On Wed, Jul 18, 2018 at 05:26:08PM -0400, Ben Cotton 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 Hm, what is the actual scope of this change? Summary, Detailed Desc., and Benefit to Fedora all talk about FPGA in general, but not about what will change in Fedora. Zbyszek _______________________________________________ devel mailing list -- devel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx To unsubscribe send an email to devel-leave@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx Fedora Code of Conduct: https://getfedora.org/code-of-conduct.html List Guidelines: https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Mailing_list_guidelines List Archives: https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/devel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx/message/BH5OUFUMXDVYRI7SDWEBXYMZ2AYR7GZV/
