Intel® Acceleration Stack User Guide: Intel® FPGA Programmable Acceleration Card N3000-N/2

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Document Table of Contents x
1. About this Document 2. System Requirements 3. Hardware Installation 4. Installing the OPAE Software 5. Identify the Intel® MAX® 10 BMC Version 6. Intel XL710 Driver Installation and Firmware Update 7. Updating the Retimer Firmware 8. OPAE Tools 9. Sample Test: Native Loopback 10. Configuring Ethernet Interfaces 11. Testing Network Loopback Using Data Plane Development Kit (DPDK) 12. Graceful Shutdown 13. Single Event Upset (SEU) 14. Document Revision History for Intel Acceleration Stack User Guide: Intel® FPGA PAC N3000-N/2 A. Troubleshooting B. fpgabist Sample Output
1. About this Document x
1.1. Acronym List
3. Hardware Installation x
3.1. Installing the Intel® FPGA PAC N3000-N/2
4. Installing the OPAE Software x
4.1. Install the Release Package
4.1. Install the Release Package x
4.1.1. Remove Previous OPAE Packages 4.1.2. Install the Acceleration Stack for Runtime 4.1.3. Install the Acceleration Stack for Development 4.1.4. Verify the OPAE Installation
4.1.2. Install the Acceleration Stack for Runtime x
4.1.2.1. For RHEL 4.1.2.2. For CentOS
4.1.2.2. For CentOS x
4.1.2.2.1. Download kernel 4.19 4.1.2.2.2. Build and Install kernel 4.19 4.1.2.2.3. Install OPAE in kernel 4.19
5. Identify the Intel® MAX® 10 BMC Version x
5.1. FPGA Factory Image Overview
6. Intel XL710 Driver Installation and Firmware Update x
6.1. Installing the Intel XL710 Driver 6.2. Updating the Intel XL710 Firmware
8. OPAE Tools x
8.1. Using fpgasupdate 8.2. Using fpgainfo 8.3. Test PCIe and External Memories with fpgabist 8.4. Test Network Loopback using fpgadiag
10. Configuring Ethernet Interfaces x
10.1. Modifying the Interface Maximum Transmission Unit (MTU) Size 10.2. Setting Forward Error Correction (FEC) Mode 10.3. Ethernet Pause Flow Control 10.4. Get Link Statistics 10.5. Ethernet Link Status
11. Testing Network Loopback Using Data Plane Development Kit (DPDK) x
11.1. Test Using an External Traffic Generator 11.2. Revert Back from DPDK to OPAE
12. Graceful Shutdown x
12.1. Using OPAE
13. Single Event Upset (SEU) x
13.1. OPAE Handling of SEU
A. Troubleshooting x
A.1. If OPAE installation verification fails, how to install OPAE manually?
B. fpgabist Sample Output x
B.1. For 4x25G Configuration B.2. For 2x2x25G Configuration
1. About this Document
2. System Requirements
3. Hardware Installation
4. Installing the OPAE Software
5. Identify the Intel® MAX® 10 BMC Version
6. Intel XL710 Driver Installation and Firmware Update
7. Updating the Retimer Firmware
8. OPAE Tools
9. Sample Test: Native Loopback
10. Configuring Ethernet Interfaces
11. Testing Network Loopback Using Data Plane Development Kit (DPDK)
12. Graceful Shutdown
13. Single Event Upset (SEU)
14. Document Revision History for Intel Acceleration Stack User Guide: Intel® FPGA PAC N3000-N/2
A. Troubleshooting
B. fpgabist Sample Output

6. Intel XL710 Driver Installation and Firmware Update

The Intel XL710 device on the Intel® FPGA PAC N3000-N/2 is widely used on server network interface controller (NIC) cards. Both the Intel® FPGA PAC N3000-N/2 and server NIC cards use i40e and iavf software drivers for XL710 device.

If your server uses both Intel® FPGA PAC N3000-N/2 and server XL710 NIC cards, you must ensure that the XL710 NVM firmware and drivers are compatible. Refer to the Table: Software/NVM Compatibility for XXV710 in the Intel Ethernet Controller X710/ XXV710/XL710 Feature Support Matrix for NVM releases 7.3 and later. For RHEL 8.2, use NVM 8.0 or later for OS compatibility.

For operation without a server XL710 NIC card, the Intel® FPGA PAC N3000-N/2 has been tested with the following NVM and driver version:

Table 4.  NVM and Driver Version
Operating System NVM i40e iavf
CentOS 7.6 7.0 2.10.19.82 3.7.61.20
RHEL 8.2 7.0 2.12.6 3.9.5

The Intel® FPGA PAC N3000-N/2 is shipped with NVM 7.0.

To identify the XL710 device ID on the Intel® FPGA PAC N3000-N/2: 
$ lspci -d :0d58
Sample output: 
3d:00.0 Ethernet controller: Intel Corporation Device 0d58 (rev 02)
3d:00.1 Ethernet controller: Intel Corporation Device 0d58 (rev 02)
3f:00.0 Ethernet controller: Intel Corporation Device 0d58 (rev 02)
3f:00.1 Ethernet controller: Intel Corporation Device 0d58 (rev 02)
Table 5.  XL710 Device ID
XL710 Device ID Valid Configuration
0x0d58

2x2x25G

4x25G
Ensure that the lspci return entries match the device ID 0d58. Otherwise, your Intel® FPGA PAC does not support 25G configurations. XL710 device ID 0d58 is specific to the Intel® FPGA PAC N3000-N/2. Other NIC cards with the XL710 will have a different device ID.

Section Content
Installing the Intel XL710 Driver
Updating the Intel XL710 Firmware

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