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Release Notes
These are the release notes for mstflint. mstflint supports Linux operating system. Please see the
supported platform table for further details.
The tools functionality is identical in all operating systems unless otherwise
noted.
Release Notes Update History
Revision
Date
Description
4.20.0
April 30, 2022
Initial release of this Release Notes version, This
version introduces
General Information
Package Tools
The following is a list of the available tools in the package, together with a brief description of each
tool. The tools apply to single switch systems or adapter cards.
The mstflint tools do not provide cluster wide functionality.
Category
Tool
Description
Operati
ng
System
Firmware
Update and
Configuratio
n
mstflin
t
This tool burns a firmware binary image or an expansion ROM image to the
Flash of a network adapter/switch device. It includes query functions to
the burnt firmware image and to the binary image file.
Linux
FreeBSD
mstco
nfig
Allows the user to change some of the device configurations without
having to create and burn a new firmware.
Linux
FreeBSD
mstfw
manag
er
The mstwmanager is a firmware update and query utility. It provides a
simple 'single click' firmware update functionality.
Note: The same tool with embedded firmware binaries is released
separately and is named mlxup.
Linux
FreeBSD
mstarc
hive
The mstarchive tool allows the user to create a file with the mfa2
extension. The new file contains several binary files of a given firmware
for different adapter cards.
Linux
FreeBSD
Debug and
Diagnostics
Utilities
mstreg
dump
Dumps device internal configuration data.
Linux
FreeBSD
mstmc
ra
Reads/writes a single word from/to a device configuration register space
Linux
FreeBSD
