Hi, All:
We are pleased to announce Open Programmable Acceleration Engine (OPAE) 2.1.0-1 community release today.
Open Programmable Acceleration Engine (OPAE) 2.1.0-1 Release Notes
OPAE 2.1.0-1 release provides SDK, tools, and Linux kernel driver. The main feature of this release is to support Intel(r) FPGA Device Feature List (DFL) Driver that has been upstreamed to Linux Kernel version up to v5.17.
Systems Compatibility
* Intel(r) FPGA Programmable Acceleration Card N3000 Production Release: Tested on Fedora 34 system with Intel FPGA DFL Kernel v5.17-rc8 Driver
* Intel(r) FPGA Programmable Acceleration Card N6000 OFS2022.1 Release: Tested on CentOS Stream8.x with Intel FPGA DFL Kernel v5.15-lts Driver
Major Changes from 2.0.0-2 to 2.1.0-1
* OPAE SDK repository restructure. Please see OPAE Wiki<https://github.com/OPAE/opae-sdk/wiki> news.
* Updated OPAE spec file and tarball generation script.
* Added support to Intel(r) FPGA DFL Driver that has been upstreamed to Linux Kernel v5.7-5.17.
* Added support to Intel(r) FPGA Programmable Acceleration Card N6000.
* Removed OPAE-SIM from OPAE-SDK.
* Various bug fixes
* Updated OPAE documentation. Please see OPAE2.1.0 Document<https://opae.github.io/2.1.0/index.html> and DFL Driver Document<https://github.com/OPAE/linux-dfl/wiki>.
Source Code
* OPAE SDK and tools source code:
Tag: 2.1.0-1: https://github.com/OPAE/opae-sdk/tree/2.1.0-1
Branch: https://github.com/OPAE/opae-sdk/tree/release/2.1.0
* Intel(r) FPGA DFL Linux driver source code for Intel(r) FPGA Programmable Acceleration Card N3000 Production Release:
Tag: opae-2.1.0-1: https://github.com/OPAE/linux-dfl/tree/opae-2.1.0-1
Branch: https://github.com/OPAE/linux-dfl/tree/fpga-upstream-dev-5.17-rc8
* Intel(r) FPGA DFL Linux driver source code for Intel(r) FPGA Programmable Acceleration Card N6000 OFS2022.1 Release:
Tag: ofs-2022-1: https://github.com/OPAE/linux-dfl/tree/ofs-2022.1-1
Branch: https://github.com/OPAE/linux-dfl/tree/fpga-ofs-dev-5.15-lts
Notes/Known Issues
* FPGA DFL kernel driver upstreaming to Linux kernel is ongoing.
- The OPAE Development Team
