RE: [EXT] Re: [PATCH 0/8] ethosu: Add Arm Ethos-U driver

[Alison Wang]

On Fri, Jun 16, 2023 at 01:59:05PM +0800, Alison Wang wrote:
> This series contains Arm's NPU Ethos-U driver for NXP i.MX93 platform.
>
> Ethos-U Linux driver is to provide an example of how a rich operating 
> system like Linux can dispatch inferences to an Arm Cortex-M 
> subsystem, consisting of an Arm Cortex-M and an Arm Ethos-U NPU.

What is an "inference"?
[Alison Wang] The inference here means machine learning inference. It is the process of
running data points into a machine learning model to calculate an output such as a single 
numerical score. For example, we use this driver, user space application and Cortex-M firmware
to complete an inference about image classification.

Where are the userspace tools (if any) that are needed for this driver to work properly?
[Alison Wang] You could refer to https://github.com/nxp-imx/ethos-u-driver-stack-imx.git .


thanks,

greg k-h