[openib-general] PXE + infiniband?

[Cain, Brian (GE Healthcare)]

> -----Original Message-----
> From: openib-general-bounces at openib.org 
> [mailto:openib-general-bounces at openib.org] On Behalf Of Paul Baxter
> Sent: Thursday, September 07, 2006 2:29 AM
> To: openib-general at openib.org; Eli cohen
> Subject: Re: [openib-general] PXE + infiniband?
> 
> >> There is an implementation of PXE for Mellanox's HCAs that 
> can be found
> >> here: http://sourceforge.net/forum/forum.php?forum_id=494529
> >
> > Thanks for the tip
> >
> > I, too, am interested in this.
> >
> > Do you have a more direct link as I wandered around 
> etherboot's project 
> > site
> > and couldn't find anything IB-specific.
> 
> 
> I must have been having a 'special moment' before, because I 
> couldn't find 
> the mailing lists
> 
> Here they are!
> 
> http://sourceforge.net/search/?ml_name=etherboot-developers&ty
> pe_of_search=mlists&group_id=4233&words=infiniband 

I was able to follow the procedure outlined in Eli's README and I
achieved some mixed results.  On one hand, lspci now shows "Expansion
ROM at ed700000 [disabled] [size=1M]" whereas it didn't indicate that
before ("disabled" means it's zeroed out, maybe?).  The BIOS seems to
confirm the whole disabled thing since it doesn't list the HCA in the
boot priority list.

After making this change, IPoIB seems to work via this HCA, but SRP
(initiation, anyways) no longer does.  "ibsrpdm -c" no longer produces
any output, even though I can see the target via the ibnetdiscover.
Accessing the SRP target from another host on the fabric works fine.

-Brian