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!

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.

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

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.

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.

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!

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.

Yes, I did reboot the system and the device was detected as well. The script still stopped there.

I did both but the issue is still there. Is this problem normal?

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.

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

1. Intel FPGA driver and OPAE must be installed
2. 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

3. Only one PAC card must be connected to the host server using the Intel FPGA Download cable
4. 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.

Here is the result.