XRT Operating System Support - 2020.2 PU1 English

Xilinx Runtime (XRT) Release Notes (UG1451)

Document ID
UG1451
Release Date
2021-03-24
Version
2020.2 PU1 English
Operating System 1 Architecture Supported Versions
RHEL/CentOS x86_64 7.4
7.5
7.6
7.7
7.8
8.1
8.2
Ubuntu 2 x86_64 16.04.5 LTS
16.04.5 LTS
18.04.1 LTS
18.04.2 LTS
18.04.4 LTS 3
20.04 LTS
PetaLinux aarch64, cortexa9 2020.2
  1. All the supported Operating Systems are tested with general access versions (GA). Ubuntu Hardware Enhancement (HWE) is not supported.
  2. Ubuntu Live Patch Service might apply kernel patches automatically. XRT is not tested against live patches. It is recommended that you disable kernel auto upgrade to prevent incompatibility issues.
  3. Ubuntu 18.04.4 Desktop version enables HWE by default, but the server version does not.

    For version details, refer to the Ubuntu website.

  4. Kernel-headers package is required by XRT during installation. Since CentOS only provides kernel-headers package for some releases, XRT can only support the CentOS OS versions that provide kernel-headers packages.
  5. For details about Xilinx tested OS versions and their kernel versions, please visit https://www.xilinx.com/support/answers/76217.htm

Operating System End-of-Life Support Notification

Beginning in the 2021.1 release, XRT will no longer support RHEL/CentOS 7.4 and 7.5 due to the end of extended update support for these operating systems.

For more information, refer to the Redhat Lifecycle policy: https://access.redhat.com/support/policy/updates/errata/

Virtualization Support

XRT can be used in the KVM virtualization environment with all the operating systems listed above as the guest.