Linux amdgpu Driver Successfully Integrated with iPad for Local LLM Inference

LemonSeed Studio

An editor and IDE for iPad with on-device LLM inference on an AMD GPU.

LemonSeed Studio is a single iPad app. It bundles:

• mac_linuxgpu: the unmodified upstream Linux amdgpu + amdkfd driver, embedded in the app as a PCIDriverKit extension. It drives an AMD GPU in a Thunderbolt enclosure.
• LemonSeed Engine: the inference engine, running on that GPU through its HSA runtime and HRX/Loom.
• amdgpu_mtopg: live GPU telemetry.

Layout

third_party/mac_linuxgpu GPU driver (submodule)
third_party/LSE inference engine (submodule)
third_party/amdgpu_mtopg GPU monitor (submodule)

Getting the source

git clone --recurse-submodules 

Or, in an existing clone:

git submodule update --init

mac_linuxgpu fetches its own pinned Linux sources sparsely on first build, so its nested kernel submodule does not need to be cloned recursively.

License

The original code is available under MIT or GPL-2.0-only, at your option. See LICENSE. Bundled and submodule components keep their own licenses; see THIRD_PARTY.md.

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An iPad IDE with local LLM inference on an AMD GPU over Thunderbolt: the upstream Linux amdgpu driver embedded as DriverKit, LemonSeed Engine, and live GPU telemetry.

Topics

amdgpu code-editor driverkit egpu ide ipad ipados llm local-llm swiftui