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#openstack-cyborg - 2018-01-17
15:54:37 zhuli thanks, that's very helpful
15:55:20 Dutch These are most of the user guides in one place instead of dealing with the PDFs, contents are the same
15:55:21 zhipeng gr8t thx!
15:55:40 zhipeng are there any support yet in the OpenStack for SDAccel ?
15:55:46 zhipeng for example nova driver ?
15:56:41 Dutch There is also a helpful platform guide UG1164, this is still a PDF
15:56:47 Dutch #link https://www.xilinx.com/support/documentation/sw_manuals/xilinx2017_4/ug1164-sdaccel-platform-development.pdf
15:57:11 NokMikeR are there any xilinx parts with an open bitstream? (and tools to program them)?
15:57:33 Dutch Still no nova support, our openstack cluster is using pass-through, which as you can image is a serious limitation
15:59:08 Dutch The drivers could be open, but bitstream generation is IP so unlikely we will ever see that open
16:00:00 Dutch NokMikeR, what in particular do you want open?
16:00:40 NokMikeR any way to program the device via e.g an arm cpu so the synthesis and routing is done on the board - that way the entry level for the programmer is lower.
16:03:13 Dutch For drivers and runtime, absolutely. For synthesis and P&R, I am less sure.
16:04:01 Dutch I am also not sure what "done on the board" means
16:04:59 NokMikeR pcie board with fpga + additional cpu to generate the bitstream. you send that vhdl/verilog, "other code" and it all magically works :)
16:05:34 NokMikeR self contained basically. no reliance on vivado etc.
16:06:10 NokMikeR anyhow we are offtopic here, so Howard please carry on :)
16:06:26 zhipeng no this is actually an interesting topic :P
16:06:27 Dutch It is nice to think about but yeah, I would say that is a ways off
16:07:25 zhipeng NokMikeR I know there are open source bitstream FPGA cards, but not sure if it is production level
16:07:46 Dutch It might be possible to run Vivado on the add-in-card but as far as Vivado being open that seems very unlikely
16:08:03 Dutch I would push the currently open project to do something like this
16:08:25 zhipeng Dutch so coming back to SDAccel, the software defined here refering to ?
16:09:25 Dutch SDAccell was initially built to support OpenCL memory model, and there is also support for OpenCL kernel code
16:09:49 Dutch but it has advanced some to support iteration of HLS C and RTL IP
16:10:21 zhipeng got it
16:10:38 Dutch It was designed to be flexible so that it would support future models, MPI for example
16:11:10 zhipeng folks thx very much for the gr8t discussion today, i'm afraid I have to close the meeting now
16:11:45 zhipeng please go help reviewing the patch or drafting one, we have two weeks left before Queens code freeze
16:12:05 zhipeng so let's squeeze in as many stuff as we could :)
16:12:33 NokMikeR was the devstack bug report about the permissions for cyborg solved?
16:13:14 zhipeng yes NokMikeR
16:13:22 NokMikeR Great :)
16:14:09 zhipeng okey meeting adjourned
16:14:13 zhipeng #endmeeting
16:14:15 openstack Meeting ended Wed Jan 17 16:14:13 2018 UTC. Information about MeetBot at http://wiki.debian.org/MeetBot . (v 0.1.4)
16:14:16 openstack Minutes: http://eavesdrop.openstack.org/meetings/openstack_cyborg/2018/openstack_cyborg.2018-01-17-15.03.html
16:14:17 openstack Minutes (text): http://eavesdrop.openstack.org/meetings/openstack_cyborg/2018/openstack_cyborg.2018-01-17-15.03.txt
16:14:18 openstack Log: http://eavesdrop.openstack.org/meetings/openstack_cyborg/2018/openstack_cyborg.2018-01-17-15.03.log.html
16:14:49 Vipparthy Thank you folks
16:14:56 NokMikeR Thanks all, bye
16:15:12 Dutch Thanks!
