Submitted today for upstreaming into the Linux 6.15 kernel is support for the Versal NET SoC, an addition to the AMD/Xilinx Versal family that doesn’t appear to have been talked about much publicly yet but should be an interesting addition to their product line-up.
Sent in today via the DeviceTree updates pull request for Linux 6.15 is enabling the AMD Versal NET SoC, which is simply described in the pull request as an FPGA with Arm Cortex-A78 CPU cores.
Besides references to the various Linux kernel patches having been posted for the AMD Versal NET, there hasn’t been much talk publicly by AMD about “Versal NET” yet compared to the other Versal 2 SoCs.
One of the Linux kernel patches goes on to further detail the AMD Versal NET SoC as:
“The Versal NET (Networked Adaptive Compute Acceleration Platform) from AMD/Xilinx is a next-generation adaptive platform designed for high performance computing, networking, and AI acceleration. It is part of the Versal ACAP (Adaptive Compute Acceleration Platform) family.”
As part of this Versal NET enablement is enabling the AMD VN-X board with the Versal NET SoC in a configuration of 16 x Arm Cortex-A78 cores and additional IP blocks like the AMD/Xilinx FPGA. When searching around for AMD VN-X for any additional insight, there does appear to be an AMD VN-X-B2197-01 board but again public details are light.
In any event the initial mainline kernel support for the AMD Versal NET SoC is set to be included in Linux 6.15 as part of the ARM/SoC updates.