[openib-general] Updating firmware

[Sean Hubbell]

James Lentini wrote:

>On Fri, 30 Sep 2005, Sean Hubbell wrote:
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>>James Lentini wrote:
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>>>On Fri, 30 Sep 2005, Hal Rosenstock wrote:
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>>>>Hi Sean,
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>>>>On Fri, 2005-09-30 at 13:14, Sean Hubbell wrote:
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>>>>> What is the best way to update the firmware on the HCA card and the
>>>>>Infiniband switches?      
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>>>>Switch update of firmware is not supported by OpenIB. This is specific
>>>>to the vendor switch.
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>>>>>Is this  mstflint or tvflash?
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>>>>For the HCA, mstflint is officially supported; tvlash isn't. Which you
>>>>use may also be a matter of preference.
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>>>The Wiki's Installation Cheat Sheet has an overview of how to flash a
>>>Mellanox HCA:
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>>>https://openib.org/tiki/tiki-index.php?page=Installation+Cheat+Sheet
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>>Great, but mstflint does not compile on my system. Would you like me to fix
>>this (using the same autogen.sh and configure like files)?
>>Or is this for a specific reason?
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>Michael S. Tsirkin, mst at mellanox.co.il, is the maintainer of the 
>mstflint tool. I believe Michael lives in Israel, so he may not see 
>your message until Sunday. 
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>Bug reports/patches would be appreciated, but Michael would be the one 
>to review them.
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>FYI: The procedure for submitting patches is outlined in the OpenIB 
>FAQ:
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>https://openib.org/tiki/tiki-index.php?page=OpenIBFAQ
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>In addition to openib-general, I'd suggest including Michael in the to 
>field.
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Michael,

Would you like me to add autogen.sh and configure scripts to build 
mstflint? The reason is that to compile this on my system (Dell 
PowerEdge 2850 (2) 3.2 GHz running cAos 2.0 (with Patches) is not 
resolving some of the require include paths.

Sean