Xilinx Looking To Contribute Alveo FPGA Accelerator Drivers To The Linux Kernel

[phoronix]

Phoronix: Xilinx Looking To Contribute Alveo FPGA Accelerator Drivers To The Linux Kernel

The upcoming Linux hardware accelerator subsystem could get even bigger with Xilinx now wanting to mainline their FPGA accelerator drivers...

http://www.phoronix.com/scan.php?page=news_item&px=Xilinx-FPGA-RFC-Kernel-Driver

[microcode]

What is the open source userspace program that uses these?

[starshipeleven]

What is the open source userspace program that uses these?

From the RFC mail, "
More details of our architecture, software APIs, ioctl definitions, execution model, etc. is available as Sphinx documentation--

https://xilinx.github.io/XRT/2018.3/html/index.html

The complete runtime software stack (XRT) which includes out of tree kernel drivers, user space libraries, board utilities and firmware for the hardware scheduler is open source and available at https://github.com/Xilinx/XRT. Both PCIe based Alveo boards and Zynq Ultrascale+ MPSoC based embedded platforms are supported by XRT. We will work on upstreaming the driver for embedded platforms after PCIe drivers have been merged upstream. "

It's a framework to let payload applications be accelerated by the FPGA.

It appears to be the opensource alter-ego of this closed-source runtime https://github.com/Xilinx/ml-suite