Chapter I. Unified Boot Option ROM
Chelsio Unified Boot 11
3. Flashing Firmware and Option ROM
Depending on the boot mode selected, Chelsio Unified Boot provides the following methods to
flash Firmware and Option ROM onto Chelsio adapters:
• Legacy mode: cfut4
• uEFI mode:
o HII
o drvcfg
o Firmware Manager Protocol (FMP)
These methods also provide the functionality to update/erase Hardware configuration and Phy
Firmware files.
3.1. Preparing USB flash drive
This document assumes that you are using a USB flash drive as a storage media for the
necessary files. Follow the steps below to prepare the drive:
i. Create a DOS bootable USB flash drive. (Click here for instructions)
ii. Create a directory CHELSIO on the USB flash drive.
iii. If you haven’t done already, download Chelsio-Uboot-x.x.x.xx.zip from Chelsio Download
Center
iv. Unzip the downloaded package and change your working directory to OptionROM directory.
[root@host~]# unzip Chelsio-Uboot-x.x.x.xx.zip
[root@host~]# cd Chelsio-Uboot-x.x.x.xx/OptionROM
v. Copy all the files and place them in the CHELSIO directory created on the USB flash drive.
vi. Plug-in the USB flash drive in the system on which the Chelsio adapter is installed.
vii. Reboot the system.
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