17:51:07 guhcampos Hi folks, a quick question: I may need to implement our driver for cyborg. Is there a way to write it as a plugin? Like a separate python package that can be installed alongside cyborg? Or do I have to add it to cyborg's tree alongside the generic driver?
17:54:46 crushil_ guhcampos, Add it to Cyborg's tree alongside the generic driver
17:55:28 guhcampos crushil_, thanks. I needed this confirmation to pressure management to sign the contributor agreement
#openstack-cyborg - 2018-01-24
14:55:03 Vipparthy GM and GE folks
14:59:43 zhipeng yo
14:59:55 zhipeng Vipparthy good day :)
15:00:05 zhipeng #startmeeting openstack-cyborg
15:00:06 openstack Meeting started Wed Jan 24 15:00:05 2018 UTC and is due to finish in 60 minutes. The chair is zhipeng. Information about MeetBot at http://wiki.debian.org/MeetBot.
15:00:07 openstack Useful Commands: #action #agreed #help #info #idea #link #topic #startvote.
15:00:10 openstack The meeting name has been set to 'openstack_cyborg'
15:00:24 zhipeng #topic Roll Call
15:00:41 crushil \o
15:00:48 zhipeng #info Howard
15:01:40 crushil #info Rushil
15:01:50 Li_Liu #info Li Liu
15:03:02 zhipeng let's wait for a few minutes for others to show up
15:05:59 zhipeng guys if you are here for the meeting
15:06:09 zhipeng please use #info to identify yourself
15:06:33 helloway #info helloway
15:06:55 Dutch #info Dutch
15:07:20 Amol #info amol
15:07:47 Vipparthy #info Vipparthy
15:07:59 zhipeng Amol which company are you from ?
15:09:51 Amol Hi Zhipeng . I am from nvxltech
15:10:16 zhipeng ah thx, same with Vipparthy right ?
15:10:25 Amol Yup
15:11:54 zhipeng cool :)
15:12:10 zhipeng Ok I see Intel folks flowing in, let's start the discussion
15:12:21 zhipeng #topic Queens Release Final Push
15:13:00 dolpher Hi
15:13:38 zhipeng #info Generic Driver
15:13:43 zhipeng #link https://review.openstack.org/525057
15:13:58 shaohe_feng_ hello all
15:14:01 zhipeng crushil have you look at the comments from shaohe_feng_ and others ?
15:15:06 crushil zhipeng, yup. I'm working on the patch rn. Will push a new patchset by this week
15:15:46 zhipeng I have to cut the release branch Monday next week, so the window is pretty tight :)
15:16:15 zhipeng I will need your workflow+1 during the weekend crushil :P
15:16:32 crushil Hmmm. Ok
15:16:43 crushil I will be online on the weekend
15:16:47 zhipeng This is the final frenzy kicks in
15:16:52 zhipeng gr8t thx :)
15:16:57 zhipeng okey moving on
15:17:07 zhipeng #info Intel FPGA driver
15:17:19 zhipeng #link https://review.openstack.org/531129
15:17:54 zhipeng Li_Liu has shaohe_feng_ addressed your comments ?
15:18:57 Li_Liu I havn't had the chance to look at the new patch yet
15:19:05 Li_Liu Doing it now
15:19:22 zhipeng okey
15:19:46 zhipeng shaohe_feng_ other than the comments you received, code-wise is your patch ready ?
15:19:52 Dutch I can also add some input to help keep things vendor neutral
15:20:05 zhipeng Dutch absolutely
15:20:39 shaohe_feng_ zhipeng: I have test it on our platform, it can works.
15:21:06 shaohe_feng_ zhipeng: but maybe we still need to introduce rootwraper
15:21:07 zhipeng okey then here are my suggestions:
15:21:27 zhipeng no rootwrapper for queens :)
15:21:33 zhipeng we need to discuss that in Dublin
15:21:47 zhipeng So here are my suggestions at the patch :
15:22:02 shaohe_feng_ the program need root for both intel and xilinx

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