FPGA Support In Red Hat Enterprise Linux

Solution Verified - Updated -

Environment

  • Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7.x

Issue

  • Does Red Hat Enterprise Linux support FPGA devices?

Resolution

The genwqe-tools package allows users of IBM Power and s390x hardware to utilize FPGA based PCIe cards for zLib compression and decompression processes. But that does not include support for reprogramming the FPGA.

Red Hat Enterprise Linux does not currently support fully reprogrammable FPGA devices.

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