Firmware Upgrade; Linux Driver Installation; Prerequisites - Nvidia ConnectX-6 User Manual

MLNX_WinOF2_<revision_version>_All_Arch.exe

Firmware Upgrade

If the machine has a standard NVIDIA® card with an older firmware version, the firmware will be automatically updated as part of the NVIDIA® WinOF-2
package installation. For information on how to upgrade firmware manually, please refer to
If the machine has a DDA (pass through) facility, firmware update is supported only in the Host. Therefore, to update the firmware, the following must be
performed:
1. Return the network adapters to the Host.
2. Update the firmware according to the steps in
3. Attach the adapters back to VM with the DDA tools.

Linux Driver Installation

This section describes how to install and test the NVIDIA OFED for Linux package on a single server with a NVIDIA ConnectX-6 Lx adapter card installed.

Prerequisites

Requirements
Platforms
Required Disk Space for Installation
Device ID
Operating System
/v" SKIPUNSUPPORTEDDEVCHECK=1"
the MFT User Manual.
A server platform with ConnectX®-6 Lx (EN) (firmware: fw-ConnectX6 Lx)
1GB
For the latest list of device IDs, please visit the NVIDIA website
firmware_HCA_FW_identification.
Linux operating system.
For the list of supported operating system distributions and kernels, please refer to the NVIDIA OFED
Release Notes file.
MFT User Manual.
Description
at http://www.nvidia.com/page/
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