[openib-general] Re: Flashing Mellanox MT23108

Michael S. Tsirkin mst at mellanox.co.il
Thu Apr 7 11:55:32 PDT 2005


Quoting r. Jerome Pioux <Jerome.Pioux at bull.com>:
> Subject: Re: Flashing Mellanox MT23108
> 
> Hi Roland,
>  
> I don't know about mstflint but I used flint in the past from IBGD so it may be
> the same?
> With flint, you need to use the raw image (bin) and not the Mellanox one (mlx).
> This is what I used:
>  
> flint -d /dev/mst/mt23108_pci_cr2 -i /etc/ibfw/fw/fw-cougar-a1-3.3.2-jerome.bin
> b
> Image type: FailSafe
> Chip rev.:  A1
> GUIDs:      0005ad0000016770 0005ad0000016771 0005ad0000016772 0005ad000100d050
> Board ID:  ­
>  
>     Burn image with the following GUIDs:
>         Node:      0005ad0000016770
>         Port1:     0005ad0000016771
>         Port2:     0005ad0000016772
>         Sys.Image: 0005ad000100d050
> etc...
>  
> I think that I created the bin image using infiniburn.
> I read fw-23108-a1-rel.mlx using infiniburn and write the bin image (raw
> format).
> But if you have infiniburn working, I think that you can burn the mlx image
> directly.
>  
> Jerome
>  
>  
> ----- Original Message -----
> 
>     From: Roland Fehrenbacher
>     To: openib-general at openib.org
>     Sent: Thursday, April 07, 2005 5:38 AM
>     Subject: [openib-general] Flashing Mellanox MT23108
>    
>     Hi,
>    
>     can anyone tell me how to flash a Mellanox MT23108 card with
>     mstflint. When I try the firmware file fw-23108-a1-rel.mlx from
>     Mellanox I get
>    
>     $ mstflint -d /proc/bus/pci/03/00.0 -i fw-23108-a1-rel.mlx b
>     Not a valid image
>    
>     Roland
>    

With mstflint you pass in the device location: -d 03:00.0
Otherwise its the same.

-- 
MST - Michael S. Tsirkin



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