Upgrading NPU firmware

[sradhakrishna]

I have TrueNAS Scale running on a Minisforum N5 Pro AI NAS. This system is a AMD Strix Point platform. I am looking to run lemonade-server leveraging the NPU for local AI.

This requires linux-firmware to be upgraded to version 20260110, so FastFlowLM can be made to work with lemonade.

Any suggestions on how to upgrade the firmware on a TrueNAS Scale system?

[Goldtrom]

There is already a request for it to be included in 26 . Please vote up the request

Support amd APU NPU's

Problem/Justification Basic AMD NPU is already in but needs updates to firmware and driver to latest to support using the NPU in things like Fastflow LLM. Latest firmware and drivers are available but need to be incldued in the kernel before they can be used. Current drivers are outdated. Impact This will enable NPU use for local LLM and other AI workloads User Story Users can offload AI tasks and enable LLM Processing for very low energy use to the NPU in APU based systems.

Only other reasonable option would be to set up a VM with GPU pass through.

[sradhakrishna]

Thank you for pointing this! Have voted it up.

Wish there was an easier way to get the firmware updated!