X4 Series Support and Downloads - Latest Version

AMD Solarflare™ network drivers are available here. AMD recommends that you install and use the latest released version of the network driver.

Note: Linux (and Linux based OS distributions) already include a version of the AMD Solarflare network driver. This is known as the OS ‘in-tree’ driver. The in-tree driver supports normal networking operation but does not support more advanced or recent features available with the latest drivers.

AMD Solarflare™ firmware and utilities are available here. AMD recommends that you install and use the latest released version of firmware.

The AMD Solarflare™ Enhanced PTP Daemon is an implementation of the IEEE 1588‑2008 Precision Time Protocol version 2. It enables high accuracy synchronization of system clocks across a network. It supports multiple time sources such as remote master PTP clocks, 1PPS signals, external NTP servers, and the clock in a supported local network adapter. By default, it automatically selects the best performing of these time sources, but this behavior is highly configurable to suit requirements.

For more information refer to the Enhanced PTP User Guide.

The AMD Solarflare™ SolarCapture™ Software Development Kit is a free library for developers who want to implement efficient fast packet processing of network traffic, at high packet rates, in a Linux user mode application.

For more information refer to the SolarCapture User Guide.

Currently, there are no plans for further product releases of SolarCapture.  Instead, we have recently open-sourced the SolarCapture code. This is not a formally tested version but has been updated to use Python 3.