[ofa-general] Loading of ib_mthca fails

[Xavier Andrade]

Hi Roland,

Thanks for your answer,

On Wed, 23 Apr 2008, Roland Dreier wrote:
>
> Strange, I'm not sure what's going on.  Some firmware commands are
> succeeding and then one fails with a status that the firmware should
> never return.
>
> Taking a wild guess about what might be affecting this, how much memory
> does your system have installed?
>

16 gigabytes.

> Can you make sure your kernel is built with CONFIG_INFINIBAND_MTHCA_DEBUG=y
> and then send the output of loading the driver with the debug_level
> module option set to 1?
>

This is the output with debug_level set to 1:

ib_mthca: Mellanox InfiniBand HCA driver v0.08 (February 14, 2006)
ib_mthca: Initializing 0000:04:00.0
ACPI: PCI Interrupt 0000:04:00.0[A] -> GSI 17 (level, low) -> IRQ 17
PCI: Setting latency timer of device 0000:04:00.0 to 64
ib_mthca 0000:04:00.0: FW version 000000000000, max commands 1
ib_mthca 0000:04:00.0: Catastrophic error buffer at 0x0, size 0x0
ib_mthca 0000:04:00.0: FW size 0 KB
ib_mthca 0000:04:00.0: Clear int @ 0, EQ arm @ 0, EQ set CI @ 0
Uhhuh. NMI received for unknown reason 31.
Do you have a strange power saving mode enabled?
Dazed and confused, but trying to continue
ib_mthca 0000:04:00.0: No HCA-attached memory (running in MemFree mode)
ib_mthca 0000:04:00.0: Mapped 0 chunks/0 KB for FW.
ib_mthca 0000:04:00.0: MAP_FA returned status 0xff, aborting.
ib_mthca 0000:04:00.0: Failed to start FW, aborting.
ACPI: PCI interrupt for device 0000:04:00.0 disabled
ib_mthca: probe of 0000:04:00.0 failed with error -22

There are some extra message because I enabled NMIs in the BIOS setup.

Does this mean that the adapter doesn't have a firmware?

Cheers,

Xavier