I received my Metis M.2 card yesterday and tried it out on Windows 11 on an ACEMAGIC F3A AMD Ryzen AI 9 HX 370 Mini PC using the instructions in https://docs.axelera.ai/sdk/user-guides/windows-setup/. I had some troubles with the WSL part of the setup so I decided to skip that, and got to step 5 with the driver properly installed in device manager and the Axelera Windows packages installed. The axrunmodel sample returns the following output:
[libaxldev.c:419] Firmware load address 0xffffffffffffffff exceeds 32-bit address space on Metis. WARNING:axelera.runtime:Failed to load runtime stage0: C:\AxeleraDevice-1.7.0\opt\axelera\device\omega\bin\start_axelera_runtime_stage0.bin [AxeleraDevice.cpp:455] Failed to get board DDR size. WARNING:axelera.runtime:Failed to get SW throttling from device metis-0:0:0 WARNING:axelera.runtime:Failed to get HW throttling from device metis-0:0:0 WARNING:axelera.runtime:Failed to get freq downscaling from device metis-0:0:0 [utils.c:264] sysctl_get_datastream_area: bad magic 0xffff (expected 0xf0f0) ERROR:axelera.runtime:Invalid log source: sysctrl C:\users\nicov\Code\voyager-sdk\build\resnet50-imagenet-onnx\resnet50-imagenet-onnx\1\model.json,FAIL: AXR_ERROR_INVALID_ARGUMENT: Invalid log source: sysctrl
I also tried to get some info about the hardware:
axdevice -v INFO: Found PCI device: Instance ID: PCI\VEN_1F9D&DEV_1100&SUBSYS_11001F9D&REV_00\4&c1676ec&0&0011 Device Description: Metis Device Class Name: ComputeAccelerator Class GUID: {f01a9d53-3ff6-48d2-9f97-c8a7004be10c} Manufacturer Name: Axelera AI B.V. Status: Started Driver Name: oem27.inf INFO: Found AIPU driver: oem27.inf INFO: Current firmware version \xff\xff\xff\xff\xff\xff\xff\xff\xff\xff\xff\xff\xff\xff\xff\xff\xff\xff\xff\xff\xff\xff\xff\xff\xff\xff\xff\xff\xff\xff\xff\xff\xff\xff\xff\xff\xff\xff\xff\xff\xff\xff\xff\xff\xff\xff\xff\xff\xff\xff\xff\xff\xff\xff\xff\xff\xff\xff\xff\xff\xff\xff\xff\xff\xff\xff\xff\xff\xff\xff\xff\xff\xff\xff\xff\xff\xff\xff\xff\xff\xff\xff\xff\xff\xff\xff\xff\xff\xff\xff\xff\xff\xff\xff\xff\xff\xff\xff\xff\xff\xff\xff\xff\xff\xff\xff\xff\xff\xff\xff\xff\xff\xff\xff\xff\xff\xff\xff\xff\xff\xff\xff\xff\xff\xff\xff\xff\xff\xff\xff\xff\xff\xff\xff\xff\xff\xff\xff\xff\xff\xff\xff\xff\xff\xff\xff\xff\xff\xff\xff\xff\xff\xff\xff\xff\xff\xff\xff\xff\xff\xff\xff\xff\xff\xff\xff\xff\xff\xff\xff\xff\xff\xff\xff\xff\xff\xff\xff\xff\xff\xff\xff\xff\xff\xff\xff\xff\xff\xff\xff\xff\xff\xff\xff\xff\xff\xff\xff\xff\xff\xff\xff\xff\xff\xff\xff\xff\xff\xff\xff\xff\xff\xff\xff\xff\xff\xff\xff\xff\xff\xff\xff\xff\xff\xff\xff\xff\xff\xff\xff\xff\xff\xff\xff\xff\xff\xff\xff\xff\xff\xff\xff\xff\xff\xff\xff\xff\xff\xff\xff\xff\xff\xff\xff\xff != required version v1.7.0 INFO: Device firmware version is not compatible, loading now [libaxldev.c:419] Firmware load address 0xffffffffffffffff exceeds 32-bit address space on Metis.
Somehow it seems it does not have any firmware loaded?
Maybe there is some BIOS incompatibility, after shutdown I couldn't restart the computer again, and after removing the M.2 Metis card it booted properly again.
The machine also seemed rather slow with the M.2 card installed.
Any ideas on how to proceed? I could try installing Linux, but the boot issue seems like there is something else in play. Unfortunately I don't have a spare system with a free M.2 slot to try it in a different hardware config.
I am just using Windows for testing purposes, ultimately I want to run it (if my evaluation (and corresponding software development) works out well) on an SBC like an RK3588 board or so.
