System Requirements

Xilinx Accelerator Card

  1. VCU1525
  2. TULVU9P

Host Platform

x86_64 host system with at least one Gen 3x16 PCIe slot and minimum 32GB RAM on same CPU node for 2K queues. For VM testing, host system must support virtualization and it must be enabled in the BIOS.

Host System Configuration

Linux QDMA Driver latest release is verified on following Host system configuration for PF and VF functionality

Host System Configuration Details
Operating System Ubuntu 18.04 LTS
Linux Kernel 4.15.0-23-generic
RAM 64GB on local NUMA node
Hypervisor KVM
Qemu Version QEMU emulator version 2.5.0 (Debian 1:2.5+dfsg-5ubuntu10.15)

Note: QEMU is a hosted virtual machine monitor which emulates the machine’s processor through dynamic binary translation and provides a set of different hardware and device models for the machine, enabling it to run a variety of guest operating systems.This is used to emulate the virtual machines and enables the users to attach virtual functions to virtual machines.

Guest System Configuration

Linux QDMA VF Driver latest release is verified on following Host system configuration for VF functionality

Guest System(VM) Configuration Details
Operating System Ubuntu 18.04 LTS
Linux Kernel 4.15.1-20-generic
RAM 4GB
Cores 4

Supported OS List

Linux QDMA Driver also supported on following OS and kernel versions

Operating System OS Version Kernel Version
CentOS 7.4-1708 3.10.0-693
7.5-1804 3.10.0-862
7.6-1810 3.10.0-957
Fedora 28 4.16
29 4.18
30 5.0
Ubuntu 14.04.06 4.4.0-93
16.04 4.10
18.04 4.15.0-23
18.04.2 3.10.0
18.04.2 3.10.0

Supported Kernel.org Version List

Linux QDMA Driver verified on following kernel.org versions

Kernel.org Kernel Version
  3.16.66
4.4.179
4.19.41
4.14.117
4.9.174
5.0.14

The following kernel functions shall be included in the OS kernel being used. Make sure that these functions are included in the kernel.

  • Timer Functions
  • PCIe Functions
  • Kernel Memory functions
  • Kernel threads
  • Memory and GFP Functions