtime Linux developer Oded Gabbay announced he's left Intel / Habana Labs and is therefore stepping down from the maintainer role of the Linux kernel drivers for the Intel Xe DRM driver and more notably the Habana Labs accelerator driver that he's maintained from the start.
For less than $4 USD per month, you can help support our site while the funds generated allow us to keep doing Linux hardware reviews, performance benchmarking, maintain our community forums, and much more. For years Oded worked on enabling the Habana Labs Goya and Gaudi AI accelerators with an open-source, upstream Linux kernel driver stack. Prior to joining Habana Labs and continuing on through the Intel acquisition, Oded briefly worked for Red Hat on the Linux graphics stack while originally got his start on this area at AMD.
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