FIM and BMC Firmware not available on Acceleration Board A10 - FIM and BMC Firmware not available on Acceleration Board A10 I was installing OPAE on host machine, my PC, for Intel Programmable Acceleration Card with Intel Arria 10 GX FPGA and encounted the attached problem when ruuning the following command $ sudo fpgainfo fme Any helpful suggestion ? Thanks Replies: Re: FIM and BMC Firmware not available on Acceleration Board A10 Sure. Glad to be able to help on you on updating your board. Replies: Re: FIM and BMC Firmware not available on Acceleration Board A10 Hi, I've already fixed this issue by rerunning the command in related section of user guide. By now, I only have the problem of compiling the hello_afu example which we discussed in another post. Thanks! Replies: Re: FIM and BMC Firmware not available on Acceleration Board A10 The attachment is full log of what I was performing and the result. Replies: Re: FIM and BMC Firmware not available on Acceleration Board A10 Hi, Could you provide the step you used to performed the testing? Replies: Re: FIM and BMC Firmware not available on Acceleration Board A10 I don't know about other bitstream. I just want to configure and run diagnostics with NLB_3 AFU image because in section 5 of quick start guide saying current AFUs accepted are nlb_mode_3 and dma_afu. If this step doesn't complete, will it affect the future design? Replies: Re: FIM and BMC Firmware not available on Acceleration Board A10 Hi, How about other bitstream? Or are you facing issue on nlb bitstream? Replies: Re: FIM and BMC Firmware not available on Acceleration Board A10 Not working, the AFU is still unknown for available BIST Modes: /hw/samples/dma_afu/bin/dma_afu.gbs the same as before when I ran sudo fpgabist $OPAE_PLATFORM_ROOT/hw/samples/nlb_mode_3/bin/\ nlb_mode_3.gbs. Replies: Re: FIM and BMC Firmware not available on Acceleration Board A10 Hi, It looks like you are able to run Hello World without any issue. Could you retry with the nlb design? Replies: Re: FIM and BMC Firmware not available on Acceleration Board A10 So first of all, after the update, I ran sudo fpgainfo fme to check FIM and BMC version After that, I ran sudo sh -c "echo 20 > /sys/kernel/mm/hugepages/hugepages-\2048kB/nr_hugepages" to configure the number of system hugepages the FPGA fpgadiag utility requires. Then I ran sudo fpgabist $OPAE_PLATFORM_ROOT/hw/samples/nlb_mode_3/bin/\nlb_mode_3.gbs to configure and run diagnostics with NLB_3 AFU image and get the result of screenshot in previous reply. On top of that, I ignored this issue and ran the hello_fpga example getting the result as shown in following screenshot: Does it mean I've already brought up the card? Replies: Re: FIM and BMC Firmware not available on Acceleration Board A10 Hi, May I know if you have configure the FPGA using bitstream from 1.2? Could you provide me the step that you used? Replies: Re: FIM and BMC Firmware not available on Acceleration Board A10 Thanks for the advice. I've successfully upgraded the card to 1.2 version. Well, the new problem is when I moved on to the next part, Running FPGA Diagnostics, in the user guide and run the command sudo fpgabist $OPAE_PLATFORM_ROOT/hw/samples/nlb_mode_3/bin/\ nlb_mode_3.gbs it gave the result of Unknown AFU for available BIST Modes: /hw/samples/dma_afu/bin/dma_afu.gbs rather than the sample output. What does this mean? Was I missing something? Replies: Re: FIM and BMC Firmware not available on Acceleration Board A10 Hi, Since your PAC card is from 1.0Beta version, you will need to update it to 1.1 version before proceeding to 1.2. So you will need to update the board to 1.1 PV before updating to 1.2 PV. Sorry for the inconvenience. Follow the "Identifying and Updating FIM" section of the 1.1PV version of the Intel Acceleration Stack Quick Start Guide for Intel Programmable Acceleration Card with Intel Arria 10 GX FPGA to first update to 1.1PV FIM (dcp_1_1.rpd). Note: • It is acceptable to leverage the 1.2 OPAE packages when following the FIM update instructions from the 1.1PV version of the Intel Acceleration Stack Quick Start Guide for Intel Programmable Acceleration Card with Intel Arria 10 GX FPGA. • 1.1PV runtime download package can be located here. For access to the previous version of the Intel Acceleration Stack Quick Start Guide for Intel Programmable Acceleration Card with Intel Arria 10 GX FPGA, refer to the "Intel Acceleration Stack Quick Start Guide for Intel Programmable Acceleration Card with Intel Arria 10 GX FPGA Archives" section. 