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Intel Returns To Working On The Habana Labs AI Accelerator Linux Driver
After being on a hiatus for more than one year and going through several rounds of Habana Labs driver maintainers due to Intel layoffs, there finally is some updated 'habanalabs' AI accelerator kernel driver code slated to go into the upcoming Linux 6.18 kernel cycle
New Intel Habana Labs Linux driver co-maintainer Koby Elbaz announced in today's pull request: It continues the previous upstream work from tags/drm-habanalabs-next-2024-06-23, Including improvements in debug and visibility, alongside general code cleanups, and new features such as vmalloc-backed coherent mmap, HLDIO infrastructure, etc." There is now NVMe Direct I/O HLDIO, new passthrough APIs, improved hardware recovery, better error handling, and other changes with this pull request for Linux 6.18.
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