On Wed, May 29, 2024 at 12:23 PM Baptiste Jonglez via cfarm-users <cfarm-users@lists.tetaneutral.net> wrote: > > We may have an opportunity to add the following RISC-V board to the farm: > > https://docs.banana-pi.org/en/BPI-F3/BananaPi_BPI-F3 > https://docs.banana-pi.org/en/BPI-F3/SpacemiT_K1 > > The CPU core is advertised as having "RVA22 Profile and 256-bit RVV 1.0", > that is, support for the Vector extension. > > To gauge interest for this board and be able to apply for a hardware > donation, we need some feedback: > > 1) do you have an interest for the RISC-V Vector extension in general?
Yes. > 2) do you have an interest for this specific CPU core? Yes. > 3) what can of work would you be able to do with this board, assuming it > becomes available in the farm? SIMD on RISC-V to speed up algorithms. > 4) do you care about running an upstream Linux kernel on this board, or is > a vendor kernel sufficient for your work? No. I don't have a dog in this fight. > We don't have any estimate about how long it would take to integrate such > a board, but it could easily take 6 months to 1 year (possibly much more if > we need to run an upstream kernel). To add to (1), it would be nice to get my hands on a RISC-V machine with security extensions too, like AES or SHA. Jeff _______________________________________________ cfarm-users mailing list cfarm-users@lists.tetaneutral.net https://lists.tetaneutral.net/listinfo/cfarm-users
