[ofa-general] Ethernet emulation on ConnectX card

[Celine Bourde]

I've a ConnectX card and I would like to test Ethernet emulation on both 
IB ports.
Is there any documentation on it ?
Should I modify the firmware .ini file to  activate the functionality ?

Any idea to proceed  ?

Thanks.

Current configuration :

# ibv_devinfo
hca_id:    mlx4_0
    fw_ver:                2.6.000
    node_guid:            0002:c903:0000:2070
    sys_image_guid:            0002:c903:0000:2073
    vendor_id:            0x02c9
    vendor_part_id:            25418
    hw_ver:                0xA0
    board_id:            MT_04A0110002
    phys_port_cnt:            2
        port:    1
            state:            PORT_ACTIVE (4)
            max_mtu:        2048 (4)
            active_mtu:        2048 (4)
            sm_lid:            1
            port_lid:        1
            port_lmc:        0x00

        port:    2
            state:            PORT_INIT (2)
            max_mtu:        2048 (4)
            active_mtu:        2048 (4)
            sm_lid:            0
            port_lid:        0
            port_lmc:        0x00

Tziporet Koren wrote:
> People requested that I will notify on the new ConnectX FW release
> (2.6.0_
>
> URL of firmware downloads homepage:
> http://www.mellanox.com/content/pages.php?pg=firmware_download
> Main changes and new features in this release include:
> - Support at GA-level for VPI
> - Support for QDR interoperability with InfiniScale IV switch platforms
> For the full list of features and other details, please see the Release
> Notes on the firmware page.
>
> Note: The following OFED 1.4 features can be activated only with FW
> 2.6.0:
> - Use the same device as one port IB and one port Eth.
> - Fast register MR send queue work requests.
> - Local DMA L_Key.
> - Raw Ethertype QP support (one QP per port) -- receive only.
>
> Tziporet 
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