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

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Date 11/01/2021
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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

6.1. Installing the Intel XL710 Driver

Select the appropriate i40e and iavf driver for the XL710 NVM based on Table: Software/NVM Compatibility for XXV710 in the Intel Ethernet Controller X710/ XXV710/XL710 Feature Support Matrix.
Remember: Table: Software/NVM Compatibility for XXV710 is updated periodically.
Follow these steps to install the Intel XL710 driver:
  1. Download the i40e driver from download center or subcribe to i40e driver on sourceforge.
  2. Install driver as root.
    $ tar xvzf i40e-2.12.6.tar.gz ; cd i40e-2.12.6
    $ cd src
    $ sudo make install
    $ sudo rmmod i40e
    $ sudo insmod i40e.ko
  3. Download the i40e virtual function driver from download center or subcribe to i40e virtual function driver on sourceforge.
  4. Install driver as root.
    $ tar xzvf iavf-3.9.5.tar.gz ; cd iavf-3.9.5
    $ cd src
    $ sudo make install
    Insert the iavf kernel module to add support for virtual functions for Intel XL710: 
    $ sudo insmod iavf.ko
Note: You may see the following errors during iavf driver install: 
SSL error:02001002:system library:fopen:No such file or directory: crypto/bio/bss_file.c:72
SSL error:2006D080:BIO routines:BIO_new_file:no such file: crypto/bio/bss_file.c:79

It is safe to ignore these error messages. These errors are related to verification of digital signature of the driver. As the iavf Linux drivers are not digitally signed, the errors are to be expected on some operating system. These errors do not impact the functionality of the XL710 other than possible warnings in dmesg.

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