Firmware • The firmware of existing network adapter devices will be updated if the
following two conditions are fulfilled:
• The installation script is run in default mode; that is, without the
option ‘--without-fw-update’
• The firmware version of the adapter device is older than the
firmware version included with the Mellanox OFED ISO image
Note: If an adapter’s flash was originally programmed with an
Expansion ROM image, the automatic firmware update will also
burn an Expansion ROM image.
• In case that your machine has an unsupported network adapter device, no
firmware update will occur and the error message below will be printed.
The firmware for this device is not distributed
inside Mellanox driver: 0000:01:00.0 (PSID:
IBM2150110033)
To obtain firmware for this device, please contact
your HW vendor.
4.1.3.4 Installation Logs
While installing MLNX_OFED, the install log for each selected package will be saved in a separate log file. The path to
the directory containing the log files will be displayed after running the installation script in the following format:
"Logs dir: /tmp/MLNX_OFED_LINUX-<version>.<PD>.logs".
Example:
Logs dir: /tmp/MLNX_OFED_LINUX-4.4-1.0.0.0.63414.logs
4.1.3.5 openibdScript
As of MLNX_OFED v2.2-1.0.0 the openibd script supports pre/post start/stop scripts:
This can be controlled by setting the variables below in the /etc/infiniband/openibd.conf file.
OPENIBD_PRE_START
OPENIBD_POST_START
OPENIBD_PRE_STOP
OPENIBD_POST_STOP
Example:
OPENIBD_POST_START=/sbin/openibd_post_start.sh
4.1.3.6 Driver Load Upon System Boot
Upon system boot, the Mellanox drivers will be loaded automatically.
To prevent automatic load of the Mellanox drivers upon system boot:
An example of OPENIBD_POST_START script for activating all interfaces is provided in the MLNX_OFED
package under the docs/scripts/openibd-post-start-configure-interfaces/ folder.
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