vpu: remove deprecated plugin

The VPU plugin can only be used with devices that are
no longer supported by upper layers, such as OpenVINO.

The deprecation plan for the plugin was announced earlier
this year and post v0.28 marks the date when the plugin is removed
from the repo.

Releases before v0.29 have the plugin available should it
be needed.

Signed-off-by: Mikko Ylinen <mikko.ylinen@intel.com>

Author: mythi

.gitignore

@@ -19,7 +19,6 @@ cmd/qat_plugin/qat_plugin
 cmd/sgx_admissionwebhook/sgx_admissionwebhook
 cmd/sgx_plugin/sgx_plugin
 cmd/sgx_epchook/sgx_epchook
-cmd/vpu_plugin/vpu_plugin
 cmd/operator/operator
 
 deployments/fpga_admissionwebhook/base/intel-fpga-webhook-certs-secret

Makefile

@@ -31,8 +31,8 @@ TESTDATA_DIR = pkg/topology/testdata
 
 EXTRA_BUILD_ARGS += --build-arg GOLICENSES_VERSION=$(GOLICENSES_VERSION)
 
-pkgs  = $(shell $(GO) list ./... | grep -v vendor | grep -v e2e | grep -v envtest | grep -v vpu_plugin)
-cmds = $(shell ls --ignore=internal --ignore=vpu_plugin cmd)
+pkgs  = $(shell $(GO) list ./... | grep -v vendor | grep -v e2e | grep -v envtest)
+cmds = $(shell ls --ignore=internal cmd)
 
 all: build
 
@@ -233,12 +233,10 @@ null  :=
 space := $(null) #
 comma := ,
 images_json := $(subst $(space),$(comma),[$(addprefix ",$(addsuffix ",$(images) $(demos))]))
-skip_images_source := ubuntu-demo-openvino intel-vpu-plugin
-skip_images := $(subst $(space),$(comma),$(addprefix ",$(addsuffix ", $(skip_images_source))))
 
 check-github-actions:
 	@python3 -c 'import sys, yaml, json; json.dump(yaml.load(sys.stdin, Loader=yaml.SafeLoader), sys.stdout)' < .github/workflows/lib-build.yaml | \
-	jq -e '$(images_json) - [$(skip_images)] - .jobs.image.strategy.matrix.image == []' > /dev/null || \
+	jq -e '$(images_json) - .jobs.image.strategy.matrix.image == []' > /dev/null || \
 	(echo "Make sure all images are listed in .github/workflows/lib-build.yaml"; exit 1)
 
 .PHONY: all format test lint build images $(cmds) $(images) lock-images vendor pre-pull set-version check-github-actions envtest fixture update-fixture install-tools test-image-base-layer

README.md

@@ -17,7 +17,6 @@ Table of Contents
     * [GPU device plugin](#gpu-device-plugin)
     * [FPGA device plugin](#fpga-device-plugin)
     * [QAT device plugin](#qat-device-plugin)
-    * [VPU device plugin](#vpu-device-plugin)
     * [SGX device plugin](#sgx-device-plugin)
     * [DSA device plugin](#dsa-device-plugin)
     * [DLB device plugin](#dlb-device-plugin)
@@ -108,18 +107,6 @@ Details for integrating the QAT device plugin into [Kata Containers](https://kat
 can be found in the
 [Kata Containers documentation repository](https://github.com/kata-containers/kata-containers/blob/main/docs/use-cases/using-Intel-QAT-and-kata.md).
 
-### VPU Device Plugin
-
-The [VPU device plugin](cmd/vpu_plugin/README.md) supports Intel VCAC-A card
-(https://www.intel.com/content/dam/www/public/us/en/documents/datasheets/media-analytics-vcac-a-accelerator-card-by-celestica-datasheet.pdf)
-the card has:
-- 1 Intel Core i3-7100U processor
-- 12 MyriadX VPUs
-- 8GB DDR4 memory
-
-The demo subdirectory includes details of a OpenVINO deployment and use of the
-VPU plugin. Sources can be found in [openvino-demo](demo/ubuntu-demo-openvino).
-
 ### SGX Device Plugin
 
 The [SGX device plugin](cmd/sgx_plugin/README.md) allows workloads to use
@@ -249,8 +236,6 @@ The summary of resources available via plugins in this repository is given in th
    * [crypto-perf-dpdk-pod-requesting-qat.yaml](deployments/qat_dpdk_app/base/crypto-perf-dpdk-pod-requesting-qat.yaml)
  * `sgx.intel.com`  : `epc`
    * [intelsgx-job.yaml](deployments/sgx_enclave_apps/base/intelsgx-job.yaml)
- * `vpu.intel.com`  : `hddl`
-   * [intelvpu-job.yaml](demo/intelvpu-job.yaml)
 
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