[cfarm-announces] cfarm95: RISC-V host with RVV 1.0 vector extension

[CFarm Annoucements]

We are happy to announce the addition of cfarm95, a BPI-F3 machine from
BananaPi. This RISC-V machine is based on a SpacemiT K1 SoC with 8
SpacemiT X60 cores. The most interesting feature of this hardware is its
implementation of the RVV 1.0 vector extension; it also conforms to the
RVA22 standard. More hardware information here:

  https://blog.bitsofnetworks.org/riscv-upstream-bpi-f3-part1-hardware/

The machine runs a standard Debian userspace; however, the kernel is a
vendor kernel derived from Linux 6.6. Once upstream kernel support for
this board becomes available, we hope to switch to the upstream kernel to
improve stability. In the meantime, we have documented how to run upstream
Debian on this hardware:

  https://blog.bitsofnetworks.org/riscv-upstream-bpi-f3-part2-debian/

This machine should help free software developers add support for RISC-V
vector extensions in their projects. This is especially interesting for
toolchains and performance-sensitive code such as cryptographic libraries.

Thanks to RISC-V International for providing the hardware, and to
tetaneutral.net for hosting it!