Re: [PATCH v7 00/10] New DRM accel driver for Rockchip's RKNN NPU

From: Heiko Stuebner
Date: Fri Jun 20 2025 - 05:29:25 EST


Am Freitag, 6. Juni 2025, 08:28:20 Mitteleuropäische Sommerzeit schrieb Tomeu Vizoso:
> This series adds a new driver for the NPU that Rockchip includes in its
> newer SoCs, developed by them on the NVDLA base.
>
> In its current form, it supports the specific NPU in the RK3588 SoC.
>
> The userspace driver is part of Mesa and an initial draft can be found at:
>
> https://gitlab.freedesktop.org/mesa/mesa/-/merge_requests/29698
>
> Signed-off-by: Tomeu Vizoso <tomeu@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>

> ---
> Nicolas Frattaroli (2):
> arm64: dts: rockchip: add pd_npu label for RK3588 power domains
> arm64: dts: rockchip: enable NPU on ROCK 5B
>
> Tomeu Vizoso (8):
> accel/rocket: Add registers header
> accel/rocket: Add a new driver for Rockchip's NPU
> accel/rocket: Add IOCTL for BO creation
> accel/rocket: Add job submission IOCTL
> accel/rocket: Add IOCTLs for synchronizing memory accesses
> dt-bindings: npu: rockchip,rknn: Add bindings
> arm64: dts: rockchip: Add nodes for NPU and its MMU to rk3588-base
> arm64: dts: rockchip: Enable the NPU on quartzpro64

from a handling point of view, I would expect patch 1 - 6
(driver code + dt-binding patch) to go through some driver tree
but have not clue which one that is.

And afterwards, I would pick up the arm64 devicetree additions
patches 7 - 10 .


Heiko