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The smartnic firmware build depends on docker and the docker compose plugin.
Install Docker on your system following the instructions found here for the linux variant that you are using
Ensure that you follow the post-install instructions here so that you can run docker without sudo
Verify your docker setup by running this as an ordinary (non-root) user without using sudo
docker run hello-world
The docker-compose.yml file for the smartnic build and the sn-stack depends on features that are only supported in the compose v2 plugin.
NOTE: The existing docker-compose-plugin package from your OS distribution may already be newer than the version stated below. It is generally OK to use a newer version from your package manager if available rather than overriding the plugin in your user directory.
Install the docker compose plugin like this for a single user:
mkdir -p ~/.docker/cli-plugins/
curl -SL https://github.com/docker/compose/releases/download/v2.20.2/docker-compose-linux-x86_64 -o ~/.docker/cli-plugins/docker-compose
chmod +x ~/.docker/cli-plugins/docker-compose
Alternatively, you can install the docker compose plugin system-wide like this:
sudo mkdir -p /usr/local/lib/docker/cli-plugins
sudo curl -o /usr/local/lib/docker/cli-plugins/docker-compose -SL https://github.com/docker/compose/releases/download/v2.20.2/docker-compose-linux-x86_64
sudo chmod +x /usr/local/lib/docker/cli-plugins/docker-compose
Verify your docker compose installation by running this as an ordinary (non-root) user without using sudo. For this install, the version output should be
$ docker compose version
Docker Compose version v2.20.2
Ensure that all submodules have been pulled.
git submodule init
git submodule update
The firmware build depends on the result of a smartnic hardware (FPGA) build. This file must be available prior to invoking the firmware build.
This file will be called artifacts.<board>.<app_name>.0.zip and should be placed in the sn-hw directory in your source tree before starting the firmware build.
This docker image can be built locally by cloning the https://github.com/esnet/smartnic-dpdk-docker.git repo and following the README instructions. Alternatively, this image can be retrieved from a remote registry by setting the SMARTNIC_DPDK_IMAGE_URI variable in the .env file (see below).
This docker image can be built locally by cloning the https://github.com/esnet/xilinx-labtools-docker.git repo and following the README instructions. Alternatively, this image can be retrieved from a remote registry by setting the LABTOOLS_IMAGE_URI variable in the .env file (see below).
The .env file tells the build about its inputs and outputs.
There is an example.env file in top level directory of this repo that will provide documentation and examples for the values you need to set.
cd $(git rev-parse --show-toplevel)
cp example.env .env
Since the values in the .env file are used to locate the correct hardware artifact, you will need to (at least) set these values in the .env file to match the exact naming of the .zip file you installed in the previous step:
SN_HW_BOARD=<board>
SN_HW_APP_NAME=<app_name>
SN_HW_VER=0
The firmware build creates a docker container with everything needed to interact with your FPGA image. Without any parameters, the newly built firmware container will be named/tagged esnet-smartnic-fw:${USER}-dev and will be available only on the local system.
cd $(git rev-parse --show-toplevel)
./build.sh
Optionally you can use any alternative name by specifying the full container URI as an optional parameter to the build script like this. Using a fully specified URI here can be useful if you are planning to push the newly built container to a remote docker registry.
./build.sh wharf.es.net/ht/esnet-smartnic-fw:${USER}-dev
The build script also automatically customizes the sn-stack/.env file to refer exactly to the firmware image that you just built.
The entire sn-stack directory will need to be transferred to the runtime system.
cd $(git rev-parse --show-toplevel)
zip -r artifacts.esnet-smartnic-fw.package.0.zip sn-stack