feat: Fedora Support ?

[Mylab6]

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• I've taken a look at existing feature requests
• This feature request relates to GAIA UI (Open-WebUI)

What's on your mind?

Hi, it would be nice if Fedora was officially supported.

Anyway this can be accomplished?

[kovtcharov]

Hi @Mylab6, we currently have no short term plans to support Fedora. However, if you have interest in contributing support for it including CI/CD tests, we'd be happy to include it. I don't believe it should be difficult to do.

cc: @itomek

[Mylab6]

So will the cli installation work? What about drivers ?

[itomek]

So will the cli installation work? What about drivers ?

I cannot answer this at this time as it would require deeper investigation, but it looks potentially doable. This user managed to get it to work: #9 (comment)

[0n1cOn3]

Thanks for mentioning me @itomek

@Mylab6
Yes, thats correct. I got GAIA to run on Fedora but with one caviat.

The NPU is existing and i can see it with lspci

(c5:00.1 Signal processing controller: Advanced Micro Devices, Inc. [AMD] Strix/Krackan/Strix Halo Neural Processing Unit (rev 10)```

Drivers are installed and running:

/opt/xilinx/xrt/bin $ sudo ./xrt-smi examine
System Configuration
  OS Name              : Linux
  Release              : 6.17.5-200.fc42.x86_64
  Machine              : x86_64
  CPU Cores            : 24
  Memory               : 55860 MB
  Distribution         : Fedora Linux 42 (KDE Plasma Desktop Edition)
  GLIBC                : 2.41
  Model                : 21RX0010MZ
  BIOS Vendor          : LENOVO
  BIOS Version         : R2XET33W (1.13 )

XRT
  Version              : 2.20.0
  Branch               : HEAD
  Hash                 : a62axxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx15a3
  Hash Date            : 2025-08-05 21:31:53
  amdxdna              : unknown, unknown
  virtio-pci           : unknown, unknown
  NPU Firmware Version : 1.0.0.63

Device(s) Present
|BDF             |Name          |
|----------------|--------------|
|[0000:c5:00.1]  |RyzenAI-npu4  |

But GAIA lacks the API support for Linux and its kernel modules for the NPU.

[artemave]

But GAIA lacks the API support for Linux and its kernel modules for the NPU.

Isn't NPU support the whole point of using GAIA in the first place? (I am trying to make sense of all this so excuse my ignorance).

[0n1cOn3]

Isn't NPU support the whole point of using GAIA in the first place?

Not even that, it should get use of everything your system is capable of. I will reach 80 TOPS with GPU, NPU and CPU combined iirc.