> The sad part is that, by all appearances, the goal of this work was not to add functionality for NVIDIA GPUs in particular. Lemon does not seem to be an NVIDIA employee; the patches included a Facebook email address.
Its interesting the person posting the objection uses an @nvidia.com address.
With the history between nvidia and Linux, it wouldn’t surprise me if they had people employed to keep nvidia from treading on kernel dev’s toes.
Which person?
Jason Gunthorpe
That's a really weird conclusion given that it specifically targets nVidia GPUs, it's for machine learning, and everybody uses nVidia GPUs for machine learning.
I don't see what working for nVidia has to do with it. He works for a company that uses mountains of nVidia cards for ML.