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Rob Herring (Arm) 5a5e9c0228 accel: Add Arm Ethos-U NPU driver
Add a driver for Arm Ethos-U65/U85 NPUs. The Ethos-U NPU has a
relatively simple interface with single command stream to describe
buffers, operation settings, and network operations. It supports up to 8
memory regions (though no h/w bounds on a region). The Ethos NPUs
are designed to use an SRAM for scratch memory. Region 2 is reserved
for SRAM (like the downstream driver stack and compiler). Userspace
doesn't need access to the SRAM.

The h/w has no MMU nor external IOMMU and is a DMA engine which can
read and write anywhere in memory without h/w bounds checks. The user
submitted command streams must be validated against the bounds of the
GEM BOs. This is similar to the VC4 design which validates shaders.

The job submit is based on the rocket driver for the Rockchip NPU
utilizing the GPU scheduler. It is simpler as there's only 1 core rather
than 3.

Tested on i.MX93 platform (U65) and FVP (U85) with Mesa Teflon
support.

Acked-by: Thomas Zimmermann <tzimmermann@suse.de>
Acked-by: Tomeu Vizoso <tomeu@tomeuvizoso.net>
Reviewed-by: Frank Li <Frank.Li@nxp.com>
Link: https://patch.msgid.link/20251020-ethos-v6-2-ecebc383c4b7@kernel.org
Signed-off-by: Rob Herring (Arm) <robh@kernel.org>
2025-10-24 15:07:39 -05:00
arch - Reset the why-the-system-rebooted register on AMD to avoid stale bits 2025-10-19 04:41:27 -10:00
block block-6.18-20251016 2025-10-17 08:31:26 -07:00
certs sign-file,extract-cert: use pkcs11 provider for OPENSSL MAJOR >= 3 2024-09-20 19:52:48 +03:00
crypto This push contains the following changes: 2025-10-10 08:56:16 -07:00
Documentation dt-bindings: npu: Add Arm Ethos-U65/U85 2025-10-24 15:07:39 -05:00
drivers accel: Add Arm Ethos-U NPU driver 2025-10-24 15:07:39 -05:00
fs Description for this pull request: 2025-10-18 07:23:59 -10:00
include accel: Add Arm Ethos-U NPU driver 2025-10-24 15:07:39 -05:00
init printk changes for 6.18 2025-10-04 11:13:11 -07:00
io_uring io_uring/rw: check for NULL io_br_sel when putting a buffer 2025-10-15 13:38:53 -06:00
ipc namespace-6.18-rc1 2025-09-29 11:20:29 -07:00
kernel drm-misc-next for v6.19: 2025-10-24 13:25:20 +02:00
lib lib/test_kho: use kho_preserve_vmalloc instead of storing addresses in fdt 2025-10-07 13:48:56 -07:00
LICENSES LICENSES: Replace the obsolete address of the FSF in the GFDL-1.2 2025-07-24 11:15:39 +02:00
mm slab: reset slab->obj_ext when freeing and it is OBJEXTS_ALLOC_FAIL 2025-10-16 15:16:45 +02:00
net bpf-fixes 2025-10-18 08:00:43 -10:00
rust rust: bitmap: fix formatting 2025-10-17 13:02:22 +02:00
samples Char/Misc/IIO/Binder changes for 6.18-rc1 2025-10-04 16:26:32 -07:00
scripts Kbuild fixes for 6.18 #1 2025-10-11 15:47:12 -07:00
security integrity-v6.18 2025-10-05 10:48:33 -07:00
sound ALSA: hda/realtek: Fix mute led for HP Omen 17-cb0xxx 2025-10-17 16:37:21 +02:00
tools hid-for-linus-2025101701 2025-10-18 08:18:18 -10:00
usr gen_init_cpio: Ignore fsync() returning EINVAL on pipes 2025-10-07 09:53:05 -07:00
virt KVM x86 fixes for 6.18: 2025-10-18 10:25:43 +02:00
.clang-format Merge tag 'drm-misc-next-2025-10-02' of https://gitlab.freedesktop.org/drm/misc/kernel into drm-next 2025-10-21 10:16:34 +02:00
.clippy.toml rust: clean Rust 1.88.0's warning about clippy::disallowed_macros configuration 2025-05-07 00:11:47 +02:00
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.get_maintainer.ignore MAINTAINERS: remove Alyssa Rosenzweig 2025-09-18 21:17:31 +02:00
.gitattributes .gitattributes: set diff driver for Rust source code files 2023-05-31 17:48:25 +02:00
.gitignore .gitignore: ignore compile_commands.json globally 2025-08-12 15:53:55 -07:00
.mailmap Merge drm/drm-next into drm-misc-next 2025-10-24 14:45:08 +02:00
.pylintrc tools: docs: parse-headers.py: move it from sphinx dir 2025-08-29 15:54:42 -06:00
.rustfmt.toml rust: add .rustfmt.toml 2022-09-28 09:02:20 +02:00
COPYING COPYING: state that all contributions really are covered by this file 2020-02-10 13:32:20 -08:00
CREDITS USB/Thunderbolt changes for 6.18-rc1 2025-10-04 16:07:08 -07:00
Kbuild sched: Make migrate_{en,dis}able() inline 2025-09-25 09:57:16 +02:00
Kconfig io_uring: Rename KConfig to Kconfig 2025-02-19 14:53:27 -07:00
MAINTAINERS accel: Add Arm Ethos-U NPU driver 2025-10-24 15:07:39 -05:00
Makefile Linux 6.18-rc2 2025-10-19 15:19:16 -10:00
README README: Fix spelling 2024-03-18 03:36:32 -06:00

Linux kernel
============

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Documentation/admin-guide/README.rst first.

In order to build the documentation, use ``make htmldocs`` or
``make pdfdocs``.  The formatted documentation can also be read online at:

    https://www.kernel.org/doc/html/latest/

There are various text files in the Documentation/ subdirectory,
several of them using the reStructuredText markup notation.

Please read the Documentation/process/changes.rst file, as it contains the
requirements for building and running the kernel, and information about
the problems which may result by upgrading your kernel.