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mstflint - Updating Firmware Using ethtool/devlink and .mfa2 File

mstflint - Updating Firmware Using ethtool/

devlink and .mfa2 File

In order to flash the firmware on the device using ethtool, you need to prepare a .mfa2 firmware file

using the mstarchive tool - seemstarchive – Binary Files Compression Tool. Note that mstarchive

requires installing mstflint with--enable-fw-mgroption.

To perform firmware upgrade using ethtool/devlink, follow the steps below:

Run the mstarchive tool to generate the .mfa2 file (the following example assumes

MFA2 v1.1.1).

# mstarchive -v 1.1.1 --bins-dir <source binaries directory> --out-file /

lib/firmware/<file_name>.mfa2

Obtain the interface name of the adapter for which you wish to update firmware. For

example, you can useifconfig -a.

# ifconfig -a

...

p5p1: flags=4099<UP,BROADCAST,MULTICAST> mtu 1500

ether ec:0d:9a:48:af:2a txqueuelen 1000 (Ethernet)

RX packets 0 bytes 0 (0.0 B)

RX errors 0 dropped 0 overruns 0 frame 0

TX packets 0 bytes 0 (0.0 B)

TX errors 0 dropped 0 overruns 0 carrier 0 collisions 0



p5p2: flags=4099<UP,BROADCAST,MULTICAST> mtu 1500

ether ec:0d:9a:48:af:2b txqueuelen 1000 (Ethernet)

RX packets 0 bytes 0 (0.0 B)

RX errors 0 dropped 0 overruns 0 frame 0

TX packets 0 bytes 0 (0.0 B)

TX errors 0 dropped 0 overruns 0 carrier 0 collisions 0

...

Burn the firmware using the .mfa2 image with ethtool/devlink.Please use the .mfa2 file

path relative to /lib/firmware.

ethtool command:

# ethtool -f <interface name> <file_name>.mfa2

devlink command:

$ devlink dev flash <dev> file <file_name>.mfa2

Query the adapter to verify that the new firmware version has been loaded following.

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