Preparing for the Installation

Environment Requirements

• The KAE function is enabled on the server (for example, a Kunpeng server).
  

  To use the accelerators in the non-virtualization scenario, you need to disable the SMMU. For details, see TaiShan Server BIOS Parameter Reference (Kunpeng 920 Processor).

• Kunpeng 920 series processors are used.
• The iBMC V365 or later is used.
• The BIOS V105 or later is used.
• One of the following OSs is used for KAE 1.0:
  • CentOS 7.6 4.14.0-115.el7a.0.1.aarch64 version
  • SUSE 15.1 4.12.14-195-default.aarch64 version
  • EulerOS 2.8 4.19.36-vhulk1907.1.0.h410.eulerosv2r8.aarch64 version
  • NeoKylin 7.6 4.14.0-115.5.1.el7a.06.aarch64 version
  • BCLinux-R7-U6-Server-aarch64 version
  • Kylin 4.0.2 (juniper) 4.15.0-70-generic version
  • Kylin release 4.0.2 (SP2) 4.19.36-vhulk1907.1.0.h403.ky4.aarch64 version
  • UniKylin Linux release 3(Core) 4.18.0-80.ky3.kb21.hw.aarch64 version
  • Ubuntu 18.04.1 LTS 4.15.0-29-generic version
  • openEuler 20.03 LTS 4.19.90-2003.4.0.0036.oe1.aarch64 version
  • openEuler 20.03 LTS-SP1 4.19.90-2012.4.0.0053.oe1.aarch64 version

• One of the following OSs is used for KAE 2.0:
  • openEuler 22.03 LTS SP1/SP2/SP3/SP4
  • EulerOS V2.0 SP12
  • TencentOS 4.19.119
• An SSH remote login tool has been installed on the local PC.
• The root account is used for KAE installation.
• Both root and non-root accounts can run KAE.

Obtaining a License

The hardware acceleration engine of Kunpeng K series servers is enabled by default. You do not need to apply for a license.

1. For details about how to apply for and install a license, see Huawei Server iBMC License User Guide.
2. After installing a license, run the lspci command to check whether the OS has an accelerator.
   

   The accelerator description queried by running the lspci command varies depending on the OS. In addition to filtering by keywords, you can also check whether the following accelerator SBDF information exists.

   Check whether the ZIP compression acceleration engine exists in the system.

   1	lspci | grep ZIP

   If the following information is displayed, the ZIP engine exists in the system.

   1 2	75:00.0 Processing accelerators: Huawei Technologies Co., Ltd. HiSilicon ZIP Engine (rev 21) b5:00.0 Processing accelerators: Huawei Technologies Co., Ltd. HiSilicon ZIP Engine (rev 21)

   If no command output is displayed, no KAE accelerator device exists in the OS. Check whether the license is successfully installed.