Nvidia MCX545B-CCUN - Downloading Mellanox OFED; Installing Mellanox OFED; Installation Script

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Requirements Description
Device ID For the latest list of device IDs, please visit the Mellanox
website athttp://www.mellanox.com/page/
firmware_HCA_FW_identification.
Operating System Linux operating system.
For the list of supported operating system distributions and
kernels, please refer to the Mellanox OFED Release Notes
file.
InstallerPrivileges The installation requires administrator (root) privileges on
the target machine.
Downloading Mellanox OFED
Verify that the system has a Mellanox network adapter installed.
The following example shows a system with an installed Mellanox adapter card:
# lspci -v | grep Mellanox
86:00.0 Network controller [0207]: Mellanox Technologies MT27620 Family
Subsystem: Mellanox Technologies Device 0014
86:00.1 Network controller [0207]: Mellanox Technologies MT27620 Family
Subsystem: Mellanox Technologies Device 0014
Download the ISO image to your host.
The image’s name has the formatMLNX_OFED_LINUX-<ver>-<OS label><CPU arch>.iso.
You can download and install the latest OpenFabrics Enterprise Distribution (OFED) software
package available via the Mellanox web site athttp://www.mellanox.com> Products > Software
> Ethernet Drivers > Linux SW/Drivers > Download..
Scroll down to the Download wizard, and click the Download tab.
Choose your relevant package depending on your host operating system.
Click the desired ISO/tgz package.
To obtain the download link, accept the End User License Agreement (EULA).
Use the md5sum utility to confirm the file integrity of your ISO image. Run the following
command and compare the result to the value provided on the download page.
md5sum MLNX_OFED_LINUX-<ver>-<OS label>.iso
Installing Mellanox OFED
Installation Script
The installation script,mlnxofedinstall, performs the following:
Discovers the currently installed kernel
Uninstalls any software stacks that are part of the standard operating system distributionor
another vendor's commercial stack
Installs the MLNX_OFED_LINUX binary RPMs (if they are available for the currentkernel)
Identifies the currently installed InfiniBand and Ethernet network adapters and automatically
upgrades the firmware.
Note:The firmware will not be updated if you run the install script with the ‘--without-fw-
update’ option.
Note: If you wish to perform a firmware upgrade using customized FW binaries, you canprovide