feat(oran_fhlib_5g): Arm support information in documentation

Inform in O-RAN 7.2 documentation that DU execution on Arm is yet not fully supported and that 7.2 on Arm is only intended to enable experiments.
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Romain Beurdouche
2025-04-04 13:26:01 +00:00
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@@ -32,6 +32,8 @@ The hardware on which we have tried this tutorial:
- The NIC card should support hardware PTP time stamping.
- If you are using Intel servers then use only Ice Lake or newer generations. In case of AMD use only 4th generation, Genoa or newer.
- If you try on any other server apart from the above listed, then choose a desktop/server with clock speed higher than 3.0 GHz and `avx512` capabilities.
- This tutorial gives few instructions for Arm targets, but DU execution on Arm systems is yet not functional.
This feature is intended to enable experiments and future improvements on Arm systems.
NICs we have tested so far:
@@ -405,6 +407,8 @@ Compile the fronthaul interface library by calling `make` and the option
environment variables `RTE_SDK` for the path to the source tree of DPDK, and
`XRAN_DIR` to set the path to the fronthaul library.
For building for a Arm target, set as well the environment variable `TARGET=armv8`.
DU execution on Arm systems is yet not functional.
This feature is intended to enable experiments and future improvements on Arm systems.
**Note**: you need at least gcc-11 and g++-11.
@@ -423,6 +427,9 @@ before proceeding.
## For Arm targets only: Install the Arm RAN Acceleration library
DU execution on Arm systems is yet not functional.
This feature is intended to enable experiments and future improvements on Arm systems.
Clone, configure and build ArmRAL:
Note: Use option `-DCMAKE_INSTALL_PREFIX=<install-dir>` of cmake to set the installation directory of ArmRAL to `<install-dir>`.