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1. an image to the Flash EEPROM attached to a Mellanox HCA or switch device Querying the firmware version loaded on an HCA board flint This tool burns a firmware binary image to the Flash es attached to an HCA board It includes query functions to the burnt firmware image and to the binary image file spark This tool burns a firmware binary image to the EEPROM s attached to a switch device It includes query functionsito the burnt firmware image and to the binary image file The tool accesses the EEPROM and or switch device via an I2C compatible interface or via vendor specific MADs over the InfiniBand fabric In Band tool Debug utilities A set of debug utilities e g itrace mstdump isw and i2c Detailed installation instructions along with complete descriptions of the various tools in the package can be found in the Mellanox Firmware Tools User s Manual Document no 2329 Rev 1 10 or later Additional MST tools are available via the MFT Windows installation These are mst Starts or stops the mst service which provides access to device configuration space and lists available mst device names used by the tools i2c Provides I2C compatible bus access via the mst devices mstdump For Debug Only This application dumps adapter internal configuration registers to the screen Run mstdump to get detailed help Mellanox Technologies Rev 2 5 0 4 1 2 Software Dependencies Table 1 MFT Software Dependencies2. on Windows Software Package Required Version 12CBridge 0 1 4 or later Dimax s Driver for USB to I2C Adapter WinOF 2 2 0 0 or later optional NOTE The tools package must also be installed as part of the WinOF installation 1 Visit http www diolan com to download this driver This driver is required for the first use of the MTUSB 1 device It is not required for MFT software installation 2 WinOF is required only for In Band access The package can be downloaded from www mellanox com gt Products gt InfiniBand SW Drivers 1 3 Supported Platforms and Operating Systems Supported Operating Systems and Service Packs Windows XP SP2 x86 x64 Windows XP SP3 x86 Windows Server 2003 SP1 and SP2 x86 x64 Windows Server 2003 CCS x64 Windows Server 2008 x86 x64 Windows HPC Server 2008 x64 Supported CPU architectures x86 x64 EM64T and AMD64 Mellanox Technologies Rev 2 5 0 Mellanox Firmware Tools MFT for Windows 2 Changes and New Features Table 2 Changes and New Features Component Tool Description Installation MFT user s manual and release notes files are now part of the MFT package All Added support for In Band device access This feature allows MFT tools to access Infini Band devices via the InfiniBand fabric using vendor specific MADs Note that this is the preferred access method to Mellanox switch devices as it is much fas
3. Mellanox TECHNOLOGIES Release Notes Se z Mellanox Firmware Tools MFT for Windows Rev 2 5 0 Mellanox Technologies Copyright 2008 Mellanox Technologies Inc All Rights Reserved Mellanox Firmware Update Tools MFT for Windows Release Notes Mellanox Technologies Inc 350 Oakmead Parkway Sunnyvale CA 94086 U S A www mellanox com Tel 408 970 3400 Fax 408 970 3403 Mellanox Technologies Ltd PO Box 586 Hermon Building Yokneam 20692 Israel Tel 972 4 909 7200 Fax 972 4 959 3245 Mellanox Technologies Rev 2 5 0 Mellanox Firmware Tools MFT for Windows 1 Overview These are the release notes for Rev 2 5 0 of the Mellanox Firmware Tools package for Windows The release notes include This Overview section which includes the subsections Package Tools on page 3 Software Dependencies on page 4 Supported Platforms and Operating Systems on page 4 e Changes and New Features on page 5 Known Issues on page 6 Bug Fixes on page 6 1 1 Package Tools The following is a list of the available tools in the package together with a brief description of what each tool per forms The tools apply to single Switch Systems or adapter cards but not to clusters mixburn This tool provides the following functions e Generation of a standard or customized Mellanox firmware image for burning in bin binary or img format Burning
4. a false warn 2 mlxburn Bad exit status on successful query opera When running mlxburn with a query flag it may return an exit tion value of 1 for a successful operation 3 All mst devices are accessible to all users Only system administrators can now access mst devices 4 Known Issues The following table provides a list of known issues and limitations in regards to this release of the Mellanox Firm ware Tools Table 5 Known Issues and Limitations Tool Issue Details Workaround To pe Fixed in All On Windows Server 2008 On Windows Server 2008 you need to install N A ONLY the MFT MSI with elevated administrator privi Installing and running MFT leges if UAC is activated tools require elevated adminis To install with elevated administrator privileges trator privileges when User right click over the MSI and select Run as Account Control UAC is acti administrator vated On Windows Server 2008 you need to run with elevated administrator privileges if UAC is acti vated To open a command shell with elevated admin istrator privileges Click start gt Programs gt Accessories then right click over Command Prompt and select Run as administrator Possible failure of some In When multiple MFT tools are executing opera Run In Band operations N A Band operations running in par tions in parallel via In Band devices some of serially or rerun t
