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System Freezes while running inference on Metis M.2

  • April 4, 2026
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I am using Radxa Rock 5B (RK3588, 8GB RAM) board along with Metis M.2 accelerator. I have successfully done the initial troubleshooting for the RK3588 during installation (memory expansion in dts, etc.) and installed the driver. However, the Metis board is not working as expected. 

The board is detected during lspci scan:

reck@reck:~$ lspci
0000:00:00.0 PCI bridge: Rockchip Electronics Co., Ltd RK3588 (rev 01)
0000:01:00.0 Processing accelerators: Axelera AI Metis AIPU (rev 02)
0002:20:00.0 PCI bridge: Rockchip Electronics Co., Ltd RK3588 (rev 01)
0002:21:00.0 Network controller: Realtek Semiconductor Co., Ltd. RTL8852BE PCIe 802.11ax Wireless Network Controller
0004:40:00.0 PCI bridge: Rockchip Electronics Co., Ltd RK3588 (rev 01)
0004:41:00.0 Ethernet controller: Realtek Semiconductor Co., Ltd. RTL8125 2.5GbE Controller (rev 05)
reck@reck:~$ lspci -s 0000:01:00.0 -vv 
0000:01:00.0 Processing accelerators: Axelera AI Metis AIPU (rev 02)
Subsystem: Axelera AI Metis AIPU (rev 02)
Control: I/O- Mem+ BusMaster+ SpecCycle- MemWINV- VGASnoop- ParErr- Stepping- SERR- FastB2B- DisINTx+
Status: Cap+ 66MHz- UDF- FastB2B- ParErr- DEVSEL=fast >TAbort- <TAbort- <MAbort- >SERR- <PERR- INTx-
Latency: 0
Interrupt: pin A routed to IRQ 211
Region 0: Memory at f5010000 (64-bit, non-prefetchable) [size=4K]
Region 2: Memory at f6000000 (32-bit, non-prefetchable) [size=32M]
Expansion ROM at f5000000 [virtual] [disabled] [size=64K]
Capabilities: <access denied>
Kernel driver in use: axl
Kernel modules: metis


However, running axdevice or example inference causes a completely unrecoverable system freeze. Running triton_multi_ctx --fwver command results in bus error.

(venv) reck@reck:~/project/axl/voyager-sdk$ triton_multi_ctx --fwver
Bus error

 

(venv) reck@reck:~/project/axl/voyager-sdk$ triton_dma
Found 1 devices
Device : metis-0:1:0
Bus error


How should I fix this? Please help me run this.