[openib-general] HP ZX1 and HP IB cards...

[Grant Grundler]

On Wed, Nov 24, 2004 at 09:16:24PM +0200, Michael S. Tsirkin wrote:
> > 0000:41:00.0 InfiniBand: Mellanox Technology MT23108 InfiniHost (rev a1)
> >         Subsystem: Mellanox Technology MT23108 InfiniHost
> >         Flags: 66MHz, medium devsel, IRQ 66
> >         Memory at 00000000a0800000 (64-bit, non-prefetchable) [size=1M]
> >         Memory at 00000000a0000000 (64-bit, prefetchable) [size=8M]
> >         Memory at <unassigned> (64-bit, prefetchable)

<unassigned> is the problem.

> > System Firmware is having problems with this card.

yeah - turned out to be a firmware bug...not clear the firmware
team will fix it but they are at least aware of it.

We are also considering adding 64-bit MMIO (aka GMMIO) support
to ia64-linux. We just learned that some boxes don't assign GMMIO.

> If you think its a flash issue, try flashing with flint
> (mstflint under openib tree works without kernel modules). this is what we
> always use in mellanox for cougars.

I'm certain this is not a flash issue.
There might be issues with flash but not this one.

thanks though,
grant