Re: F29 Self-Contained Change: Basic FPGA Support
On Thu, Jul 19, 2018 at 6:40 PM, Justin Forbes <jmforbes(a)linuxtx.org> wrote:
On Wed, Jul 18, 2018 at 4:26 PM, Ben Cotton <bcotton(a)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?
Not yet, working on it, basically it will be enabling FPGA and the
associated options there.
>>
>>
>> * 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
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