6. You will be asked to confirm the update, as shown below. Type y and enter.
Probing board[0]: DSA on FPGA needs updating
DSA on below cards will be updated:
Card [0]
Are you sure you wish to proceed? [y/n]
Flashing will take up to 10 minutes. Successfully flashing a new card results in a message
similar to the one shown below. If you do not see one, refer to
INFO: ***Found 880 ELA Records
Idcode byte[0] ff
Idcode byte[1] 20
Idcode byte[2] bb
Idcode byte[3] 21
Idcode byte[4] 10
Enabled bitstream guard. Bitstream will not be loaded until flashing is
finished.
Erasing flash............................................
Programming flash............................................
Cleared bitstream guard. Bitstream now active.
DSA image flashed succesfully
Cold reboot machine to load the new image on FPGA
7. Cold boot the machine to load the new firmware image on the FPGA.
The deployment shell package has now successfully been downgraded.
8. Downgrade the XRT package by running the following command in a Linux terminal. The XRT
package name is the name of the package file downloaded in step 1.
$ sudo yum downgrade <rpm-dir>/<desired_xrt_version>.rpm
9. Reboot your machine.
The XRT has now successfully been downgraded.
Uninstalling Packages
To completely uninstall the Alveo XRT and deployment shell packages, run the following
command in a Linux terminal. Uninstalling XRT also uninstalls the deployment shell.
$ sudo apt remove <xrt_package_name>
Note
:
Make sure that all of the shell packages are displayed in the output terminal after running the
command. If not, manually list the packages using the
list
command at the beginning of this section,
then delete the remaining packages using the
remove
command.
Chapter 4: Installing the Deployment Software
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