AMD Kria Development Boards To Enjoy Wayland Support With Ubuntu 24.04 LTS

[phoronix]

Phoronix: AMD Kria Development Boards To Enjoy Wayland Support With Ubuntu 24.04 LTS

Ubuntu maker Canonical partnered with AMD for supporting Ubuntu Linux on the AMD-Xilinx Kria development boards for their UltraScale+ / Versal Adaptive SoC evaluation kit. Currently the official builds are based on Ubuntu 22.04 LTS but it appears an Ubuntu 24.04 LTS build is being worked on and will come complete with Wayland support...

https://www.phoronix.com/news/AMD-Kria-Wayland-Ubuntu-24.04

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What would one do with it? And Ubuntu on it?

[Topolino]

Not disclosed in the weekly update: Dynamic triple buffering is now scheduled for 48.

Despite a lot of review work from other mutter developers there's been very little progress from Daniel. He is probably too busy on the bug backlog.

[pong]

What would one do with it? And Ubuntu on it?

They're mostly used for prototyping "edge" AIML accelerated embedded linux based systems that have customizable NPUs and/or other
configurable hardware accelerated DSP / logic / computational or advanced I/O flow related functionality.
real time robotics controls, real time machine / computer vision algorithms, that sort of thing.

Basically think about nvidia's jetson etc. line of embedded edge GPU accelerated SBCs and devkits, this is competitive with those
but based on SOC FPGAs and not GPUs for the acceleration / NPU etc. engines.

Ubuntu is just a "whatever works" OS that deals with IoT, edge / cloud interface, running stuff like opencv, whatever.

[bloominstrong]

What would one do with it? And Ubuntu on it?

Emerson have an industrial PC based on these boards, they ship it with a slightly customised Ubuntu install with a bunch docker containers. Industrial use cases are mostly capturing data and sending it to the cloud and some light processing of the data on the "edge" before it goes to the cloud.