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Qualcomm Cloud AI 100 "AIC100" Firmware Upstreamed
While not talked about as much as the likes of the Intel Gaudi accelerators with their upstream Habana Labs kernel driver or the AMD Instinct MI300 series with their open-source upstream support too, back in 2022 Qualcomm did post an open-source kernel driver for their Cloud AI accelerator
That was followed by an open-source compiler and user-space stack and in turn the QAIC driver was upstreamed into the accelerator (accel) subsystem last year with Linux 6.4. As of today with this commit to linux-firmware.git, there are now the Qualcomm AIC100 firmware files in the upstream repository for supporting the Cloud AI 100 series hardware. Nice seeing more open-source and upstream AI accelerator support for Linux.About The AuthorMichael Larabel is the principal author of Phoronix.com and founded the site in 2004 with a focus on enriching the Linux hardware experience.
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