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Solarflare Server Adapter User Guide
Solarflare Adapters on Linux
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3.22 Upgrading Adapter Firmware with sfupdate
• Sfupdate: Command Usage on page 96 .
• Sfupdate: Command Line Options on page 98 .
• Sfupdate: Examples on page 99 .
Sfupdate is a command line utility to manage and upgrade the Solarflare adapter
Boot ROM, Phy and adapter firmware. Embedded within the sfupdate executable
are firmware images for the Solarflare adapter ‐ the exact updates available via
sfupdate depend on the specific adapter type.
See Solarflare Boot Manager on page 374 for more information on the Boot Rom
agent.
CAUTION: All Applications accelerated with OpenOnload should be terminated
before updating the firmware with sfupdate.
CAUTION: Solarflare PTP (sfptpd) should be terminated before updating firmware.
Sfupdate: Command Usage
The general usage for sfupdate is as follows (as root):
sfupdate [ ‐‐ adapter=eth<N>] [options]
where:
•
ethN
is the interface name (ifname) of the Solarflare adapter to be upgraded.
•
option
is one of the command options listed in Table 21 .
The format for the options are:
<option>=<parameter>
Running the command
sfupdate
with no additional parameters will show the
current firmware version for all Solarflare adapters and identifies whether the
firmware version within sfupdate is more up to date. To update the firmware for all
Solarflare adapters run the command
sfupdate ‐‐ write
Solarflare recommend the following procedure:
1 Run
sfupdate
to check that the firmware on all adapters is up to date.
2 Run
sfupdate ‐‐ write
to update the firmware on all adapters.
Sfupdate: Linux MTD Limitations
The driver supplied “inbox” within RedHat and Novell distributions has a limitation
on the number of adapters that sfupdate can support. This limitation is removed
from RHEL 6.5 onwards. The Solarflare supplied driver is no longer subject to this
limitation on any distro/kernel.