5. he GUIDs on the Flash Similarly if only the guid s flag is specified only the new GUIDs are applied without change to the MACs on the Flash mst Added the command mst ib add which lists the connected InfiniBand device names This list can be used by the MFT tools for In Band accesses to the devices Note This command requires WinOF SW stack to be installed together with the tools package see Section 1 2 Software Dependencies on page 4 Added the commands mst start and mst stop which start and stop the mst service respectively Debug tools Added the mget_temp tool which displays the internal temperature of the device Applies to ConnectX and InfiniScale IV devices only 2 1 Deprecated Features Table 3 Deprecated Features lists tools and or flags that will not be supported starting on the next MFT release Table 3 Deprecated Features Component Tool Description flint mlxburn The following flags are deprecated psid vsd1 and vsd2 These flags will not be sup ported in the next release Mellanox Technologies Rev 2 5 0 6 Bug Fixes 3 Bug Fixes Table 4 lists the bugs fixed in this release Table 4 Fixed Bugs List Component Tool Issue Description 1 flint mlxburn Bad firmware version detection ing that the new image is older than current When burning a new image flint mlxburn may issue
6. he pro allel the execution processes may fail cesses that failed No MTUSB 1 support for 64 bit MTUSB 1 the USB to I2C compatible Bus N A N A architectures Adapter driver is provided for 32 bit architec tures only Support for multiple MTUSB 1 MFT supports only one connected MTUSB 1 N A Next devices device at a time release Rev 2 5 0 Mellanox Technologies Mellanox Firmware Tools MFT for Windows Table 5 Known Issues and Limitations Continued T Tool Issue Details Workaround i be Fixed in 5 flint mlxburn An active flint operation does flint ignores the user interrupt and only dis Wait for flint to finish Next not respond to user interrupts plays a warning If flint was killed you release CTRL C T flint is killed via the Task Manager win can either reboot the dow the Flash semaphore will not be machine or run flint released Consequently later flint operations with the will fail clear_semaphore flag 6 Burning querying via an When running mlxburn via an MTUSB 1 Use the qq flag to per N A MTUSB 1 takes a long time device a burn query command may take up to form a quick query five minutes to complete without any messages displayed This is mainly due to an extensive firmware image query that runs by default 7 mlxburn Unsupported flags on Windows The flags inband ul and vpd are not sup N A N A ported on Windo
7. ter and more flexi ble than access via the I2C compatible interface MTUSB 1 Added Mellanox InfiniScale IV switch support NOTE Use the mlxburn flint tool to burn InfiniScale IV switches This is unlike the earlier generations switches InfiniScale and InfiniScale II that are burnt using the spark tool The difference stems from the fact that the InfiniScale IV uses a Flash device to store the firmware image which is handled by flint or mlxburn whereas the older switch devices use an EEPROM for the firmware image whichis handled by spark or mlxburn flint mlxburn Added the quick query qq option When this flag is specifiedy a quick query that does not perform full image integrity checks is run This flag affects burn and query opera tions It is advised to use this flag when burning via an MTUSB 1 mst device to reduce burning time Note This flag is not supported for InfiniScale III based platforms The performance of firmware burning over the I2C interface has improved by 40 Added the swreset command that performs a SW reset on a target InfiniScale IV device This command is supported by the In Band access method only For ConnectX devices In the previous MFT version both mac s and guid s flags had to be specified to update one of the two In this version the mac s and guid s flags are independent If only the mac s flag is specified only the new MACs are applied with out change to t
8. upport for ignore is not Running wqdump with ignore ignores only N A Next complete the QPC gateway lock only and does not ignore release the OB gateway 1 See the In Band Access to Multiple IB Subnets Appendix in MFT User s Manual Mellanox Technologies Rev 2 5 0 7
9. ws OS 8 mst mst ib add cannot run on the In WinOF2 0 only a single application can bind Use another active IB port N A same ib port that opensm is run to an IB port at a time As a result opensm and or run mst ib add on a ning on mst ib add cannot run in parallel on the same host that does not run IB port opensm 9 Stopping the IB driver after run The following scenario hangs the IB driver Use another active IB port ning mst ib add hangs the 1 opensm is stopped using CTRL C or run mst ib add on a driver if opensm was stopped 2 mst ib add is run on the same port host that does not run earlier using CTRL C 3 driver is disabled via Device Manager opensm 10 mst ib add reports errors with When specifying the local IB port from which to N A N A shifted up HCA numbers scan the IB fabric the mst ib add command uses the IB driver s numbering scheme for HCAs which start at 0 However this command also invokes the ibdiagnet tool which starts HCA numbering at 1 As such error reports dis played by ibdiagnet will indicate HCA numbers shifted up by 1 11 wqdump Flag dump ICM may pro Running wqdump with dump ICM option N A Next duce a large file may produce a large file release 12 CTRL C does not clear sema CTRL C stops wqdump but does not clear If you clicked CTRL C Next phores release semaphores restart the driver to clean release the semaphores 13 S
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