[Users] Firmware upgrade appears to have broken driver

[Orion Poplawski]

On 04/29/2013 03:35 PM, Orion Poplawski wrote:
> Unfortunately it seems I paid too much attention to this message:
>
> ib_mthca 0000:01:00.0: HCA FW version 4.7.400 is old (4.8.200 is current).
> ib_mthca 0000:01:00.0: If you have problems, try updating your HCA FW.
>
> So I updated my MHGA28-1TC A1s firmware with:
>
> mstflint -d 01:00.0 -i fw-25208-4_8_200-MHGA28-1TC_A1-A3.bin -nofs burn
>
> Now the driver fails to load with:
>
> ib_mthca: Mellanox InfiniBand HCA driver v1.0 (April 4, 2008)
> ib_mthca: Initializing 0000:01:00.0
>    alloc irq_desc for 18 on node -1
>    alloc kstat_irqs on node -1
> ib_mthca 0000:01:00.0: PCI INT A -> GSI 18 (level, low) -> IRQ 18
> ib_mthca 0000:01:00.0: setting latency timer to 64
> ib_mthca 0000:01:00.0: SYS_EN command returned -22, aborting.
> ib_mthca 0000:01:00.0: PCI INT A disabled
> ib_mthca: probe of 0000:01:00.0 failed with error -22

I was able to recover the original firmware from one of my other cards:

# mstflint -d 06:00.0 ri fw-25208-4_7_400-MHGA28-1TC_A1.bin

And then burn that:

# mstflint -d 01:00.0 -i fw-25208-4_7_400-MHGA28-1TC_A1.bin -nofs burn

And now I'm back in business!


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Orion Poplawski
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