[openib-general] FW: Mstflint - not working on ppc64 andwhendriver is notloaded on AMD

[Moshe Kazir]

Michael,

> Not sure what's miss match FWR, but if you can't boot
> the need to specify /proc/bus/pci/ is going to be the least of your
problems.

Are you sure that we will never face a situation were mthca driver is
not loaded and we need to burn a new HCA FWR  ?

What we expect the user to do in this case ?
Send the HCA to Mellanox ?

>
> Please understand, I'd like people to start using mthca0 for device
name rather than defaulting to lspci as the first resort.

I think that having " mstflint -d mthca0 ... " is really good  and user
friendly.

BUT please notice that , 
Plenty of the mstflint uses are done when a customer  buy / install new
IB lab equipment. New users that does not know IB yet knows lspci . 

Lspci is easy to find info and very convenient for scripts writing.

So , Can you explain what's wrong with " mstflint -d <lspci info> .."
and why you don't want user to use it ?

Moshe 

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-----Original Message-----
From: Michael S. Tsirkin [mailto:mst at mellanox.co.il] 
Sent: Tuesday, October 03, 2006 9:45 AM
To: Moshe Kazir
Cc: Tseng-Hui (Frank) Lin; openfabrics-ewg at openib.org;
openib-general at openib.org
Subject: Re: FW: Mstflint - not working on ppc64 andwhendriver is
notloaded on AMD


Quoting r. Moshe Kazir <moshek at voltaire.com>:
> A work-around that enable the use of mstflint only when the driver is 
> loaded is not sufficient

I think I somewhat understand the mmap related kernel bug thing,
(although I'd like to see this discussed on lkml) but I still don't
understand where the "driver is loaded" thing comes from, and I'd like
to.

> What you plan to do when you have system error ->
> - boot fail when IB started,
> - driver loading fail as result of driver error / miss match FWR, etc.

Not sure what's miss match FWR, but if you can't boot
the need to specify /proc/bus/pci/ is going to be the least of your
problems.

Please understand, I'd like people to start using mthca0 for device name
rather than defaulting to lspci as the first resort.

-- 
MST