Today's commit to the Linux 6.15 kernel code adds support for Versal NET SoC, a new member of the AMD/Xilinx Versal family that doesn't appear to have been publicly talked about yet, but should be an interesting addition to its product line.

What's being sent today via a DeviceTree update pull request for Linux 6.15 is the enablement of the AMD VersalNET SoC, which in the pull request is simply described as an FPGA with Arm Cortex-A78 CPU cores. Aside from mentioning the various Linux kernel patches released for AMD VersalNET, AMD hasn't said much publicly about "VersalNET" compared to other Versal2 SoCs. One of the Linux kernel patches further details AMD VersalNET SoC:

“AMD/Xilinx’s VersalNET (Network Adaptive Compute Acceleration Platform) is a next-generation adaptive platform designed for high-performance computing, networking and AI acceleration. It is part of the VersalACAP (Adaptive Compute Acceleration Platform) family.”

As part of VersalNET support, the AMDVN-X development board will be equipped with a VersalNET SoC configured with 16 Arm Cortex-A78 cores and additional IP blocks such as AMD/Xilinx FPGA. When searching for AMDVN-X for more insights, it does appear that there is an AMDVN-X-B2197-01 development board, but there are still very few details publicly available.

Initial mainline kernel support for AMD Versal NET SoC will be included in Linux 6.15 as part of the ARM/SoC update.