[openib-general] Updating firmware

James Lentini jlentini at netapp.com
Fri Sep 30 10:42:49 PDT 2005


On Fri, 30 Sep 2005, Hal Rosenstock wrote:

> Hi Sean,
> 
> On Fri, 2005-09-30 at 13:14, Sean Hubbell wrote:
> >   What is the best way to update the firmware on the HCA card and the 
> > Infiniband switches? 
> 
> Switch update of firmware is not supported by OpenIB. This is specific
> to the vendor switch.
> 
> > Is this  mstflint or tvflash?
> 
> For the HCA, mstflint is officially supported; tvlash isn't. Which you
> use may also be a matter of preference.

The Wiki's Installation Cheat Sheet has an overview of how to flash a 
Mellanox HCA:

https://openib.org/tiki/tiki-index.php?page=Installation+Cheat+Sheet



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