[ofa-general] Problems with mlx4

[Andrey Slepuhin]

Hi Roland,

I upgraded the switch FW to version 1.0 and applied your latest mlx4 
patches, but I'm still in the same situation - the link is down. What 
else can go wrong?

Thanks,
Andrey

Roland Dreier wrote:
>  > I just setup a test cluster using ConnectX cards, but I can not get
>  > link up.
>
> Most likely you need to update your switch FW.  You need Anafa2 FW
> version 1.0 to negotiate a DDR link with ConnectX.
>
> BTW what firmware version do you have on your HCAs?  You probably want
> to update to 2.0.156 (the mlx4 driver won't work with 2.0.158 for a
> day or two still) so that you don't have to monkey around with
> hard-coding your switch ports to DDR only.
>
>  - R.
>