2. Follow the instructions in the "Updating FPGA Flash and BMC Firmware" section in the current version of this document Replies: Re: FIM and BMC Firmware not available on Acceleration Board A10 After I wrote fixed the bus, the script can run till finished but during the process there were some errors which I was not sure the first part of upgrade conpleted. Besides, when I came to the second part of installation using same script, there was a new error occurred as shown in following screenshot Here is the result using sudo fpgainfo fme command. It seems the card is now on 1.0 beta version according to the Pr Interface Id number, which made me confused. And still, the FW version is not available. Replies: Re: FIM and BMC Firmware not available on Acceleration Board A10 Hi, Yeah, you can try that out. Replies: Re: FIM and BMC Firmware not available on Acceleration Board A10 Okay, sorry I missed that. So should I write this bus fixed in the script? Replies: Re: FIM and BMC Firmware not available on Acceleration Board A10 HI, If you look into the error when you performed the update on the FIM and BMC, it is performing "sudo setpci -s 0000:00:01.0 ECAP_AER+0x08.L=0xFFFFFFFF" where the correct PCI to use based on your system is "sudo setpci -s 0000:01:00.0 ECAP_AER+0x08.L=0xFFFFFFFF" Replies: Re: FIM and BMC Firmware not available on Acceleration Board A10 Hi, What do you mean by selecting correct bus? I didn't do anything about PCIe bus. And how to check it? By the way, what I'm doing is quite urgent and it has already delayed. Is there any better way to improve the efficiency of communication? Thanks! Replies: Re: FIM and BMC Firmware not available on Acceleration Board A10 Hi, It looks like you are able to set it without any issue. The previous error you observed is due to the incorrect PCIe bus used. May I know if you are selecting the correct bus when you performed the update? Replies: Re: FIM and BMC Firmware not available on Acceleration Board A10 I tried this command but nothing happened. Should I try to remove the card and set it on another PCIe interface? Replies: Re: FIM and BMC Firmware not available on Acceleration Board A10 Hi, From the screen shot provided, it looks like the update is performing the update on the wrong PCIe. Could you try to performed "sudo setpci -s 0000:01:00.0 ECAP_AER+0x08.L=0xFFFFFFFF"? Replies: Re: FIM and BMC Firmware not available on Acceleration Board A10 Here is the result. Replies: Re: FIM and BMC Firmware not available on Acceleration Board A10 Hi, Could you try "lspci -vv | grep 09c[45] " and provide me the screenshot the information? Replies: Re: FIM and BMC Firmware not available on Acceleration Board A10 This is my specific log in terms of updating. Starting the updating process： sl@v-pc:~/inteldevstack/a10_gx_pac_ias_1_2_pv$ ./setup_fim_and_bmc.sh -b 01 -d 0 -f 0 -p /home/sl/inteldevstack/a10_gx_pac_ias_1_2_pv Pre-requisites Intel FPGA driver and OPAE must be installed Bittware Tools must be installed CentOS tool version: sudo yum install bw2tk-lite-2018.4.0.el7.x86_64.rpm Ubuntu tool version: sudo dpkg -i bw2tk-lite-2018.4.0.u1604.amd64.deb Bittware tools must be added to PATH; export PATH=/opt/bwtk/2018.4.0L/bin/:$PATH Only one PAC card must be connected to the host server using the Intel FPGA Download cable Do not interrupt the script flow, this could brick the board !!!Exit(Ctrl- C) and Refer to the Intel Acceleration Stack for Intel Programmable Acceleration Card with Intel A10 GX FPGA Quick Start Guide if above steps are not completed Do you want to continue with the FIM and BMC upgrade? (Y/n): y Two part install process: Part 1: Install FIM and program BMC application <Power Cycle>; reboot is not sufficient Part 2: Install BMC bootloader and update remainder of BMC application Please type a selection or press Enter to accept default choice [ 1 ]: 1 Provide directory path to BMC firmware and Bootloader: /home/sl/inteldevstack [sudo] password for sl: >>> Running cmd: bwconfig --scan=usb Scanning for devices [result]: Board Type (Name), Serial, VendorID, DeviceID, USB-Address [0]: 0x5f (A10SA4) 203511 0x2528 0x0004 0x6 Updating the FIM Image >>> Running cmd: sudo fpgaflash user /home/sl/inteldevstack/a10_gx_pac_ias_1_2_pv/hw/blue_bits/dcp*.rpd 0000:01:00.0 flash size is 134217728 reversing bits erasing flash writing flash reading back flash verifying flash flash successfully verified >>> Running cmd: bwmonitor --dev=0 --type=bmc --flags=0x81 --write BMC flags set to 81 Mon Jul 13 15:19:46 2020 Disable AER for PCIe Root Port >>> Running cmd: sudo setpci -s 0000:00:01.0 ECAP_AER+0x08.L=0xFFFFFFFF setpci: 0000:00:01.0: Extended capability 0001 not found Command: "sudo setpci -s 0000:00:01.0 ECAP_AER+0x08.L=0xFFFFFFFF" exited with error code: 1 Here is where the error occurs and quits the script. Replies: Re: FIM and BMC Firmware not available on Acceleration Board A10 Here are my steps: first executing script, then answering Y, typing 1, and providing the directory where I put the Bitware Tool. It always stuck on sudo setpci ... this step and quit. Replies: Re: FIM and BMC Firmware not available on Acceleration Board A10 Hi. Could provide me the step you used and where it is stuck? Replies: Re: FIM and BMC Firmware not available on