nvidia/GPU support?

[mwilliammyers]

What do you think about adding GPU support via one of these crates?

Have you looked into it?

I would be happy to open a PR if it is something we would like to add...

[cjbassi]

Yah that sounds good.

[mwilliammyers]

I think I should probably add GPU support to psutil?

[cjbassi]

That's a good question, maybe we could start by just implementing things in ytop and then see about upstreaming it if it makes sense since I'm not totally sure what exactly were implementing yet. Also, maybe check to see if theres a GPU rust crate already.

[mwilliammyers]

Cool.

As far as I can tell there are only bindings to the Nvidia Management Library via one of these crates. I was thinking nvml-wrapper looked like the best option.

That being said, I would love to have cross platform & cross GPU manufacturer support if possible, so maybe I will keep looking...?

[cjbassi]

Yeah cross platform GPU support would be nice. maybe we could start with Nvidia and add that to ytop if you want.

[mwilliammyers]

Cool, I will try to open a PR ASAP.

[cjbassi]

Looks like i3status-rust does some Nvidia stuff: https://github.com/greshake/i3status-rust/blob/master/src/blocks/nvidia_gpu.rs

They could probably benefit from an Nvidia library too so that they could clean up their code a bit

[Seirdy]

Radeontop (written in C) might also be a good point of reference for AMD cards.