opae-sdk-2.0.0

Open Programmable Acceleration Engine (OPAE) 2.0.0 Release Notes

OPAE 2.0.0 release provides SDK, tools, and Linux kernel driver. The main feature of this release is to support Intel® FPGA Programmable Acceleration Card N3000 series.

System Compatibility

• Hardware: Tightly coupled FPGA products and programmable FPGA acceleration cards for Intel(R) Xeon(R) processors:
  o Intel® FPGA Programmable Acceleration Card N3000-2 Production Release
  o Intel® FPGA Programmable Acceleration Card N3000-V Production Release
  o Intel® FPGA Programmable Acceleration Card N3000-3 Production Release
• Operating System: Tested on Fedora 31 with Linux Kernel 5.8 version.

Major Changes from 1.4.1 to 2.0.0

• Added support to FPGA Linux kernel Device Feature List (DFL) driver.
• Added support to PAC card N3000 series.
• Added PACSign, bitstreaminfo, fpgasupdate, rsu, fpgaport python tools.
• Added ethernet tools for PAC card N3000.
• Various bug fixes
• Various memory leak fixes.
• Various Static code scan bug fixes
• Added python3 support.
• OPAE USMG API are deprecated.
• Updated OPAE documentation.

Source Code

• FPGA DFL Linux driver source code: tag 2.0.0-1
  o https://github.com/OPAE/linux-dfl/tree/fpga-upstream-dev-5.8.0

• SDK and tools source code: tag 2.0.0-1
  o https://github.com/OPAE/opae-sdk/tree/release/2.0.0
  o https://github.com/OPAE/opae-libs/tree/release/2.0.0
  o https://github.com/OPAE/opae-legacy/tree/release/2.0.0
  o https://github.com/OPAE/opae-test/tree/release/2.0.0

Notes/Known Issues

• FPGA DFL kernel driver upstreaming to Linux kernel is ongoing.
• OPAE 2.0.0 is not be compatible with Intel production FPGA driver.