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| author | Scott Branden <scott.branden@broadcom.com> | 2021-01-20 20:58:16 +0300 |
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| committer | Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org> | 2021-01-25 20:44:44 +0300 |
| commit | 522f692686a73e51300073c08e4107a8cd0b9854 (patch) | |
| tree | 6a162dceed2000a947a6ad340977d35246a17a4d /drivers/misc/bcm-vk/Kconfig | |
| parent | 882227626459ce7a24191f13c6d9749a00992059 (diff) | |
| download | linux-522f692686a73e51300073c08e4107a8cd0b9854.tar.xz | |
misc: bcm-vk: add Broadcom VK driver
Add initial version of Broadcom VK driver to enumerate PCI device IDs
of Valkyrie and Viper device IDs.
VK based cards provide real-time high performance, high throughput,
low latency offload compute engine operations.
They are used for multiple parallel offload tasks as:
audio, video and image processing and crypto operations.
Further commits add additional features to driver beyond probe/remove.
Acked-by: Olof Johansson <olof@lixom.net>
Signed-off-by: Scott Branden <scott.branden@broadcom.com>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20210120175827.14820-3-scott.branden@broadcom.com
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
Diffstat (limited to 'drivers/misc/bcm-vk/Kconfig')
| -rw-r--r-- | drivers/misc/bcm-vk/Kconfig | 17 |
1 files changed, 17 insertions, 0 deletions
diff --git a/drivers/misc/bcm-vk/Kconfig b/drivers/misc/bcm-vk/Kconfig new file mode 100644 index 000000000000..052f6f28b540 --- /dev/null +++ b/drivers/misc/bcm-vk/Kconfig @@ -0,0 +1,17 @@ +# SPDX-License-Identifier: GPL-2.0-only +# +# Broadcom VK device +# +config BCM_VK + tristate "Support for Broadcom VK Accelerators" + depends on PCI_MSI + help + Select this option to enable support for Broadcom + VK Accelerators. VK is used for performing + multiple specific offload processing tasks in parallel. + Such offload tasks assist in such operations as video + transcoding, compression, and crypto tasks. + This driver enables userspace programs to access these + accelerators via /dev/bcm-vk.N devices. + + If unsure, say N. |