[Gluster-users] OT: possible to upgrade mellanox HBA firmware from ubuntu?

[Harry Mangalam]

I can verify that the CentOS approach works as Dan described it with 
the caveats prefixed by ##hjm, using a testbed machine running a fresh 
install of CentOS6.

Thanks to Dan for such a nice outline.

hjm

On Tuesday 08 November 2011 12:11:44 Dan Cyr wrote:
> Harry,
> 
> I had these same problems when I upgraded my firmware.
> 
> Here's what I ended up doing (Centos6 or RHEL6 *not 6.1*):
> 
> If you use the default kernel: 2.6.32_71.el6 (don't run yum
> update), then you can use the kernel-mft RPM included with OFED
> (kernel-mft-2.7.0-2.6.32_71.el6.x86_64.x86_64.rpm)
> 
> yum -y install mstflint
> wget 
"http://www.mellanox.com/downloads/ofed/MLNX_OFED_LINUX-1.5.3-1.0.
0-rhel6-x86_64.iso" mkdir -p /mnt/iso

> mount -o loop MLNX_OFED_LINUX-1.5.3-1.0.0-rhel6-x86_64.iso /mnt/iso/ 
> yum -y install  /mnt/iso/RPMS/kernel-
mft-2.7.0-2.6.32_71.el6.x86_64.x86_64.rpm  --nogpgcheck 

##hjm: you need to install the mst app from the mft rpm that is
##hjm: distributed in the above iso image 
##hjm: sudo rpm -i /mnt/iso/RPMS/mft-2.7.0-20.x86_64.rpm

> mst start
> ls /dev/mst/ # Verify the proper device is there (*_pciconf?) - if
> there are none, this needs to be resolved before continuing.

##hjm: this worked fine:
ls /dev/mst/                                                                                                           
mt25204_pciconf0  mt25204_pci_cr0

> mkdir -p /usr/src/firmware
> cd /usr/src/firmware
> # My cards are SuperMicro UIO - replace the below commands
> appropriately #wget
> "ftp://ftp.supermicro.com/Firmware/InfiniBand/AOC-UINF-m2/aocuinfm
> 2_20090609.zip" #unzip aocuinfm2_20090609.zip
> # -allow_psid_change might not be required - check with you
> hardware vendor - For me I found this link:
> http://64.174.237.178/support/faqs/faq.cfm?faq=9803 #flint -d
> /dev/mst/mt25418_pciconf0 -i aocuinfm2_20090609.bin -nofs
> -allow_psid_change burn #reboot
===========================================================
##hjm: found this latest firmware upgrade. 
<http://www.mellanox.com/content/pages.php?pg=custom_firmware_table>

And once you get the appro package and download and unpack it, 
the VERY latest firmware needs to be created with mlxburn
like this: 
$ cd ~hjm/fw-25204-rel-1_2_940
$ sudo mlxburn -fw ./fw-25204-rel.mlx -dev /dev/mst/mt25204_pci_cr0 
-nofs

## and it seems to work:

$ flint -d /dev/mst/mt25204_pciconf0 q
Image type:      Failsafe
FW Version:      1.2.940 <-------------------VERY latest fw.
I.S. Version:    1
Device ID:       25204
Description:     Node             Port1            Sys image
GUIDs:           00066a0098006e5f 00066a00a0006e5f 00066a0098006e5f 
Board ID:        j (MT_0230000002)
VSD:             j
PSID:            MT_0230000002
===========================================================

so with that, the 


> 
> Good Luck.
> Dan
> 
> From: gluster-users-bounces at gluster.org
> [mailto:gluster-users-bounces at gluster.org] On Behalf Of Harry
> Mangalam Sent: Tuesday, November 08, 2011 11:45 AM
> To: gluster-users at gluster.org
> Subject: [Gluster-users] OT: possible to upgrade mellanox HBA
> firmware from ubuntu?
> 
> 
> Sorry for the OT, but this problem is preventing my further testing
> of gluster and this groups seems like they might know..
> 
> I've been looking into this for a few days and have not run across
> any success stories in upgrading firmware using Ubuntu (Mellanox
> supports RH and Suse), but I've tried to install the MFT/MST
> packages and it keeps erroring out for various reasons.
> 
> If it's not possible (or very painful), I'll upgrade the card
> firmware via a LiveCD/DVD of SciLinux or CentOS on another
> machine.
> 
> Other suggestions for upgrading the IB card firmware gratefully
> accepted.
> 
> Harry
> 
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> 
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> 
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