
•
5. Install the XRT installation package using the following command, where
<rpm-dir>
is the
directory where the RPM packages were downloaded in the previous step, and
<version>
is the latter part of the XRT file name.
$ sudo yum install <rpm-dir>/xrt_<version>.rpm
This will install the XRT and its necessary dependencies. Follow the instructions when
prompted throughout the installation.
6. Install the deployment shell installation package required for the card.
• For U200:
$ sudo yum install <rpm-dir>/xilinx-u200-xdma-<version>.rpm
• For U250:
$ sudo yum install <rpm-dir>/xilinx-u250-xdma-<version>.rpm
• For U280:
$ sudo yum install <rpm-dir>/xilinx-u280-es1-xdma-<version>.rpm
The deployment software sources are now installed on the system. The installation of the
drivers, runtime software, and utilities are in the
/opt/xilinx/
directory and contains the
xrt
and
dsa
sub-directories. Note that the
dsa
folder contains the deployment shell
installation.
7. After installing the deployment shell, the terminal instructs you to flash the card by running a
command listed in the output, as shown in the example below. Do NOT run this command.
You will manually generate the correct command in a subsequent step.
DSA package installed successfully.
Please flash card manually by running below command:
sudo /opt/xilinx/xrt/bin/xbutil flash -a <shell_name> -t <timestamp>
8. Cold boot your machine by fully powering it off and then on.
9. Follow the instructions in
Appendix C: Generating the xbutil flash Command
to manually
generate the correct
xbutil flash
command, which includes the
-d
option to specify the
card in the server to be flashed, as shown below. The
-a
and
-t
options specify the
deployment shell name and timestamp associated with the specific card ID.
sudo /opt/xilinx/xrt/bin/xbutil flash -a <shell_name> -t <timestamp> -d
<card_ID>
CAUTION! Not specifying the card ID within the
xbutil flash
command via the
-d
option can
result in damage to the card.
10. Run the manually generated
xbutil flash
command.
If you have multiple cards installed on the server, you MUST run the
xbutil flash
command separately for each card.
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