FlexBoot Updating Mezzanine Card Firmware

Rev 1.0

Driver Software and Firmware

Figure 14: Device Manager (example)

Note: If the cards are connected to a managed switch, there is no need to run openSM. Only one OpenSM should run per subnet.In InfiniBand interfaces, OpenSM is installed as a disabled Windows service. To enable it, enter at the command line:

>sc start opensm

4.2FlexBoot

FlexBoot enables remote boot over Boot over InfiniBand (BoIB), or Boot over iSCSI (Bo-iSCSI). This technology is based on the Preboot Execution Environment (PXE) standard specification, and FlexBoot software is based on the open source EtherBoot/gPXE project (see www.etherboot.org). For more information go to http://www.mellanox.com => Products => InfiniBand & VPI Soft- ware/Drivers => FlexBoot => User’s Manual.

4.3Updating Mezzanine Card Firmware

Each card is shipped with the latest version of qualified firmware at the time of manufacturing. Firmware is updated occasionally, and the most recent firmware can be obtained from: http://www.mellanox.com => Support => Download Firmware. Check that the firmware on your card is the latest found on the Mellanox site, if not update to the latest version found on the Mella- nox web site.

Firmware can be updated on the stand alone single card using the flint tool of the Mellanox Firm- ware Tools (MFT) package. This package is available for download, along with its user manual, from the Mellanox Firmware Tools page. See http://www.mellanox.com => Support => Download Firmware Tools.

A firmware binaries table lists a binary file per mezzanine card. The file name of each such binary is composed by combining the firmware name, the firmware release version, and the card part

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