On Wed, Oct 6, 2021 at 1:50 PM Josh Stone <jistone(a)redhat.com> wrote:
On 10/4/21 12:12 PM, Neal Gompa wrote:
> On Mon, Oct 4, 2021 at 3:07 PM Kevin Fenzi <kevin(a)scrye.com> wrote:
>> * How good is emulation support
>
> The lack of real hardware for RISC-V has made it so almost everyone is
> working with emulation. It's not realistic right now to work with real
> hardware.
>
>> * What would it take to keep up with the other arches? Is that possible?
>
> The real hardware options do not have the performance to keep up with
> the other architectures.
Is it really so slow that emulation is preferable?
In my opinion, yes. There's a dearth of so-called "server-class"
hardware, which have such useful characteristics like "large amounts
of RAM", "decent memory cache", "fast I/O", "PCIe
lanes", and so on.
The development boards typically are very I/O constrained and have
limited amounts of RAM, making them less useful than emulation for
doing builds.
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