On Wed, Jul 18, 2018 at 4:26 PM, Ben Cotton <bcot...@redhat.com> wrote:
> == Summary == > A number of devices like Xilinx ZYNQ based devices such as the > 96boards Ultra96 and the Intel based UP² have onboard FPGAs. FPGA > manager is a vendor-neutral framework that has been upstream in the > kernel since 4.4. This is the initial support for FPGAs in Fedora > using open source vendor agnostic tools. > > == Owner == > * Name: Peter Robinson > * Email: pbrobinson at fedora project dot org > > == Detailed Description == > > The use of Artificial Intelligence and Machine Learning is growing. > There's a number types of compute power used to drive this, the > standard system CPU can handle basic work, but for more powerful needs > this workload gets moved to auxiliary processors such as GPGPU, FPGAs > or Neural Network processors. This will add initial support for FPGAs > in Fedora using the Linux Kernel support which currently supports > Altera, Zynq, Lattice and other FPGAs. The use of FPGAs with Open > Source software is improving and this is the beginning of ensuring > that can be consumed in Fedora as easily as possible. > > == Benefit to Fedora == > > The general purpose use of FPGAs is growing in the tech industry, > especially in AI and Machine Learning usecases for IoT and numerous > other places where special purpose workload acceleration is needed. > This will help developing these workloads on top of Fedora for use > across the distribution. > > == Scope == > * Proposal owners: Kernel and userspace changes > Is there a list of the proposed kernel changes anywhere? > > * Other developers: N/A (not a System Wide Change) > > == Upgrade/compatibility impact == > There is no impact to upgrades or platforms that don't contain FPGAs. > > == How To Test == > Testing will require hardware with a supported FPGA. The initial > devices for this will be a 96boards Ultra96 or a UP² with a Altera > FPGA. Other devices will be supported and testing will be welcome. > > The process for testing will be linked to here. > > == User Experience == > Currently the Fedora support for FPGAs is basically non existent. > There's currently a few open tools for specific FPGAs. This is the > beginning of improving this with the intention of having a uniform as > possible user experience across FPGAs as is currently possible. > > > -- > Ben Cotton > Fedora Program Manager > TZ=America/Indiana/Indianapolis > _______________________________________________ > devel mailing list -- devel@lists.fedoraproject.org > To unsubscribe send an email to devel-le...@lists.fedoraproject.org > Fedora Code of Conduct: https://getfedora.org/code-of-conduct.html > List Guidelines: https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Mailing_list_guidelines > List Archives: https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/devel@lists. > fedoraproject.org/message/PNQJ3E4GC4AITL3VMJ5OVZK2MGW2TTLL/ >
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