Re: Test hardware for ROCm on arm64 and ppc64el
On 2025-05-28 09:47, Cordell Bloor wrote:
> Alex Voicu acquired one of those Radxa Orion O6boards [2] and tested
> Debian's ROCm packages on it. He reports that the tests nearly all pass,
> although there may be some limitations (e.g., there were some
> difficulties with Large BAR for GPUs with >8GB of VRAM). If I can get my
> hands on a 64GB Radxa Orion O6 board, I'd like to watch out for any
> regressions in ROCm on ARM by adding it it to ci-test.rocm.debian.net.
Incidentally, just last week I reached out to debian-arm [3] to inquire
about ARMv9 hardware, and the Orion O6 was again a topic of discussion.
There was a link to a follow-up review Jeff Geerling did of the O6 in
May, which noted some improvements over the first review.
I reached out to Radxa last Sunday to see if they have any samples to
spare but I have not heard back yet. I'll ping if they do.
In any case, I may have another accessible solution with Graviton4,
which given its maturity might support my needs for an ARMv9 platform
better for now. I'd be very happy to hear from you if Debian works well
on the O6 though, it certainly looks like a very promising board. And
EFI support is such a useful feature.
Best,
Christian
>> [1]: https://www.tomshardware.com/pc-components/motherboards/worlds-first-open-source-armv9-motherboard-surfaces-radxa-orion-o6s-pricing-starts-at-usd200-for-the-8gb-ram-model
> [2]: https://radxa.com/products/orion/o6/
[3] https://lists.debian.org/debian-arm/2025/05/msg00012.html
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