Free and open source NPU Drivers
Libre drivers for Neural Processing Units
As of today, companies that sell components that include accelerators for machine learning workloads (NPU, TPU, DLA, etc) are generally engaged in vendor lock-in practices that interfere with the ability of their customers to freely choose their partners and adapt their software components to their own needs.
This project aims to incentivize providers of accelerating hardware to move to more fair practices by reverse engineering their hardware and writing open source implementations of the corresponding software stack, for interoperability purposes. These drivers become part of projects such as the Linux kernel and the Mesa project, and will become available to users via existing distributions such as Debian, Fedora and NixOS.
- The project's own website: https://docs.mesa3d.org/teflon.html
Run by Independent contractor
This project was funded through the NGI0 Core Fund, a fund established by NLnet with financial support from the European Commission's Next Generation Internet programme, under the aegis of DG Communications Networks, Content and Technology under grant agreement No 101092990.
