Intel QAT 8970 accel card on ARM Ampere Server

[Juraj Linkeš]

Hi Patrick,

This is good news. How does the server fare after the restart?

Juraj

On Fri, Sep 1, 2023 at 11:30 PM Patrick Robb <probb at iol.unh.edu> wrote:

> Thanks Juraj,
>
> I did bring the system to 22.04 based on our conversation from yesterday.
> From there and from checking out to the new current kernel
> (5.15.0-82-generic) yes the diffs cleanly apply, removing the x86
> dependency on the QAT kernel drivers, and then you can make the kernel,
> enabling the QAT driver. It looks like that all worked fine.
>
> I didn't actually install and reboot with the custom kernel today because
> I don't want to do that with a production server right before the weekend,
> particularly with USA having a holiday on Monday. I will reboot with the
> custom kernel on Tuesday morning though, and then hopefully the
> compress/crypto testsuites on QAT will be unblocked. Thanks, the guidance
> is greatly appreciated.
>
> Best,
> Patrick
>
>
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