Kunpeng Acceleration Engine Driver

• Introduction
• License
• Requirements
• Installation Instructions
• Contribution guidelines
• More Information
• Copyright

Introduction

It is the driver for the Kunpeng Acceleration Engine, which is to build performance competitiveness of common software libraries on the Kunpeng platform.

KAE driver is a new technology within Hisilicon Kunpeng 920 processors，provides a hardware-enabled foundation for security, authentication, and compression. It significantly increases the performance across cloud, networking, big data, and storage applications and platforms. For more information, please see the following location at:

https://github.com/kunpengcompute/KAE

License

The Licensing of the files within this project is split as follows:

The kernel-space KAE driver is under the SPDX-GPL-2.0. Please see the LICENSE file in the top level of kae_driver.

The user-space KAE driver is under the APACHE LICENSE, VERSION 2.0. Please see the LICENSE file in the top level of warpdrive.

Requirements

• CPU: Kunpeng 920
• Operating System:
  • CentOS 7.6 4.14.0-115.el7a.0.1.aarch64 version
  • SuSE 15.1 4.12.14-195-default arch64 version
  • NeoKylin 7.6 4.14.0-115.5.1.el7a.06.aarch64 version
  • EulerOS 2.8 4.19.36-vhulk1907.1.0.h410.eulerosv2r8.aarch64 version
  • BCLinux-R7-U6-Server-aarch64 version
  • Kylin 4.0.2 (juniper) 4.15.0-70-generic version
  • Kylin release 4.0.2 (SP2) 4.19.36-vhulk1907.1.0.h403.ky4.aarch64 version
  • UniKylin Linux release 3(Core) 4.18.0-80.ky3.kb21.hw.aarch64 version
  • Ubuntu 18.04.1 LTS 4.15.0-29-generic version

Installation Instructions

Download the release version of Kunpeng Accelerator Engine Driver from:

https://github.com/kunpengcompute/KAEdriver

Note: To build the Kunpeng Accelerator Engine Driver, install the kernel-devel package first.

Firstly, install the accelerator driver:

cd kae_driver
make
make install
modprobe uacce
modprobe hisi_qm
modprobe hisi_sec2
modprobe hisi_hpre
modprobe hisi_zip
modprobe hisi_rde

Check the accelerator driver has been loaded successfully by running the lsmod command.

uacce.ko, hisi_qm.ko, sgl.ko, hisi_sec2.ko, hisi_hpre.ko, hisi_zip.ko should be in the list.

Secondly, install the warpdrive:

cd warpdrive
sh autogen.sh 
./configure 
make 
make install

Check the accelerator driver has been loaded successfully by running the ls -al /usr/local/lib command. libwd.so should be in the list.

for more install guid and user guid, get information at: https://www.huaweicloud.com/kunpeng/software/accelerator.html

Contribution guidelines

If you want to contribute to KAE driver, please use GitHub issues for tracking requests and bugs.

More Information

For further assistance, contact Huawei Support at:

https://support.huawei.com

https://www.huaweicloud.com/kunpeng/software/accelerator.html

Copyright

Copyright © 2018 Huawei Corporation. All rights reserved.