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11 years ago

AOCL with the DE5-Net on Ubuntu workstation : Recompiling the PCIe driver from source

Hello everyone, I have recently acquired a DE5-Net development kit from Terasic. This board includes a StratixV GX from Altera. However, the PCIe driver bundled with it targets a RedHat Linux...
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11 years ago

You are right that the PCIe driver is not supporting Ubuntu, but there is a way to workaround this. To do so, you will need to modify your board package.

1. Go to the driver source location ($AOCL_BOARD_PACKAGE_ROOT/host/linux64/driver). In file "aclpci_cmd.c", and comment out the following lines

if (dev->aer_firmware_first) {

return -EIO;

}

2. In the same directory, the file "make_all.sh", modify the line from

SRC_PATH=/usr/src/kernels/`uname -r`-`uname -m`

to

SRC_PATH=/lib/modules/`uname -r`/build

3. Go to $AOCL_BOARD_PACKAGE_ROOT/linux64/bin, modify the "install" script. Add commands to create the directories for both MODPROBE_FILE (sudo mkdir -p /etc/sysconfig/modules) and RULE_FILE (sudo mkdir -p /etc/udev/rules.d) before those files are created.

After the three steps above, you should be able to install the driver by running "aocl install". I have successfully installed and run the driver on Ubuntu with a Nallatech board before. Hopes this works for you as well.