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7 years ago

kernel driver mismatch after switching from SDK 16.1 to 17.1

We have recently switched from SDK16.1 to 17.1 The aocl diagnose works fine. The aoc -list-boards shows the boards as expected. The aoc full compile works. The make works for the host pro...
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7 years ago

I am not sure what the error message is exactly trying to say. It could be a mismatch between driver and FPGA image, it could be mismatch between host code and driver version, etc. As long as you make sure the following criteria is met, it should work:

- Environmental variables point to the new BSP

- PCI-E driver is updated to new version using "aocl install"

- FPGA image/binary is updated to new version through PCI-E/JTAG using an OpenCL image/bianry compiled with the new version

- Host code is compiled against the new version of the BSP

- Kernel code is compiled again the new version of the BSP