[openib-general] FW upgrade for TopSpin cards

[Kanevsky, Arkady]

Roland,
sorry to bug you on that but...

I have a Cisco HCA (PCI-X)
hca_type	MTS23108
hw_rev	a1
fw_ver	1.18.0

hca_type and hw_rev are clearly Mellanox nomenclature.
I suspect that this is Cisco FW version #.

But all OpenIB documentation is with respect to Mellanox
nomenclature.
For example from http://www.openib.org/docs/ipoib_faq.txt

1. Verify the firmware version via

cat /sys/class/infiniband/mthca0/fw_ver

For PCI-X HCAs, version 3.2.0 is recommended. For PCIe HCAs, version 
4.5.3 is recommended.

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Is there analogous documentation for Cisco FW?
Where is that FW (this is Cougar card)?
Are Cisco FWs and Mellanox FW the same?
If yes what is the correspondance between the 2 numbering schemas.

While this specific question is for Cougar card,
the answer should be generic and cover all HCAs.

Can the documentation be updated to cover all supported HW
regardless of the vendor?

Thanks,

Arkady Kanevsky                       email: arkady at netapp.com
Network Appliance                     phone: 781-768-5395
375 Totten Pond Rd.                  Fax: 781-895-1195
Waltham, MA 02451-2010          central phone: 781-768-5300
 


> -----Original Message-----
> From: Roland Dreier [mailto:rolandd at cisco.com] 
> Sent: Thursday, October 20, 2005 1:48 PM
> To: Kanevsky, Arkady
> Cc: openib-general at openib.org
> Subject: Re: [openib-general] FW upgrade for TopSpin cards
> 
> 
>     Arkady> I get a bunch of warnings (see below).
> 
> All of the warnings look benign (although you might want to 
> synchronize the clock between your build system and your file server).
> 
>     Arkady> Can I use OpenIB tvflash to upgrade FW on a TopSpin card?
> 
> Yes.
> 
>     Arkady> Can I use OpenIB mstflint for it?
> 
> Yes.
> 
>     Arkady> Which version of the utilities should I use?
> 
> I would use the latest subversion revision.
> 
>     Arkady> Why warning when I build it?
> 
> Because gcc 4.0 added a bunch of semi-bogus pointer sign 
> warnings, and you clocks are out of synch.
> 
>  - R.
>