Installation Process

Figure 1 Installation process

**Table 1** Operations
Operation	Reference
Installing hardware
Installing the DPU OS
Installing the DPU driver and firmware
Installing the host driver and firmware
Configuring the network and hugepage memory
Installing the programming framework's Devtools package	Installing the Devtools Package of the Programming Framework
Developing Hydra code for the user data plane	Data Plane Development Reference
Compiling the user firmware	Compiling the Firmware
Developing the user control plane software	Control Plane Development Reference
Installing the programming framework's runtime package	Installing the Runtime Package of the Programming Framework
Updating the user firmware	Updating the User Firmware
Installing the DPAK software package on the host
Installing service features

Parent topic: Environment Setup