hey there, debian ai team! it was good to see lumin@ ITP openvino today; i've been using that with Audacity for music separation[2] the past few weeks. anyway, i saw the message to -devel about NPUs[0]. i'm quite interested in them, and did some compiler work with them at google. in general, you're going to find a minimum of firmware blobs, DFSG-incompatibility-wise, and sometimes closed drivers entirely. you'll also find that almost everyone has *some* degree of openness, and the closure is generally due to political/legal rather than technical reasons. you can assume a level of annoyance roughly equivalent to working with FPGAs, though there's work being done kernelside to improve things (kernel never seemed to care much about FPGAs). modern ones will be driven through the accel subsystem. older ones are all over the map. i don't have any hardware at the moment, but am happy to give any advice i can. --nick [0] https://lists.debian.org/debian-devel/2025/01/msg00275.html [1] https://lists.debian.org/debian-devel/2025/01/msg00273.html [2] https://github.com/intel/openvino-plugins-ai-audacity/blob/main/doc/feature_doc/music_separation/README.md -- nick black -=- https://nick-black.com to make an apple pie from scratch, you need first invent a universe.
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