On Wed, May 20, 2026 at 12:18:54PM -0400, Przemek Klosowski via devel wrote:
> On 5/7/26 12:26 PM, Kevin Fenzi wrote:
> > Well, I can answer the second part: riscv hardware is still not fast
> > enough to be able to keep up with the flow of builds in fedora.
> > If we added it today with the best hardware we could get, it would be
> > slower than s390x by a good deal.
> 
> Sure, but as you know right now S390 is  apparently run in  QEMU emulation,
> so, today, a $100 8-core K1 would probably be competitive.

It is not. I can say for sure that fedora s390x builders are kvm vm's on
a real s390x lpar. 

I am not super sure about copr. I think they did use emulation for a
while, but I think they switched back to real hardware.

> > There's a number of people pressing vendors and watching new hardware
> > releases as they happen. Once sufficent hardware exists we will likely
> > add it.
> 
> This is great to hear. I understand that the new RVA23 boards (with K3 SoC,
> like MilkV Jupiter2, BPi-SM10; and Tenstorrent and SiFive) are quite
> performant. My own experience with K1 is 20% of a typical x86 desktop; and
> the buzz about those RVA23 SoCs is that they are several times faster, so
> about where a typical desktop might be.

It's definitely heading the right direction. ;)

kevin
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