Bug#1070788: mesa: Package teflon - TensorFlow Lite delegate library

[Christopher Obbard]

Hi,

[+Timo and X team]

On Thu, 09 May 2024 08:42:54 +0100 Christopher Obbard
 wrote:
> Source: mesa
> Version: 24.1.0~rc2-1
> Severity: wishlist
> X-Debbugs-Cc: obba...@debian.org, to...@tomeuvizoso.net
> 
> Dear Maintainer,
> 
> Mesa 24.1 contains a TensorFlow Lite delegate that can make use of NPUs
> to accelerate ML inference. It is implemented in the form of a external
> delegate, a shared library that the TensorFlow Lite runtime can load at
> startup[0].
> 
> We should consider packaging this for users.
> 
> It should be a matter of just passing -Dteflon=true to the build config
> 
> Since it builds a shared library, libteflon.so, we should package this
> as a separate library. How does libteflon0 sound?
> 
> We can use a description similar to the first paragraph, which has been
> taken from [1].
> 
> I will prepare a merge request on Salsa for this over the coming weeks.


I've made an initial implementation for the packaging for the Teflon library
at https://salsa.debian.org/xorg-team/lib/mesa/-/merge_requests/39


Reviews welcome!


Thanks,

Chris

Bug#1070788: mesa: Package teflon - TensorFlow Lite delegate library

[Christopher Obbard]

Source: mesa
Version: 24.1.0~rc2-1
Severity: wishlist
X-Debbugs-Cc: obba...@debian.org, to...@tomeuvizoso.net

Dear Maintainer,

Mesa 24.1 contains a TensorFlow Lite delegate that can make use of NPUs
to accelerate ML inference. It is implemented in the form of a external
delegate, a shared library that the TensorFlow Lite runtime can load at
startup[0].

We should consider packaging this for users.

It should be a matter of just passing -Dteflon=true to the build config

Since it builds a shared library, libteflon.so, we should package this
as a separate library. How does libteflon0 sound?

We can use a description similar to the first paragraph, which has been
taken from [1].

I will prepare a merge request on Salsa for this over the coming weeks.

[0]: 
https://www.tensorflow.org/api_docs/python/tf/lite/experimental/load_delegate.
[1]: https://docs.mesa3d.org/teflon.html


Thanks!

Chris

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