On Wed, Oct 6, 2021 at 1:50 PM Josh Stone jistone@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@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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