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Contributing to XRT

Welcome to XRT! You can contribute to XRT in a variety of ways. You can report bugs and feature requests using GitHub Issues. You can send patches which add new features to XRT or fix bugs in XRT. You can also send patches to update XRT documentation.

Reporting Issues

When reporting issues on GitHub please include the following:

  1. XRT version including git hash
  2. Alveo platform name and version
  3. Output of xbutil query
  4. Output of xbmgmt scan
  5. dmesg
  6. gdb stack trace of host application
  7. Contents of xrt.ini (if used)

Contributing Code

Please use GitHub Pull Requests (PR) for sending code contributions. When sending code sign your work as described below. Be sure to use the same license for your contributions as the current license of the XRT component you are contributing to.

Sign Your Work

Please use the Signed-off-by line at the end of your patch which indicates that you accept the Developer Certificate of Origin (DCO) defined by https://developercertificate.org/ reproduced below:

Developer Certificate of Origin
Version 1.1

Copyright (C) 2004, 2006 The Linux Foundation and its contributors.
1 Letterman Drive
Suite D4700
San Francisco, CA, 94129

Everyone is permitted to copy and distribute verbatim copies of this
license document, but changing it is not allowed.


Developer's Certificate of Origin 1.1

By making a contribution to this project, I certify that:

(a) The contribution was created in whole or in part by me and I
    have the right to submit it under the open-source license
    indicated in the file; or

(b) The contribution is based upon previous work that, to the best
    of my knowledge, is covered under an appropriate open-source
    license and I have the right under that license to submit that
    work with modifications, whether created in whole or in part
    by me, under the same open-source license (unless I am
    permitted to submit under a different license), as indicated
    in the file; or

(c) The contribution was provided directly to me by some other
    person who certified (a), (b) or (c) and I have not modified
    it.

(d) I understand and agree that this project and the contribution
    are public and that a record of the contribution (including all
    personal information I submit with it, including my sign-off) is
    maintained indefinitely and may be redistributed consistent with
    this project or the open source license(s) involved.

Here is an example Signed-off-by line which indicates that the contributor accepts DCO:

This is my commit message

Signed-off-by: Jane Doe <jane.doe@example.com>

Code License

All XRT code is licensed under the terms LICENSE Your contribution will be accepted under the same license.

Please consult the table below for the brief summary of XRT license for various components.

Component License
Linux xocl driver GPLv2
Linux xclmgmt driver GPLv2
Linux zocl driver Dual GPLv2 and Apache 2.0
User space Apache 2.0