On Sun, Jan 8, 2023 at 2:42 AM David Abdurachmanov <david.abdurachma...@gmail.com> wrote: > > On Sun, Jan 8, 2023 at 2:28 AM Jeff Law <j...@ventanamicro.com> wrote: > > > > > > > > On 1/6/23 23:41, David Abdurachmanov wrote: > > > > > > Summary from multi-year discussions/feedback on this: > > > - We don't have proper hardware to put into the data center that holds > > > servers used by Fedora infrastructure. > > Right. dev boards are not the solution here. It's got to be something > > that can be racked and with enough performance to matter. > > > > > - Not enough single and multi thread performance to avoid large impact > > > to Fedora development. > > Agreed. Returning to a situation like we had with armv7 isn't > > acceptable IMHO. > > > > > > > > Other than that Fedora/RISCV 37 is the first Fedora version to be > > > built fully natively using 20+ SiFive HiFive Unmatched boards. On a > > > good day we can keep up (if the builds aren't too large, e.g. GCC). We > > > don't really run Bodhi thus once package is built it's immediately > > > available. We run a very minimal setup right now (ideas to expand > > > that). > > It's fantastic we've got that far. But clearly it's not viable long term. > > Agreed. We have been cooking Fedora/RISCV since 2016, but we really > cannot move forward until the proper hardware (and things around it) > becomes available. > > > > > > > > Another news is that Fedora/RISCV Koji server ( > > > http://fedora.riscv.rocks/koji/ ) just moved into Fedora infra owned > > > server. We are about to start work on Fedora 38/Rawhide. > > Excellent. I'll have to update my chroots and containers as the F38 > > bits start appearing. > > I am still tweaking the server configuration, but I should be ready > for mass building soonish. > I might want to wait for GCC 13 to land in Rawhide, which should > happen soon (I think). > > > > > > > > > 2023 is potentially a transition year. Ventana Veyron V1 Development > > > Platform looks good (I assume it has BMC). SOPHGO SG2042 should also > > > show up with 64-core @ 2.0GHz (T-HEAD C910) in early 2023 (?) I am not > > > yet convinced about their upstream support efforts (TBD). > > Yes Veyron-v1 will have a BMC and will be rackable. I have no > > significant insight into the T-HEAD efforts other than they do work a > > fair amount with VRULL on compiler and related technology. > > I noticed that VRULL has been involved with T-HEAD on GCC and > potentially kernel side for a few months now. This makes them much > more optimistic about their SoC/HW support in general. > > > > > > > > > > > If there is away to acquire Veyron V1 Development Platform I would be > > > interested to talk, and figure out what that would take. Such hardware > > > would be a game charger, and I do trust Ventana regarding upstream > > > support :) > > I'll be pushing to make systems available to Fedora and the GCC farm, > > but in general Ventana is more aligned towards Ubuntu. My goal is to > > have Fedora and Ubuntu on equal footing as quickly as possible. > > We have been trying to get stuff into GCC Compiler Farm for years now. > There are a couple of boards IIRC. There are additional requirements > on the software side (well, distributions) that we couldn't provide > for quite some time. > > > > > I do know rackable systems will be limited -- there's one particular > > component needed on the rackable systems that is in very short supply. > > We've got multiple orders in, but quantities are limited and lead times > > are absolutely insane. > > FYI, I think, the new aarch64 builders are 8 core, 35G RAM and 8G > swap. The older machines had 8G/core setup. There seems to be 8 (?) > servers with 80 cores, but so far only 40-50 builders are enabled (no > overcommitting on CPU as that's not a great idea [based on my own > experience]). > > I expect Veyron V1 to deliver a decent single and multi thread > performance, but we will need a lot of them. Probably 20-25 systems if > we assume a similar configuration as aarch64 builders (8-core, 32-64G > of RAM, 100-200G for storage). RAM and storage are cheap, but systems > will continue to be a problem. If we could somehow get to this level > we could stop investing into SBCs as they are stop-gap solutions for > builders. > > Based on some guesses there isn't a lot of time either. I would love > to bootstrap CentOS Stream 10. It would be nice to have Fedora + > riscv64 in a good shape before that happens, but probably unrealistic.
It is very unlikely that CentOS Stream 10 will include RISC-V as a fully included architecture. Perhaps via a CentOS Stream SIG. josh _______________________________________________ devel mailing list -- devel@lists.fedoraproject.org To unsubscribe send an email to devel-le...@lists.fedoraproject.org Fedora Code of Conduct: https://docs.fedoraproject.org/en-US/project/code-of-conduct/ List Guidelines: https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Mailing_list_guidelines List Archives: https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/devel@lists.fedoraproject.org Do not reply to spam, report it: https://pagure.io/fedora-infrastructure/new_issue
