On Wed, 20 May 2026 at 17:19, Przemek Klosowski via devel
<[email protected]> 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.

No, that's only for copr, the main official Fedora builds are proper
Z-series HW.

> > 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.

They are quite performant in a single user environment with a single
user, put them in a build farm and thrash them for days and it's not
the case.
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