[FFmpeg-devel] ARM Hardware Request

[J. Dekker]

On 8 Oct 2021, at 10:25, Thilo Borgmann wrote:
>> Hi,
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>> I'm writing ARM64 ASM and testing on Apple M1 and Graviton2 N1 devices. This, however, is not a good spread of micro-architectures among commonly used ARM64 devices. Additional micro-architectures which I would like to test are 'High Efficiency' A53 and A55; 'high performance' A72, A73, and A77, and 'Prime' X1.
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> I’m in favor of buying some ARM hardware for that as well as for FATE maybe.
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Could buy 2x of whatever we decide, alternatively I'd be able to run FATE on them as well.

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>> - OnePlus 9, Snapdragon 888 (A55/A77/X1) - 799 EUR
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> for this well it’s not cheap, maybe someone has an alternative idea or even some hardware to donate that covers some of the cores?

A official devkit is ~1600 EUR, obviously the phone form factor is not ideal for automated testing but it is significantly cheaper. But yes, if anyone can find a Snapdragon 888 in a devkit form (i.e. something I can plug into a network easily) then that would be preferred. Or if someone is able to find one or multiple devices which cover the A55/A77/X1 micro-architectures then that works as well.

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J. Dekker