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Google has abandoned the Coral TPU (lemmy.world)
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The Coral TPU driver has basically been abandoned by Google so if you are running a Linux kernel newer than 6.2 it will not function.

https://github.com/google/gasket-driver is the original driver which was archived on April 18, 2026

You can try the driver https://github.com/feranick/gasket-driver or https://github.com/dude84/gasket-driver-coral or search through the forks of the original gasket-dkms driver https://github.com/google/gasket-driver/forks

So in the future your options are to pin your kernel to 6.2, upgrade your hardware, hope that someone will keep a gasket-dkms fork updated for newer kernel versions, or make your own fork to do so yourself.

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[-] Davel23@fedia.io 101 points 2 months ago

https://killedbygoogle.com/

[-] panda_abyss@lemmy.ca 30 points 2 months ago

Man, why did they buy Tenor just to kill it?

What the fuck.

[-] egerlach@lemmy.ca 50 points 2 months ago

Common pattern - the acqui-hire.

"These people are working in a problem area that we want to do better in. We'll buy their company for their expertise."

Whether they keep existing products or not is not a major factor in the decision and gets evaluated later. Often, because they want the people working on something new the existing products are put into maintenance mode or shut down.

Source: Have been acquired for both talent and for product. Seen both.

[-] DataCrime@lemmy.dbzer0.com 6 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago)

So they could sell you something else, duh…

P.S. They probably wanted to add the IP to their portfolio.

[-] zingo@sh.itjust.works 14 points 2 months ago

Google is running out of naming schemes for their projects.

Not enough words in the dictionary.

[-] rapchee@lemmy.world 7 points 2 months ago

even though they have the full alphabet??

[-] irmadlad@lemmy.world 7 points 2 months ago

As much as you may dislike Google, I got to hand it to them, they have and always have a ton of skunk works projects.

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