This repository is for the AMD XDNA™️ Driver (amdxdna.ko) for Linux®️ and XRT SHIM library development.

• Introduction
• System Requirements
• Linux compilation and installation
• Clone
• Build
• Test
• Q&A
• Contributor Guidelines

This repository is for supporting XRT on AMD XDNA devices. From this repository, you can build a XRT plugin DEB package. On a machine with XDNA device, with both XRT and XRT plugin packages installed, user can start using XDNA device on Linux.

To run AI applications, your system needs

• Processor:
  • To run AI applications (test machine): RyzenAI processor
  • To build this repository (build machine): Any x86 processors, but recommend AMD processor 😉
• Operating System: Ubuntu >= 22.04
• Linux Kernel: v6.8 with IOMMU SVA support (see below)
• Installed XRT base package (or you can install it along the following recipe)
  • To make sure the XRT base package works with the plug-in package, better build it from xrt submodule in this repo (<root-of-source-tree>/xrt)
  • Refer to https://github.com/Xilinx/XRT for more detailed information.

Important: IOMMU SVA in Linux kernel support is required.

You need to manually build 6.8 Linux kernel packages by following below steps.

The 6.8 Linux kernel with SVA source code can be downloaded from v6.8-iommu-sva-part4-v7 on https://github.com/AMD-SW/linux

# Assuming you have knowledge of kernel compilation,
# this is just refreshing up a few key points.

git clone --depth=1 --branch v6.8-iommu-sva-part4-v7 [email protected]:AMD-SW/linux
cd linux

# Usually, when people compile kernel from source code, they use current config.
cp /boot/config-`uname -r` <your_build_dir>/.config   # (Option step, if you know how to do it better)
# Open <your_build_dir>/.config and add "CONFIG_DRM_ACCEL=y" #Required by XDNA Driver
# Or run instead
scripts/config --file .config --enable DRM_ACCEL

# Otherwise if you do not have a `.config` file modern enough, you can
# get one for Debian/Ubuntu with
https://gist.github.com/keryell/a0d0c020f81128d0f0071f16c9022000/raw/069d79a53fd20193ea4c9fa469d84ffc334229bb/.config

# Use below command to build kernel packages. Once build is done, DEB packages are at the parent directory of <your_build_dir>
make -j `nproc` bindeb-pkg
# The exact names will depend on your configuration
sudo apt reinstall ../linux-headers-6.8.5+iommu-sva-part4-v7+_6.8.5-00095-g88132f705404-2_amd64.deb ../linux-image-6.8.5+iommu-sva-part4-v7+_6.8.5-00095-g88132f705404-2_amd64.deb ../linux-libc-dev_6.8.5-00095-g88132f705404-2_amd64.deb

git clone [email protected]:amd/xdna-driver.git
cd <root-of-source-tree>
# get code for submodules
git submodule update --init --recursive

• If this is your first time building this module, follow below steps to resolve the dependencies or at least look at the file content

#requires root permissions to run the script
sudo su
cd <root-of-source-tree>
./tools/amdxdna_deps.sh
# exit from root
exit

cd <root-of-source-tree>/build

# If you do not have XRT installed yet:
cd xrt/build
./build.sh
# To adapt according to your OS & version
sudo apt reinstall ./Release/xrt_202410.2.17.0_23.10-amd64-xrt.deb ./Release/xrt_202410.2.17.0_23.10-amd64-xbflash2.deb
cd ../../build

# Start XDNA driver release build
./build.sh -release

# Create DEB package for existed release or debug build.
./build.sh -package
# To adapt according to your OS & version
sudo apt reinstall ./Release/xrt_plugin.2.17.0_ubuntu23.10-x86_64-amdxdna.deb

You will find xrt_plugin\*-amdxdna.deb in Release/ folder. This package includes:

• The .so library files, which will be installed into /opt/xilinx/xrt/lib folder
• The XDNA driver and DKMS script, which build, install and load amdxdna.ko driver when installing the .DEB package on target machine
• The firmware binary files, which will be installed to /usr/lib/firmware/amdnpu folder

If you haven't read System Requirements, double check it.

source /opt/xilinx/xrt/setup.sh
cd <root-of-source-tree>/build

# Build the test program
./build.sh -example

# Run the test
./example_build/example_noop_test ../tools/bins/1502_00/validate.xclbin

A: We have debug version of library, which is compiled with -g option. You can run ./build.sh -debug or ./build.sh. To create a debug DEB package, run ./build.sh -package afterward.

A: XDNA_DBG() relies on Linux's CONFIG_DYNAMIC_DEBUG framework, see Linux's dynamic debug howto page for details. TL;DR, run sudo insmod amdxdna.ko dyndbg=+pf to enable XDNA_DBG() globally, where +pf means enable debug printing and print the function name.

A: Create a debug DEB package, see above question. Then install debug DEB package in your environment. This time, you will have more verbose log. Share this log with us.

1. Read Getting Started
2. Read System Requirements
3. Run Linux checkpatch.pl before commit and create pull request, see Checkpatch

There is a pre-commit script for this purpose.

cp amd-aie/tools/pre-commit <root-of-source-tree>/.git/hooks/

git commit will reject the commit if error/warning is found, until you make checkpatch.pl happy.