[openib-general] HCA Firmware

[Hal Rosenstock]

Hi Bernhard,

On Thu, 2005-05-05 at 16:24, Bernhard Fischer wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> I may have not searched in the proper places, so may miss the obvious
> "standard" sink of vendors for firmware..
> 
> Still, where can i get current, 'blessed' (fwiw) firmware for infiniband
> HCA's?
> 
> PS:
> On hardware manufactured by an unnamed, recently sold vendor,

You need to get it from the HCA vendor.

>  i get:
> 
> Mellanox Tavor Device Driver is creating device "InfiniHost0" (bus=0a,
> devfn=00)
> 
>  THH(1): TAVOR_IF_CMD_STAT_BAD_OP - Operation/command not supported or
> opcode modifier not supported
>  THH(1): infiniband/hw/mellanox-hca/thh/thh_hob.c[3793]: THH_hob_create:
> CMD_error in THH_cmd_SYS_EN (2)
>  THH(1): infiniband/hw/mellanox-hca/thh/thh_mod_obj.c[292]: Failed
> creating THH_hob for InfiniHost0
>  THH(1): THH_init_hh_all_tavor: For all 1 Tavor devices initialization
> was not successful
>  THH(1): infiniband/hw/mellanox-hca/thh/thh_mod_obj.c[329]: Failed
> initialization of all available InfiniHost devices
> 
> where current firmware is:
> # cat /proc/infiniband/core/ca1/info
> name:          mthca
> provider:      mthca
> node GUID:     0005:ad00:0002:312c
> ports:         2
> vendor ID:     0x5ad
> device ID:     0x5a44
> HW revision:   0x0
> FW revision:   0x300020000

That looks like 3.2.0. The latest is 3.3.2. I don't recall if there 
are issues running with 3.2.0 or not. 3.2.0 or later is recommended 
in the IPoIB FAQ but I'm not sure this is sufficient anymore.

> which let's me suspect that that revision needs upgrading, no?
> Thanks in advance for any hint in this respect.

-- Hal