Canonical has shared a brand new Ubuntu Thought symbol for the CIX P1, an Armv9 SoC powering single-board computer systems just like the Radxa Orion O6 and Orange Pi 6 Plus.
The picture is in line with Ubuntu 26.04 LTS and ships with a Linux 7.0 kernel from CIX’s open-source GitHub tree the use of handiest open-source drivers. A suite of patches sits on most sensible of the mainline kernel, however the objective is for them to be upstreamed too.
Canonical is the use of the similar way it took with its Snapdragon builds through letting the {hardware} describe itself to the OS at boot (ACPI) reasonably than per-device configuration (Software Tree). This nets one symbol that targets to paintings reliably on all supported CIX P1 units.
The CIX P1 incorporates of a 12-core Armv9 SoC constructed on TSMC’s 6nm procedure, combining Cortex-A720 and Cortex-A520 core with Arm Immortalis G720 10-core GPU (with {hardware} ray-tracing make stronger) and a 30 TOPS neural processing unit (45 TOPS overall with CPU + GPU).
What’s the CIX P1 Efficiency like in comparison to different SBCs?
I’ve no first-hand revel in to mention, however apparently to punch above its price-point in its elegance. It fits the Intel N100 in single-core efficiency and beats it in multi-core (because of having extra cores). It smokes the Raspberry Pi 5 as a result of… Maximum issues do.
However efficiency is comparative right here; this isn’t meant to be a full-time desktop PC for gaming and inventive workloads, so its energy is comparative to its use-cases1.
Ubuntu CIX P1 symbol is experimental (and now not an reliable LTS unlock) and is derived without a reliable make stronger or promises – which is the purpose: it’s equipped to get folks trying out on the edges of what’s new and offering comments and proposals.
Canonical’s Tobias Heider says the picture has been examined at the Radxa Orion O6, Radxa Orion O6N, Orange Pi 6 Plus, Minisform MS-R1 and the MetaComputing AI PC.
The ISO is to be had to obtain from the Ubuntu Thought symbol server (it’s close to the ground of the listing if taken care of alphabetically). The ISO is ~4GB.
Insects must be filed towards the Ubuntu Thought mission on Launchpad, with [CIX] written within the malicious program name and the {hardware}/machine/SBC the malicious program seemed on discussed (it is helping slim issues down).
