Chipyard doesn't natively support arm64, so you'll have to run the container under emulation. I've tested this on a raspberry pi 4 and although it works, it was painfully slow. I'd really appreciate it if someone with an M1/M2 Mac tries this setup and can get back to me on the discussions or the issues page.
Before installing Docker Desktop ensure that you have Rosetta 2 installed, in a terminal window run:
$ softwareupdate --install-rosettaFollow instructions provided here and enable Use Virtualization Framework and Use Rosetta for x86/AMD64 emulation on Apple Silicon.
If you're on a raspberry pi or a similar low power computer, be warned that it's painfully slow.
After you've got docker installed on your machine, you can install an x86-64/amd64 emulator for it by using another docker image:
$ docker run --privileged --rm tonistiigi/binfmt --install amd64Why? Yea that's it, I've got nothing for you. Sorry.
In a terminal window try running a smaller image to check if your setup can run emulated amd64 containers:
$ docker run --rm --platform=linux/amd64 amd64/alpine uname -aYou should see get an output without errors that looks something like this:
Linux 382db92acfdc 6.1.0-rpi8-rpi-v8 #1 SMP PREEMPT Debian 1:6.1.73-1+rpt1 (2024-01-25) x86_64 LinuxThis important part to note here is the last bit that states that the container is x86_64 Linux. If you get errors try rebooting and running through the above setps for your platform again. Feel free to open an issue / discussion in case things still don't work out.
If everything looks good, congrats! You can go back to the readme and follow the general usage instructions. Just don't try building the image locally, you're much better off pulling the pre-built image.