Habana Labs Goya HL-1000 AI inference accelerators
Habana Labs' first-generation Goya (HL-1000) PCIe AI inference cards, launched in 2018 and aimed at datacenter deep-learning inference workloads. Habana was acquired by Intel in 2019, and Goya predates the better-known Gaudi training accelerators that followed.
recommendation
Worth keeping but flagging as legacy because Intel publicly confirmed in September 2025 that the Goya platform is end-of-life and its current Gaudi support matrix lists only Gaudi 2 and Gaudi 3, with no Goya entry. Even so, Habana engineers were still landing real fixes and cleanups against this code through 2024, and no removal discussion has surfaced, so the right move today is to annotate it as legacy rather than schedule it for deletion.
repository signals
sources
- git.kernel.org
The goya directory was still receiving substantive upstream fixes in 2024-06, indicating maintenance rather than abandonment.
- git.kernel.org
A Goya-specific cleanup landed in 2024-02, showing direct file-level attention in the recent window.
- community.intel.com
An Intel employee stated in September 2025 that the Goya platform is EOL.
- docs.habana.ai
Current official Gaudi documentation support matrix lists only Gaudi 2 and Gaudi 3 supported configurations, with no Goya/HL-1000 entry.
- en.wikichip.org
Goya maps to the first-generation HL-1000 inference PCIe card family, an older 2018-era product line.
codex reasoning notes (technical)
Not a phase-1 false positive: this is ASIC-specific driver code included by drivers/accel/habanalabs/Makefile (checked via exec_command/rg). Lore tooling was unavailable here, so upstream activity was approximated from local git history via exec_command; the two kernel.org commit URLs use the canonical git.kernel.org commit URL pattern derived from those hashes. Intel Community and docs.habana.ai URLs were obtained via web search/open. Evidence points to EOL hardware with likely only legacy deployments, but there was real upstream maintenance through 2024 and no removal discussion was found, so keep the driver but annotate it as legacy/EOL rather than deprecating for removal now.