XRT Operating System Support - 2021.1 English

Xilinx Runtime (XRT) Release Notes (UG1451)

Document ID
UG1451
Release Date
2021-06-24
Version
2021.1 English
Operating System 1 Architecture Version
RHEL/CentOS x86_64 7.6, 7.7, 7.8
8.1, 8.2
RHEL x86_64 8.3
Ubuntu 2 x86_64 16.04.5 LTS, 16.04.6 LTS
18.04.1 LTS, 18.04.2 LTS, 18.04.4 LTS 3 , 18.04.5 LTS
20.04 LTS, 20.04.1 LTS
PetaLinux aarch64, cortexa9 2021.1
  1. All supported Operating Systems are tested with general access versions (GA). Ubuntu Hardware Enablement (HWE) is not supported.
  2. Ubuntu Live Patch Service might apply kernel patches automatically. XRT is not tested against live patches. To prevent compatibility issues, turn off kernel auto-upgrade.
  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.

Note: During installation, the kernel-headers package is required. CentOS only provides the kernel-headers package for some releases. XRT only supports CentOS OS versions that provide kernel-headers packages.
Note: For details about Xilinx tested OS versions tested by Xilinx and their kernel versions, see Xilinx Answer Record 76567.

Virtualization Support

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

Operating System End-of-Life Support Notification

Due to the end of support from OS vendors, XRT 2021.2 will end support for the following versions.

Table 1. Last Supported Versions
Operating System Version
RHEL/CentOS 7.6, 7.7
Ubuntu 16.04.5 LTS, 16.04.6 LTS
18.04.1 LTS, 18.04.2 LTS, 18.04.3 LTS