On Mon, Aug 24, 2026 at 11:09:28AM +0300, Konstantin Sinyuk wrote: > Modern GPUs and AI accelerators are increasingly connected through scale-up > fabrics such as AMD xGMI today and emerging UALink systems [4]. Linux lacks > common, vendor-neutral infrastructure for reporting which accelerators are > directly connected, through which ports, and in what state.
<...> > No production provider is included. Shipping only the synthetic provider is > deliberate, allowing the object model and uAPI to be reviewed before being > tied to hardware. Tell your AI that this is not how things work in the real world. The chances of multiple hardware implementations fitting a software model designed without considering the actual hardware are effectively zero. This is why successful subsystems have emerged from consolidating support for multiple existing hardware implementations. Thanks