Acceleration Board A10 I did both but the issue is still there. Is this problem normal? Replies: Re: FIM and BMC Firmware not available on Acceleration Board A10 Hi, When you mention reboot, do you performed soft reboot or hard reboot? I would recommend you to shut down your system and power on again to see if the issue is still observed. Replies: Re: FIM and BMC Firmware not available on Acceleration Board A10 Yes, I did reboot the system and the device was detected as well. The script still stopped there. Replies: Re: FIM and BMC Firmware not available on Acceleration Board A10 Hi, Have you try power cycle your system? Are you able to detect the PAC card? Replies: Re: FIM and BMC Firmware not available on Acceleration Board A10 Alright, that issue is passed. Now I'm updating the FIM and BMC from 1.1 to 1.2 but after running setup_fim_and_bmc.sh for a while and flash successfully verified, the following error happens: I tried several times to rerun but it always stopped here. Replies: Re: FIM and BMC Firmware not available on Acceleration Board A10 Replies: Re: FIM and BMC Firmware not available on Acceleration Board A10 Hi, If you look into the quick userguide, you will observed "sudo yum remove opae-*.x86_64" which is to remove all the OPAE library. Replies: Re: FIM and BMC Firmware not available on Acceleration Board A10 That could be the problem but I didn't find any uninstall instruction provided on the guide and I've already removed the OPAE using command line. Is there any other way to uninstall the stack? Thanks! Replies: Re: FIM and BMC Firmware not available on Acceleration Board A10 Hi, When you install the version 1.2, I think you didn't uninstall the 1.2.1 which causes the conflict. Usually I would recommend user to uninstall the previous library use in order to downgrade the acceleration stack version. Replies: Re: FIM and BMC Firmware not available on Acceleration Board A10 I know the problem is about system setup as I attached a screenshot describing the conflict between OPAE-lib and libjson. But this issue never happened before when I installed the 1.2.1 acceleration stack at very first time. To be specific, in the after installation process, when I launch the setup.sh and answer all questions with Yes and set path to the default, the script will quit with a dependency problem(opae-lib depend on libjson) but I already have the libjson at the newest version, which makes me confused. Now I put the PAC board on another PC and install the acceleraiton stack 1.2, finding it is the problem of lower version of FIM and BMC firmware on PAC board (1.1). I'm contacting the Bitware to get the BittWorks II Toolkit Lite software as I see the instruction about how to update FIM and BMC version to 1.2 on the quick start guide. Hope this will solve the problem and bring up the PAC board. Replies: Re: FIM and BMC Firmware not available on Acceleration Board A10 Hi, May I know what is the issue that you are observing? If it is related to the initial screenshot then this is related to system setup issue and not related to PAC card. Replies: Re: FIM and BMC Firmware not available on Acceleration Board A10 The problem is still there. Even happens when I reinstall the previous 1.2.1 version, which did not happen before. Now I remove the card and put it on another PC trying to install the 1.2 version. Replies: Re: FIM and BMC Firmware not available on Acceleration Board A10 Hi, May I know if the issue is fixed after you removed the conflict? Replies: Re: FIM and BMC Firmware not available on Acceleration Board A10 Thanks but that's the one I've downloaded for updating and the problem emerged during the process. There is always a conflict between opae-lib and libjson Replies: Re: FIM and BMC Firmware not available on Acceleration Board A10 Hi, I would recommend you to download Acceleration Stack 1.2 from https://www.intel.com/content/www/us/en/programmable/solutions/acceleration-hub/archives.html and update the FIM and BMC. Replies: Re: FIM and BMC Firmware not available on Acceleration Board A10 Hi, now I have a new issue during updating process: It always stops here when I run setup.sh even after I install this package dependency. Replies: Re: FIM and BMC Firmware not available on Acceleration Board A10 Right, I guess I used the 1.1 version of acceleration stack but I directly download from here which I thought it could be installed as 1.2.1 version. Then I found the upgrade page here Is it right for updating the FIM and BMC version? Thanks! Replies: Re: FIM and BMC Firmware not available on Acceleration Board A10 Hi, May I know which acceleration stack version are you using for your installation? The board that you are using is from Acceleration Stack 1.1. So if you are using Acceleration Stack 1.2 or 1.2.1 then I would recommend you to update your board to the Acceleration Stack software you are using before moving forward.