[openib-general] Re: [mstflint] firmware upgrade instructions

James Lentini jlentini at netapp.com
Tue Sep 6 09:55:40 PDT 2005



On Tue, 6 Sep 2005, Michael S. Tsirkin wrote:

> For mellanox cards you can usually figure that our by the board id,
> which is reported by running "mstflint -d <device> q"
> or by looking at board id in /sys/class/infiniband/mthcaX/board_id

What if my board ID doesn't match any of the *.brd file names?

# cat /sys/class/infiniband/mthca0/board_id  
MT_0030000001

# ./mstflint -d `lspci -d 15b3:5a44 | cut -f 1 -d ' '` q 
Image type: FailSafe
Chip rev.:  A1
GUID Des:   Node             Port1            Port2            Sys 
image
GUIDs:      0002c90200003098 0002c90200003099 0002c9020000309a 
0002c9020000309b 
Board ID:    (MT_0030000001)

> ls -1 fw-23108-rel-3_3_3/*.brd
fw-23108-rel-3_3_3/MHX-CE128-T.brd
fw-23108-rel-3_3_3/MHX-CE256-T.brd
fw-23108-rel-3_3_3/MHX-CE512-T.brd
fw-23108-rel-3_3_3/MHXL-CF128-T.brd
fw-23108-rel-3_3_3/MHXL-CF256-T.brd
fw-23108-rel-3_3_3/MTLP23108_jaguar.brd

I know that it is a MHXL-CF128-T though. Is it safe to upgrade with 
that board file?



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