[openib-general] HCA Firmware

[Grant Grundler]

On Thu, May 05, 2005 at 10:24:47PM +0200, Bernhard Fischer wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> I may have not searched in the proper places, so may miss the obvious
> "standard" sink of vendors for firmware..

There isn't one. I've been griping about this for a while.
But none of the vendors wants to even risk the possibility
they might be supporting someone else's cards.

> Still, where can i get current, 'blessed' (fwiw) firmware for infiniband
> HCA's?

At your own risk, you can try:
	http://www.mellanox.com/products/firmware.html

> where current firmware is:
> # cat /proc/infiniband/core/ca1/info

AFAIK, gen2 stack doesn't support /proc .

> HW revision:   0x0
> FW revision:   0x300020000

> which let's me suspect that that revision needs upgrading, no?

Yes...that's either 3.0.2 or 3.2.0 (I forgot).

grundler at gsyprf3:~$ ls -F /sys/class/infiniband/mthca0/
device@  fw_ver    hw_rev     node_type  sys_image_guid
driver@  hca_type  node_guid  ports/
grundler at gsyprf3:~$ cat /sys/class/infiniband/mthca0/*
cat: /sys/class/infiniband/mthca0/device: Is a directory
cat: /sys/class/infiniband/mthca0/driver: Is a directory
3.3.2
MT23108
a1
0002:c902:0000:03fc
1: CA
cat: /sys/class/infiniband/mthca0/ports: Is a directory
0005:ad00:0100:d050

hth,
grant