Intel® Acceleration Stack for Intel® Xeon® CPU with FPGAs Version 2.0 Release Notes: For the Intel FPGA Programmable Acceleration Card D5005

ID 683594
Date 8/05/2019
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Known Issues for the Intel® Acceleration Stack v2.0 AFU Design Examples

Table 5.  Known Issues for the Intel® Acceleration Stack v2.0 AFU Design Examples
Known Issue Details
Compilation of nlb_mode_3 AFU from source produces incorrect nlb_400.gbs output.
  • Workaround:
    1. Change the default setting in $OPAE_PLATFORM_ROOT/hw/samples/nlb_mode_3/hw/rtl/filelist.txt from
      C:filelist_mode_0.txt
      to
      C:filelist_mode_3.txt
    2. Follow the AFU compilation steps as detailed in the Accelerator Functional Unit (AFU) Developer's Guide.
  • Status: This limitation will be fixed in a future version of the Intel® Acceleration Stack.
The streaming_dma_afu may contain timing violations.
  • Workaround: No workaround available.
  • Status: This limitation will be fixed in a future version of the Intel® Acceleration Stack.
The dma_afu may access an invalid host memory address causing a Translation Layer Packet Completion Status error (TLP CPL status error).
  • The dma_afu may attempt to fetch descriptors after the driver has deallocated memory.
  • Workaround: None available.
  • Status: Fix targeted for a future version of the Intel® Acceleration Stack.

When you test the 10Gbps Ethernet AFU in loopback mode, it loses a single packet after hot plug.

  • Workaround: Reset the Intel® FPGA Low Latency 10GbE MAC IP core before transmitting data as described in the Accelerator Functional Unit (AFU) Developer's Guide for the Intel FPGA Programmable Acceleration Card.
  • Status: Fix targeted for a future version of the Intel® Acceleration Stack.

After initial programming of the dma_afu subsequent partial reconfigurations may cause the kernel message to report errors.

  • You can ignore the kernel messages because they do not affect functionality of the dma_afu.
  • Workaround: None available.
  • Status: Fix targeted for a future version of the Intel® Acceleration Stack.