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Tomeu Vizoso
Personal blog · blog.tomeuvizoso.netsystemshardwareprogramming
Tomeu Vizoso's personal blog at blog.tomeuvizoso.net covers systems, hardware and programming. Since 2015, 7 different Hacker News readers have linked it 7 times. It is still writing: the last post was on 2026-10-01, and you can follow it by feed.
Too few sampled comments (3) to say how often HN recommends it.?
Why HN links it
HN readers link Tomeu Vizoso's blog as a record of his work on Rockchip NPU support, including driver progress in the mainline Linux kernel and the state of NPU software stacks.
Summarised by Claude from a sample of 3 HN comments that link here. Each comment is marked recommending, critical or neutral (citing without judging); how this works.
What Hacker News says?
And the NPU part is also in the mainline kernel https://blog.tomeuvizoso.net/2025/07/rockchip-npu-update-6-w...
Comment linking /2025/07/rockchip-npu-update-6-we-are-in-mainline.html
on “State of Embedded: Q4 2025 Overview”Submitted Etnaviv NPU: Support for the NPU in the NXP I.mx 8M Plus SoC Is Upstream as a story · 2 points
HN discussionI believe it's the latter, each NPU vendor has their own software stack. Take a look at Tomeu Vizoso's work: https://blog.tomeuvizoso.net/search/label/npu
Comment linking /search/label/npu
on “Demystifying NPUs: Questions and Answers”Submitted Working on lucid sleep in the free desktop as a story · 2 points
HN discussionAn NPU with no driver support in the main Linux kernel, only in a vendor-provided fork containing dubious-quality drivers: https://forum.radxa.com/t/lack-of-concern-for-security-in-bs... https://blog.tomeuvizoso.net/2024/03/rockchip-npu-update-1-w...
Comment linking /2024/03/rockchip-npu-update-1-walk-in-park.html
on “Setting Up an RK3588 SBC QEMU Hypervisor with ZFS on Debian”Submitted Rockchip NPU update 2: MobileNetV1 is done as a story · 1 points
HN discussionSubmitted How continuous integration can help you keep pace with the Linux kernel as a story · 1 points
HN discussion