Coral TPU probably abandoned

[tlemarchand]

For almost one year now, the Gasket driver (needed for Coral TPU) has not been buildable on new Linux kernels.
The issue has been raised multiple times on the official Google GitHub repository, and PRs have been proposed: google/gasket-driver#35
No project owner has shown interest in the fact that their driver no longer works.

The last news on the official website (https://coral.ai/news/) was posted on May 5, 2022.
My guess is that Coral is Google's new abandonware.

From now on, what would be the recommendation? GPU? Hailo?
It may be useful to remove recommendations for Coral TPU from the official Frigate website and documentation.

[NickM-27]

It is buildable using https://github.com/jnicolson/gasket-builder, which is in the documentation https://docs.frigate.video/troubleshooting/edgetpu#pcie-coral-not-detected

The docs have already been updated for the next release to explain the recommendations more broadly

[tlemarchand]

I'll read the docs of next release also :)

[hawkeye217]

Here are the object detector docs for Frigate 0.16, currently in beta: https://deploy-preview-16390--frigate-docs.netlify.app/configuration/object_detectors

There are a large number of options besides a Coral.

[NickM-27]

Google fully open sourced the drivers, firmware, etc. for the coral, so there is no reason that the open source community can't keep it supported. There is already support for the foreseeable future in terms of what Frigate needs to support it.

[tlemarchand]

If anyone is interested, I've setup an automated package build with all necessary fixes to run it on modern RH based distributions (Fedora 41 and 42, RHEL ..) :
https://copr.fedorainfracloud.org/coprs/tlemarchand/google-coral-dkms/
https://github.com/tlemarchand/gasket-dkms

Nothing too complicated, I picked up fixes developed by other people and merged them.

[mr8791]

Hailo 8L vs Rockchip offerings?

[TheQue42]

I folks,

I've running the Coral TPU m.2 version in my NUC (on opensuse) for years, but I am getting interested in the hailo8, which also seems to use m.2

But almost all purchase links says "for the rasberry pi"....does this mean that its somehow custom-configured for the Pi5, and I cant just replace my coral with a hailo8 in my NUC?

[blakeblackshear]

https://hailo.ai/products/ai-accelerators/hailo-8r-mpcie-ai-acceleration-module/

[xconverge]

super sorry, top result if you google "hailo 8r" I couldn't find this thread to edit my post and un-ask in time 😆

[TheQue42]

I am assuming everone is using ubuntu? I just did a brief search in some of the repos and say "linux support", but it seems I have hell of a problem building the kernel module for opensuse :'(

[xconverge]

or at least debian based distros, probably a good guess. I am on debian

[TheQue42]

Thank god for https://github.com/HolgerHees/hailort-drivers :-) #FinallyBuiltTheLKM

[luciandf]

has there been any change on the status of coral tpu support? is it safe to update the kernel on my server or will i be unable to use the tpu

[hawkeye217]

There has been no change, what we said last year is still true:

Google fully open sourced the drivers, firmware, etc. for the coral, so there is no reason that the open source community can't keep it supported. There is already support for the foreseeable future in terms of what Frigate needs to support it.

Frigate will continue to support the Coral as long as possible.